Come Dine with Me #1 – The animation – Cake pops
Thank you all for your kind messages that touched me a lot and an especially warm welcome to new readers of my blog! Faced with the enthusiasm concerning my animation, I have no choice but to give you without further delay the recipe for "Cake pops", all the other recipes I made for my celestial dinner with be up starting next week. I'm really pleased that my animation was such a success. I take this opportunity to dedicate this message to my girlfriend Toya who had the idea and the many people who helped me prepare my dinner and my decorations!
First, small summary of what these "Cake Pops" are. The term "Cake pop" is a contraction of Cake and Lollipop and designates a ball of cake on a stick, covered in chocolate and decorated to resemble a sort of lolly cake. It is a trend derived from the cupcake trend and other pastries that English as well as American women love to decorate as much as taste! It's very easy to do, fun to try with children but you just need to plan ahead a little because there are several steps.
I discovered Cakes pops on a blog who specializes in them Bakerellathe blog is in English but it is worth taking a look if only for the pictures of the fantastic creations. I was part of the idea of balls cake dipped in chocolate and I tried two versions, one chocolate-based recipe from my favorite recipe of chocolate cake and another with my recipe for Cake with Pink Biscuits from Reims. The idea is then to decline indefinitely with any type of cake and all types of chocolate frosting. There is even a stick free version called "cake balls".
Admire my guests' work…
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Chocolate Cake Pops
For about 15 cake pops
Prep: 15 15 20 20mn
Cooking: 15min
Keep refrigerated: 30mn 1 h 1 h
Cake Balls:
- 200g of chocolate
- 125g salted butter
- 3 eggs
- 125g sugar
- 100g flour
- 125g cream cheese (like Philadelphia for example)
Equipment:
- 15 wooden skewers (the size you like)
- polystyrene or grapefruit halves covered with tin foil to plant the sticks on
Frosting:
- 300g chocolate to melt (here white chocolate)
- colored sugar balls or chocolate vermicelli
- food decoration ...
Prepare chocolate cake (Here THE chocolate cake): Melt butter and chocolate in the microwave (1mn30) or bain marie. Whisk eggs and sugar until the mixture whitens. Stir in flour and whisk again. Pour the melted butter and chocolate in
. Butter a cake pan and pour in the mixture. Bake at 180 degrees for 25-30mn. Cooking time is essential for cake pops, the cake should be barely cooked, so not too mooshy and not overcooked, in order to form the balls. Let cool a few minutes.
Preparing the cake balls : Unmold the cake and crumble it with your hands or with a blender. Add the cream cheese and mix by hand with the cake crumbs until you get a smooth paste (don't be scared to dirty your hands and don't panic if it's sticky). Then form about 15 balls the size of a golf ball. Place balls on a plate with a sheet of baking paper and let cool in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Adjustment on the skewers : Prepare the spikes by cutting skewers about 15 cm long with a pointed end and a flat end. Melt a few squares of chocolate in a microwave or in a bain-marie. Dip the flat end of each skewer in chocolate up to about 1.5 cm and then push it straight into a ball of cake about 5cm deep too. Then plant the lollipop cake thus formed in a block of polystyrene or half a grapefruit covered with foil (be careful no more than 4 / 5 per half grapefruit cake pops if you do not want it to collapse). Put the cake pops back in the refrigerator for 1 hour. The chocolate will harden and it will prevent the ball from rotating or falling from its skewer when you get to the icing.
Icing and decoration : Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt gently in a bain-marie while continuing to mix with a spatula. Dip the cake pops in the melted chocolate entirely and turn the skewer in your hand to eliminate the excess chocolate. Smoothen with a knife if necessary. Then sprinkle with colored sugar balls (chocolate vermicelli or any type of decoration) or leave it if you'll want to write on it with a food pencil later. Place it back on the structure and let it harden in the refrigerator at least an hour. Remove from refrigerator a few minutes before serving.
