Another tow more days the long year end school holiday break will start for my elder boy. Their school is having a year end party today and at the same time celebrating Children’s Day.
Last year I made these 25 sandwich & konnyaku bento for the party, and this year guess what I tried my hands on? Cake pops & chocolate pops!
I’ve been admiring those cake pops from Bakerella (the founder of this cute way of presenting cakes) for so long and finally I had a chance to try it out. It was a public holiday over here yesterday so the timing is just nice for me to make the cake pops a day before the party (and most importantly I have one whole day to prepare some other food just in case I fail with the cake pops).
So these are the cake pops in progress – mashed butter cake, cream cheese icing, cake rolled into balls, melted dark chocolate (forgot to capture photo for the melted white chocolate).
Since this is the first time I tried making the cake pops, I actually spoilt 2 of them (which went straight into my kids’ stomach) before I familiarized with the chocolate coating technique.
I was so happy when I managed to get 24 good ones. Here are some of the designs I made for my cake pops. These are some black & white chocolate cake pops with sugar sprinkles and white chocolate doggies cake pop.
This is a closed up of one of the doggies. I used the heart shape sugar sprinkle for the nose and Koko Crunch cereal for the ears. The eyes and mouth are drawn with the melted dark chocolate. Cute?
These two are meant for the class teacher and her helper. I guessed adults would not fancy sugar sprinkles, so I just decorated the dark chocolate coated cake pops with some white chocolates lines.
I wrapped the cake pops with clear lollipop wraps and tied them up with wire and ribbons after the chocolate set.
In addition to all these cake pops, I made another 24 chocolate pops too which were so much simpler compare to the cake pops. They were all decorated with the Mickey & Minnie Mouse edible images which I bought from a friend’s bakery ingredient shop.
It was really fun making all these cake pops & chocolate pops. The boys were so happy dangling around me stealing my sugar sprinkles and chocolates! In fact I actually let my elder boy made some of the chocolate pops too. He was so excited about that and insisted to have his apron on. Too bad I forgot to take any photo of him in action because I was too busy guiding him. I didn’t let him play with the cake pops because if I were to do that, I guessed I won’t even get 24 good ones!
Now we had everything ready to go on the tray. I hope the kids will like the pops (not lollipops though) and wish them a happy Children’s Day!
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These pop cakes are awesome!!!
Deewi – Thank you! I had lots of fun making it too!
Wow, great job, Ai Ping!!
Carmen – Thank you!
i love cakes, i love chocolate, so definitely i will love your cake pops. haven’t tried it before. maybe someday
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Sysyl – It is fun, you should try it! Looking at me who is not a baker at all, I can do it on my first trial.
Thanks for passing me the award!
Eh? I thot hols oredi started. That’s why I was totally caught off-guard when my girl’s classmate told her Tue was last day of school (my girl was absent on Mon).
I followed Bakerella too and tried making them last year but then I couldn’t find any lolly stick here. So I made “cake bites” instead. Yours look AMAZING!!! Can I have one too?
Yeapies – Thanks and sure you can have one!
I know some primary schools starts holiday break since Wednesday, but not sure if it apply to all.
If you really can’t find the lollipop sticks and you need it, don’t hesitate to tell me, I can help to buy and send it to you!
They are so adorable!! I’m sure they are great hit among the kids.
food-4tots – Thank you! I hope they will like it, will check it out with my son when he comes home later.
Ohh cake pops! to cute! please share me your receipe.. hehe.. you mean we smash the butter cake as the base? interesting..
I am so tempted to try it out soon..
How lucky is JY’s classmates.. I bet they will be so happy!
I am making some goodies for E’s children party tomorrow too..
bobo – Sure, will email you the recipe.
Yup, smash the cake and mixed with the cream cheese icing until they can hold as a ball when you roll them up. So the taste is more like those truffle cake. You should try it, is really fun! I hope JY’s classmates will like them!
that is soooo cute! I want to make these!! So you just crumble the butter cake then mix with creme cheese and roll into a ball? Doesn’t look too hard to do… would you mind giving me step by step instructions?
Mrss P – Thank you! Yup, actually the rest is quite easy to do. The toughest part is to remain the pop on the stick when you coat it with chocolate. If not done properly the pop will break and fall off from the stick. Sure I’ll try to post the steps instructions, if not will email you yeah!
How I wish Mira could be one of JY’s classmate!! hahaha… Well done, mom!
Ming – Thanks! Next time when we meet I shall make Mira one yeah!
哇。。。如果我收到也会很开心的咯！！
仪仪妈咪 – 谢谢!
Fun Fun!
prince n princess mum – Yeah, we had a lot of fun making all these cake pops & chocolate pops!
These are cute!!! I am planning to make cake pops for my son’s classmate too…hehehe. I love the cake pops so much, they are super cute and suitable for kids. You bought Mickey edible images and I have Ben 10, so coincident!
Emily Ng – What a coincident! Again it proof that great mind think alike?
There was also Ben10 edible images but I landed on Mickey & Minnie because they are more unisex. I forgot to check how many girls and boys in the class but only the total number. So I better make something neutral.
It;s really amazing work ,i also like the cake pop but have no time to do it,but i don’t like the step of dipping the chocolate because last time i have tried to do almost same as the cake pop (but i didn’t add the cream cheese)and the chocolate couldn’t coated well .
I also like the chocolate pop,how do you do it?Do you need any mould to make the chocolate?How is the edible image look like?Do it like a paper?
Elaine – I did put it into the fridge for 5 minutes before I start coating the chocolate, maybe you can try this? For the chocolate pops, I made them by poring the melted chocolate in the round candy mold with a place where you can place the lollipop stick. The edible image look like paper, it is made with icing if not mistaken. I just need to apply a little amount of chocolate to stick it to the chocolate pop that already set.
Where do you buy the stick for the lollipop?
Elaine – I bought it from a friend’s bakery ingredient shop at Kepong Industrial Park. Are you in KL?
wow these turned out fantastic didnt they? great job! bet the kids loved them.
kelly – Thanks! I hope they love the cake pops & chocolate pops too!
nice cake pops! i’ve been wanting to try it out but never got around to it
must really kick myself to give it a try one fine day…hehehe…
karen – Welcome to KidsDreamWork and thanks for your comment! It has been on my list too for a very very long time since i discover it, and only put into action now
Wow, how crafty and darling these are!!
Jenn – They are so fun to make too!
way way way too cute! love that doggie one.
Tiffany – Thank you!
This is awesome idea. Thanks for sharing
Vanessa – Thank you!
Hi,
I m very interested in making d cake pop. Can u email d recipe with all the ingredients that u used n step by step instruction to the above mentioned email.
Thx very much.
Ay Choo
Ay Choo – Welcome to KidsDreamWork and thanks for leaving us a comment! I’ll email you the details for sure. You can refer here too for the recipe and steps http://www.kidsdreamwork.com/2010/11/19/cake-pops-chocolate-pops-how-to/.