Red Velvet Cake Pops

  Hello everybody!   This week's blog is baking! As you can see from the title I made red velvet cake pops, I'm going to say now they were veerrrryyyy difficult and mine didn't exactly go to plan. This bake definitely follows the quote "Practice makes perfect" - I can relate!!! If you are a beginner baker you would find it quite difficult, but it was an experience making them, so with that being said let's make CAKE POPS...

  

Makes: 46
Prep time: 1hr 30mins
Difficulty: Hard  

Ingredients:     
1 red velvet cake (sponge only)
1 quantity vanilla buttercream
600g white chocolate 
 46 red or white lollipop sticks     

Method:  
 1. Line a tray with non-stick baking paper. Break the velvet cake into rough pieces. Use your hands to rub the cake pieces over a large bowl to form small, even crumbs. Remove 60g of the cake crumbs and set aside.

   2. Add the buttercream (one tablespoon at a time) to the remaining cake crumbs and mix well until
evenly combined. Squeeze 1 tablespoonful of the cake mixture firmly so that it holds together and then roll it into a 3cm ball. Place on the lined tray. Repeat with the remaining mixture to make 46 balls in total. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until firm.

   3. Put the chocolate in a medium heat proof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, making sure the base of the bowl doesn't touch the water. Stir until the chocolate melts. Dip the end of a lollipop stick into the melted chocolate to coat about 2cm, then insert into a a cake ball and return to the lined tray. Repeat with the remaining sticks, melted chocolate and cake balls. Refrigerate for 10 minutes or until the sticks are secure. Reserve the remaining melted chocolate.

   4. To decorate, dip the pops one at a time into the remaining chocolate and gently tap the lollipop stick on the edge of the bowl to remove excess chocolate, turning as you go to create an even coating. (You may need to gently reheat the chocolate over a saucepan of simmering water if it is too thick for coating.) Sprinkle with the reserved cake crumbs then insert the sticks into a polystyrene block or similar to keep them upright. Refrigerate the pops for 10 minutes or until the chocolate sets.

   

That's all for this week! I hope you enjoyed. If you do this blog be very careful and please do send me photos on my Instagram (@ISayBell_blog) It doesn't look that difficult but it really was! It wasn't great on looks and the consistency was quite moist making it a bit harder to handle. However, it did taste very good! I will see you next week for another blog post! Love you all!
   Byyeee!!!!