Photo: Present Pops
If you’re in to the cake pop craze, you are going to love today’s review and giveaway! It’s for the brand new book Crazy for Cake Pops! And I’ve also got a super fun Christmas recipe for Bauble Pops!
Cake pops are the hottest trend in baking and it’s easy to see why. With creative shapes and delightful flavors, they’re as fun to make as they are to eat. Crazy for Cake Pops teaches you the secrets for creating these mouthwatering mini treats like a professional baker. Packed with over 75 color photos, Crazy for Cake Pops leaves nothing to chance as it guides you step by step through each part of the process including baking, crumbling, shaping, frosting, and decorating.
My Thoughts: This is an awesome book! There are so many fun ideas! It features cake pops for any and all occasions for the entire year: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Halloween!
There’s also a bunch of ideas for birthdays, baby showers, and other parties.
It’s also the perfect book regardless of your skill level. The book explains all the different equipment and ingredients you’ll need to create these fabulous creations. Then it includes recipes for the different cake and frosting flavors featured in the book, followed by step by step tutorials or each design.
And you’ll be so inspired by all the fun colored photos, you’ll want to get started right away creating your own cake pop creations!
Recipe for Bauble Pops:
Baubles are beautiful party decorations for any time of year. Make them sparkle with a little edible luster spray.
Makes 20 pops
Ingredients
20 medium cake balls, chilled
¼ (14-ounce) bag each green, blue, pink and yellow candy melts
40 grams (2½ tablespoons) white fondant, kneaded
1 can edible silver luster spray
Equipment
4 disposable piping bags
Directions:
Make tops of baubles in advance: Split the fondant into 20 pieces and roll into balls with your hands. Flatten the balls slightly and make a hole through the middle of each one using the end of a lollipop stick. Leave to harden for a few hours.
Once hardened, spray with the silver luster spray. Leave to set overnight.
Melt each color of candy separately. Working with 5 cake balls per color, dip the end of each lollipop stick ¾ inch deep into the candy and insert a stick into each cake ball. Leave to set.
Dip each cake ball fully into the candy, shake off any excess and, while the candy is still wet, slide a bauble top down over the stick. Make sure the bauble top sticks firmly to the candy on the ball. Place on a sheet of parchment paper with the stick facing up.
Working with 1 color of candy at a time, pour each color into a separate piping bag. Cut a small piece off the tip of each bag and pipe designs onto the cake pops.
Once the candy has set, spray the cake pops lightly with the silver luster spray.
Photo: Snowman Pops
Buy it! Check out Ulysses Press to find out how to order the book online.
Win it! One Simply Sweet Home reader will win a copy of Crazy for Cake Pops.
To enter, just use the Rafflecopter form below. Giveaway will be open through Dec 5.
The baubles look divine & delish!
-caroline @ c.w.frosting
id love this. thanks.
Thanks for linking up to Take-A-Look Tuesday over at http://www.SugarBeeCrafts.com — you were featured today!!
Beautiful!
What a great giveaway…ciao4now64@yahoo.com
oh that book looks great, I love cake pops.
I have just begun learning how to make cake pops and making them are so much fun. This cookbook would be awesome to win. Elizabeth
elizabedu3@aol.com
Thanks for having cool giveaways!
They look like beautiful and lovely treat :), Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters
These are absolutely stunning! I pinned them, and am your newest GFC groupie!
So lovely!
Thank you for being a part of making last week’s “A Little Birdie Told Me…” at Rook No. 17 so rich in creativity and inspiration! Today’s party is in full swing, so please feel welcome to drop by and share your talent.
Yours,
Jenn
Love these! They are so beautifully decorative! New follower here. Would love it if you would stop by and share this at my linky party going on right now 🙂 http://everything-underthemoon.blogspot.com/2011/11/bedazzle-me-monday-10.html
Have a great week!!
These are beautiful! I just started making cake pops, and was wondering how I could make some classy ones from Christmas dinner! Thanks for sharing! Come over and visit me at http://www.palmettosandpigtails.com
-Shara
My daughter will have a heartattack over these!I am hosting my first ever blog hop this weekend and I would LOVE if you stopped by to link some stuff up!
Kim @ Too Much Time
http://kim-toomuchtimeonmyhands.blogspot.com/search/label/get%20schooled%20saturday
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