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Cake Pops with Pink Biscuits from Reims
For about 15 cake pops
Prep: 15 15 20 20mn
Cooking: 15min
Keep refrigerated: 30mn 12h 1h 1h
Cake Balls:
- 36 pink biscuits from Reims
- 200g butter, softened
- 150g of sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 to 3 tablespoons rum
Equipment:
- 15 wooden skewers (the size you like)
- polystyrene or grapefruit halves covered with tin foil to plant the sticks on
Frosting:
- 300g chocolate to melt (here dark chocolate)
- colored sugar balls or chocolate vermicelli
- food decoration ...
Preparation Pink Biscuit Cake : Break the biscuits into pieces and crumble to powder in a blender. Add butter, sugar, eggs and rum and mix it all. Harden in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Preparing the cake balls : When the pink biscuit preparation has hardened a little, remove from refrigerator and form then a couple of balls the size of a golf ball. Place balls on a plate on a sheet of baking paper and let stand in refrigerator for 12h. Be careful not to let the balls out of the refrigerator too long since they soften quickly.
Adjustment on the skewers : Prepare the spikes by cutting skewers about 15 cm long with a pointed end and a flat end. Melt a few squares of chocolate in a microwave or in a bain-marie. Dip the flat end of each skewer in chocolate up to about 1.5 cm and then push it straight into a ball of cake about 5cm deep too. Then plant the lollipop cake thus formed in a block of polystyrene or half a grapefruit covered with foil (be careful no more than 4 / 5 per half grapefruit cake pops if you do not want it to collapse). Put the cake pops back in the refrigerator for 1 hour. The chocolate will harden and it will prevent the ball from rotating or falling from its skewer when you get to the icing.
Icing and decoration : Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt gently in a bain-marie while continuing to mix with a spatula. Dip the cake pops in the melted chocolate entirely and turn the skewer in your hand to eliminate the excess chocolate. Smoothen with a knife if necessary. Then sprinkle with colored balls of sugar (or chocolate vermicelli or any other type of decoration) or leave it if you'll want to write on it with a food pencil later. Place it back on the structure and let it harden in the refrigerator at least an hour. Serve immediately after its time in the refrigerator.
congratulations,
You have very good ideas I'm trying to adapt to our local specialties.
Besides, if I can get ideas for presentation of some of our dishes can help me?
thank you and congratulations again
biz full of sunshine
Bravo for your meal I watched Tuesday night on M6!!!
It gives great ideas including marshmallows to cakes and the Mimolette pops I will do as soon as possible!!!!
Congratulations!
Test cakes pops on water l'divain!! Its makes me want to do too much and especially to decorate ;). I loved your dinner, franchmment, Respect. (Je m'incline ^ ^)
I really can not wait to make the cake pops that I would taste a cousin!!!!I hate to decorate. I think not to be equal with respect to your cake pops are really like as a great success. Just one question, is what you can do 24 hours before serving ?
your holding of almost perfect dinner the cake pops that make me think of lollipops . cutie!!!
Your cakes recipe pops me cracked !! Glad to come across your blog, I think I will try the recipe soon !!
Hello AnneSO,
Like many, I have discovered on Tuesday night, I laid the foundations before the cake-pops !!
This is it, mine are made, I have a
(Continued!!) I have a little hassle for the maintenance of wooden spikes. But ultimately I'm quite proud, I await the verdict of my guests !! I wanted to know if you ever try to freeze ? If so, at what stage ? Thank you for your advice. Continues to pleeeiiiinnnnnn revenue ;) !!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR BLOG !!
kisses.
Hello thank you for the recipe but I have two concerns, first is my frosting that I am, a white chocolate and 1 dark chocolate that does not want on the ball and running for 4-5 minutes … not practical at all, my second problem is that the ball does not want on the stick, then what is it in the fridge because my sticks are not quite right, I have a small pot … thank you in advance
@ All: Thank you all for your comments, I am delighted that the animation cake pops you have several!
