I'm ever so grateful to my mum for giving me near enough free reign in the kitchen to satisfy the majority of my experiments but some things really can't be justified for the simple pleasures of afternoon tea and cake or the delights of a pudding to follow dinner
I didn't have piping bags, so the swirls didn't work like I had planned--and then, one of the icing bags exploded WHILE I was icing the cupcakes, causing a bright red frosting eruption that was a huge mess, and THEN one of the cupcakes just fell over
I am obsessed with cakepops. Though we were at a different school in a very different place last year, I carried on with tradition and transformed my kitchen into cake pop central
) ) I thought I would share a few tips and tricks for getting the stuff needed to make cakepops. Once its melted, dip the tip of a lolly stick in the melted chocolate and insert it into the cake ball (not too far in, just about half way)
If you want to make less cakepops at a time, like I did, you can actually cut the cake into sections and freeze the leftover sections until ready to use
This has to be one of the cutest cakes I have ever made. I made the cake with peach soda instead of the water called for in the cake mix which added a subtle pop flavor
When the cake is cooked, remove from oven and unmold onto a plate. Grease a bundt cake pan (24 x 8 centimeters / (9 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches) with margarine and dust with some flour
The idea to make cakepops came from Rachel Allen's, Cake book. When my elder son came home from school at the end of September and was talking about they had prepared halloween cakes, and halloween drawings, and halloween mask I was getting suspicious this year we had to make our own Halloween at home as well, including baking cakes and muffins decorated with spiders or other symbols
Cakepops look simple to make but can sometimes be a challenge. Sign up for my simpleglutenfreekitchen blog and you’ll receive free recipes in your inbox
Cakepops is nothing but a lollipop made out of crumbled sponge cake, dipped in dark chocolate solution and decorated with colorful sprinkles to look appealing and attractive
If I’d known they were so simple I’d have made them ages ago. My girls have often asked to try cakepops but I always presumed they were difficult to make – surely an orb of sponge is fairly tricky with no gadgety cake pop maker
Cake isdone when it springs back to the touch. Ingredients1 cup white sugar1/2 cup butter2 eggs2 teaspoons vanilla extract1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder1/2 cup milkDirectionsPreheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
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