Choc-A-Lot Cake Pops : I Love Cake January 2012

Happy New Year !!!

I received some lovely new cake creating gifts for Christmas

and have had some fun using these gorgeous items to create some new cake creations.

So with this in mind, this months I Love Cake theme is

NEW

It could be a new gadget you had that has inspired a recipe; a new cookbook (I had the Hummingbird Bakery one mmmmm!), a new healthy regime that means you need to make adjustments to your cake ingredients or just a recipe you have always fancied trying but haven't done so yet.

New Year, New You, New Cake

*linky is at the bottom of this post*

Here is my NEW cake recipe using both of my new kitchen gadgets and trying out cake pops for the first time - a new cake adventure for me

Choc -A-Lot Cake Pops

you will need:

a cake pop maker (see above but other brands are available)

125g butter

125g sugar

2 eggs

100g self raising flour

25g cocoa powder

2 tbsp milk

Decoration:

some pop sticks

cake decorations

good quality chocolate for melting (i used white and milk)

Methodar

cream the butter and sugar until pale and creamy

add the eggs, flour, cocoa powder and milk and mix together to make a creamy, smooth chocolately mixture

Heat up cake pop machine (takes minutes) and grease each hole with a little olive oil

add a heaped tsp of cake mix to each hole

close lid and cook for 4 minutes (you will need a timer for this)

lift up lid after 4 minutes and allow cake 'balls' to cool for about a minute

remove carefully (they are hot) and place onto cooling wire rack

melt some chocolate as you would normally (i place it in a bowl in microwave and heat at 30 sec intervals)

get your cake pop sticks and dip one end into the melted chocolate and then insert into centre of your cake 'ball'

once all cak pops have their sticks inserted, allow to cool completely 

Decorating

anything goes really. I rolled each cake pop into some melted chocolate and then rolled in a mixture of popping candy, mini marshmallows and chocolate shapes

then chill in the fridge for about an hour until the chocolate is set

its a really fun way of making little cake mouthfuls! 

even my OH who never helps me in the kitchen enjoyed helping and has even decorated an entire batch of cake pops himself (and they looked great but we ate them all before I had a chance to photograph them!)

Yum Yum!!

What NEW Cake recipes will you share?
linky is open until the end of the month