Camille @: Yes no problem to make the cake the day before if you pop cans in the fridge well.
@ Charles: We need the cake pops are very cold when you plant the pike, you push out the pic in the cake pops, and the stings are well coated with icing. Then for the icing, wait for it to cool can be a bit before putting it on the cake pops. I hope it will help.
@ Ingrid: I think you can freeze them without any problems after setting picks. You can then thaw in the refrigerator a few hours before frosting.
@ Ines: You can replace the St St Môret Môret by the light but I do not think it works with cheese 0%, which may prevent the cake pops to solidify.
Can be replaced by the St moret cottage cheese (type 0%) ?
Thank you in advance :D
Your participation is an almost perfect dinner was great (almost perfect) and I think you should have won, your set was great, like your animation, and also your kitchen …. =)
Thank you for your fast response !!
My guests were speechless !! They fell in love ;) I even went so far as to offer my neighbors !!! Class ;))
THANKS AGAIN !!
hello,
I loved your recipe (the cake pops) I try it right away.
I found your blog on fat ” Almost perfect dinner “I liked a lot of table decoration, with the angels, it was pretty great !
goodbye
nano 11 years (who loves to cook !)
Kikou super benefits on m6 g hearts too, I wanted to know where you find all the different colors for the decoration of your cake pops in particular pencils food? merciii =)
Congratulations on your performance on M6 !!!
and your blog is very nice :))
As Doodoun, I would like you to give us 2 or 3 information on cakes for decoration pops (pencils food, flowers ect…) Preferences of the French sites (I found two but they are in English and I master poorly :/)
Thank you in advance for your answer, and soon your blog that I love :))
Hi :). Super performance on M6 and your blog is very nice.
I wonder if we could keep the cake pops because I'm going to do for a birthday but I will not have time to do today, can we prepare them the night before, and how to keep ?
Thank you in advance for your answer, and soon :)
Good evening, great idea for a birthday and I was successful bcp Congratulations it's a real treat. thank you
Great your recipe ! We feasted my mother and me !
Bravo for these recipes and also congratulations for your meal special angel as I have deco look for M6 and your meal was just perfect taste and with respect ais ais all I did and frankly hat!!!
hello anne sophie,
I found your recipes and I have to hate them but ca j would like to know where one could find decorations for cake pops!!!!
thank you very much
Awesome it's been a while now I was looking for this recipe is against it-with a hand blender (you know the trick to make soup !!) It works for crumble cake ???? Is what we can find food decorations etc Pen in France.????
Kisses to my AnneSo “processor model” (Ha Ha Ha)
Lucie 11 years
@ Lucy: If you do not have a mixer, it is best to do it by hand, I do not recommend the blender. Pens for food, you sometimes find in supermarkets in the baking department
I love this stuff is super cute
I found your recipes for dinner almost perfect super c thou me more than most
I have discovered through the program “Come Dine with Me”I congratulate you for the beautiful table decorations !
Your recipe Cake Pops is very good, but I would like to bring to college, I know where that found small bags cake pops, because I went to BHV and Monoprix, and n …
Thank you in advance
Daisy
Hello, AnneSO !
I commend you for your animation Cake Pops.
Its makes you want
Your blog is great
POuurai you give me an advice to our beautiful bllog I want to start (jai 14)
Good evening
I looked loop issuing a diner near perfect, and I found your dinner and entertainment on your cake pops, super awesome, I give you a 20… I wanted to ask if we could take a four-quart instead of making a chocolate cake (from the cooking method).
thank you for your advice…
Thank you for this recipe was excellent but a bit heavy
if I know how to do a beautiful frosting for mine was not great
thank you again
hello anne-sophie ! I have discovered during your dinner, you had
my favorite, you have to plien imagianation, and your dinner made me
enviher ! I do not understand whether that is winning ruben
and not you ! Then, I finished for the compliments but I still
even a small issue !can you make with a cake-pops
White Chocolate Frosting ?or the taste is really bizare ? it oui,
Id like to have the recipe for me and chocolate, its been 2 !
