How to… make Hello Kitty Cake Pops

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I am soooo excited about today’s guest post as it kills two wonderful birds with one stone. Mmmh that is a dreadful metaphor – as you don’t really want to be killing birds.. ok, anyway, I digress.. I have been seeing lots of yummy and delicious cake pops appearing on all the wonderful craft blogs. Cake pops are not really “big” here in the UK – yet. When I saw some at one of our coffeeshops, I thought.. right, it is time… time to have a “how to make Cake Pops” tutorial! Not knowing how to make cake pops myself I went out and had a little look and found a wonderful website: Nadège from Prunille Puts on A Show – you will find delicious recipes on her blog (including some royal biscuits) some party ideas as well as many crafts. Rather a lot to inspire you! I think her blog is a real find and that you will enjoy it too! Not only did I find cake pops, but Hello Kitty cake pops! They are SOOOOO cute! And you know, they are not that hard to make!

Over to Nadège:

The cake pops, the idea is that a cake is crumbled and then tied with cream to make a paste. That is the basic principle. Now the cake  may be plain, chocolate or any flavour. You can also use homemade or store bought – I used Bretonne Cake. The cream can be: chocolate mousse, ganache, cream cheese, cottage cheese, spreads …

Ingredients for 8 Cake Pops:

  1. Cake (any type, bretonne cake used here – like a madeira cake) – approx 250grammes
  2. Binding “agent (here we use nutella and cream cheese)
  3. Chocolate melted (here: white chocolate) – [A FAB TIP FROM TWITTER: use Wilton candy melts – they come in lots of colours and are easier to handle!]
  4. Lollipop sticks

For Hello Kitty:

  1. Chocolate drops (ears)
  2. Confectioners confetti (yellow for nose & pink for bow)
  3. Heart shaped confectioners confetti (pink for bow)
  4. Dark food colouring for eyes and whiskers

 

Instructions

1- Take 1/4 of a bar bretonne cake (or a cake of your choice)

2- Crumble it

3 – Add 2 large tablespoons of Nutella and 2 large teaspoon of cream cheese

4 – Knead to make a compact dough.

Now we must form balls. Roll a large knob of dough between your hands or on a countertop.

Then refrigerate the harden the balls. Dip a stick into a little bit of melted chocolate and plant it in the dough. Let harden again.

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Then the basic principle is the same for all “cake pop”, you have to melt chocolate (white, black or even candy melts or prepare a thick royal icing …) and dip the ball in it to totally cover it.

[So, at this point, you could stop and decorate with hundreds and thousands, chocolate sprinkles or different chocolate glazes:

Cheesecake Pops

Like these Cheesecake Cake Pops.]

But we DO rather LOVE Hello Kitty:

Explanations especially for Hello Kitty cake pop:

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1) For the nose use a tiny piece of yellow edible confetti (apply with tweezers)

2) For the bow use two heart shaped confetties one round piece

3) Add whiskers and eyes with food colouring and a small brush

Inspired by Bakerella of course – I don’t know if she invented cake pops, but she is the queen of them now!

photos moi et Laurianne Laine

étiquettes :Bird crafts

Now isn’t Nadège simply something!? If you enjoyed this post, you MUST go and visit  Prunille Puts on A Show and see all the other wonderful things she makes and shares with us!!

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