I first saw the concept of 'cake pops' on The Crazy Kitchen well over a year ago now and, while I was incredibly impressed with the inventiveness and finished result, I am just too messy a cook when it comes to presentation to even contemplate making them like that. Hats off to Helen, but I hate getting gloopy hands!
Then I saw that one of my other blogging friends had been given a cake pop maker for Christmas and, because I like kitchen gadgets, I instantly wanted one despite there being none in the shops due to it's popularity. Fast forward a few months and the desire reared its head again, yet again there were none. But yesterday I managed to pop into Lakeland and buy myself one for the sum of £19.99.
The recipe given in the booklet that comes with the maker is incredibly simple!
Ingredients:
- 125g softened butter
- 125g caster sugar
- 2 medium eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 125g self raising flour
- 2tbsp milk (although I only used 1tbsp)
- Beat together the butter and sugar in a bowl until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Beat the eggs in, one at a time, add the vanilla extract and mix to combine.
- Sift the flour in and mix, add some milk to make it smoother and beat well.
- Put a heaped teaspoon of mix into each well on the cake pop maker, close the lid and cook for four-five minutes until the cakes have risen, are firm and golden brown.
Then to assemble them, I dug a small hold into the underside of the ball and put a small amount of chocolate into the hole before pushing the stick in. This helps hold them in place. We dipped them in melted candy melts and then into a variety of sprinkles, marshmallows and fudge pieces.
This is where I wished I'd used chocolate rather than candy melts: they're too thick to dip and coat. I'd also not dip into the sprinkles, I'd pour them on.
However, they tasted very yummy and have gone down really well with The Boy and his friends this afternoon.
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these look great and i am thinking that i must use mine again maybe this weekend. they are so simple to make using the machine arent they? its just the decorating and getting the sticks to stay in place which I find a little tricky. and thanks for linking up x x
these look great….& the cake pop maker is much better to use when making them for children as they much prefer a ball of cake to a ball of truffle type mixture which cake pops are usually. I need to get mine out again & I think we'll just do what you did & dip the tops next time…much less messy!
Ooh! I want one!
Soooooo glad you got hold of a cake pop maker! I made them with a friend once, and took some home for my husband. He looked at me like I had 3 heads – "Why is my cake on a stick?!" Boys! I love them though, they are so dainty and pretty 🙂
That cake pop machine looks really good, I am a lazy icing person and use a lot of Betty crocker. They look really yumm!!!
The cake pop maker looks great, much better than squishing up the mixture and adding chocolate ( very messy )
Ah, you're a genius! We have one of these machines too and I always struggle to get them to stay on the stick! I used strawberry candy melts the first time I made them and found it far too sickly, and I used white chocolate cake covering another time, which looked very pretty at Christmas with edible glitter on to look like snowballs, but we're so sweet I think I was five minutes away from a diabetic coma!
I walked past Lakeland the other day and was tempted by this in the window- a lot more tempted now. It looks like you can have lots of fun with this!!
These look great – I'm thinking of doing a 'bubbles' theme for my twins' birthday in November and these may be featuring now!
This looks like fun! I was in Lakeland today, remembered our Twitter conv and so nearly bought the kit. Wish I had now!
Great idea and they look so appealing!
those look yummy!
These look amazing, I am off to buy a machine now
these look yummy, the ones I made were far too sweet, I think the sponge balls would taste much nicer.
Yummy!! So fun!! I want one of those.
I would love one of these, I have the mini cupcake one and it's a lot of fun x
Those look awesome x
This is going on my xmas list for sure x