thank you, your fan favorite ! tatiipatatii
I've seen the redif of an almost perfect dinner last night jai have a favorite I love your recipes quickly eyeGO ness you have a good personality does not change cest super especially not what you do from now you're in my favorites for your suivres !!! good luck alizee a fan <3
Great ideas ! I would come in stitching together qq… Goods goods goods ;-) Otherwise a good plan to answer some of your fans (I can because I think I read that apart from supermarkets you did not know specifically where to find food pens…) I just visited a site that can help you develop the multitude of ideas that you already have, it is “thémadéco.fr” I'm sure you're a do-re-. Rates are low and hyper competitive and delivery charges only € 5.50 I think. There has Cultura offering some products “creative cuisine” but the comparison of price and variety of important products are final, even with the port (it's still my opinion !) Anyway, still, it's a real pleasure for eyes and taste buds that I would follow your blog !
Hello, I made cake pops your animation with girlfriends by customizing each cake pops, and it was a great success :) Thank you. Your recipes are original and make you want to cook ever.
Good luck.
Your blog is so beautiful tone is just sublime animations! Despite my young age (12 years 15 May, 2012), I love food that you do and sometimes I did yell at me ^ me by my mom because not everything can go as I wanted. In short, you're very beautiful and seductive I admire you a lot.
Thank you for your leadership and for your blog!!!
Hey I made cakes for the pop princess of my Birthday ! Not as nice as yours but enough to impress his cop's !!(re-re-re-…) Thank you for your recipes !
@ Maite: No problem to replace the chocolate cake with a pound cake, but then also replace the cheese with Nutella to give a little taste!
@ Jahna.Emma: The secret to a beautiful glaze is very gently melt the chocolate in double boiler over very low heat stirring constantly so that it is very liquid
@ Tatiipatatii: Thank you for your compliments! No problem to replace the dark chocolate with white chocolate, you can go see my recipe Cake cake pops for which I also use white chocolate
Alizee @: Thank you very much, I hope you find a good recipe ideas on the blog
@ Coco: Great if you found a good supplier of food decoration, it always amazes
@ Audrey: Cool the cake pops personalized, I understand that your girlfriends have loved!
@ Doudou: There APAS age to start cooking, it's great
@ Sam: Happy birthday to your princess. The cake pops it's great for kids
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Hello, I followed you on M6 and I loved the cakes I pop in again for my birthday, by cons for the cake I do not know if I should use dark chocolate or milk chocolate? You advise me what?
Thank you very much for the advice I'll try again right away :)
I'm getting married in September and I would love to do that, but how long it keeps?? How long I can make them ahead??
@ Sibel: You have to use dark chocolate to melt, milk chocolate may not provide enough taste
@ Jahna.Emma: Alors ça marche to?
@ HelloElOoO: Oh yes it can be great for a wedding! You can also go to my Cake with cake pops et mes Cake balls red velvet and even video Cake Pops to give you ideas of other perfumes, Glaze and presentation. For storage, you can make the balls up to 2 months in advance and stored in the freezer (be careful not simply a freezer, the temperature must be good to -26 ° or less). Then three days before the wedding, you thawed by leaving them overnight in the refrigerator 1. You put them on pikes, you ice and you decorate the two days before then you cans in the fridge and it should be fine (tested once before the technique to be sure). Once the glaze is dry, you can keep a flat, no need to have them on a support. You can even order online small transparent plastic bags to cover each cake pops like a lollipop and close with a pretty ribbon. I wish you a beautiful wedding!
Thank you this is nice
Great, thank you very much for the advice!!! I'll try that once I'm done beating me with making my urn ;) When I did the test I'll tell you what it gave.