Tutorial: It’s an Emoji cake pop party!

 These have got to be the most popular cake pops we’ve ever made at Molly Bakes. They were created a few weeks ago for amazing fashion designer Mira Mikati and already we’ve been asked to remake them a gazillion times by our super cool customers.

Here’s how to make them at home, this recipe is assuming you have made cake pops before or know how to make them. A basic cake pop recipe and tutorial will be added shortly.

You will need;

10 ready prepared cake balls, chilled

One pack yellow candy melts

A cake pop stand or cake dummy with holes

Large red heart sprinkles

10 Cake pop sticks

Dusting powders – black, white, blue, pink

Confectioners glaze

Selection of paint brushes and palette

Method;

It’s a good idea to have a picture of emojis or your iphone handy to look at.

Melt the candy melts as per the pack instructions and insert a stick into the each cake ball.

Dip each cake pop into the candy melts and place on a cake pop stand or polystyrene dummy to dry.

While the cake pops are still drying take two of them and place two of the heart sprinkles on one cake pop where eyes should be and place one heart sprinkle on the other where the mouth should be.

To use the dusts as cake pop paint, cover the palette with cling film. This will ensure the confectioners glaze doesn’t stain your palette as it’s a real bugger to remove – same goes for furniture, best to try not to get it on there. Mix a little of each dust with a tiny amount of glaze to create a fluid paste. It shouldn’t be too thick or too liquidy. Prepare each colour as you go as this stuff dries really quick.

Next, paint all the white bits – any whites of eyes, teeth etc. Then paint the black bits such as eyes, mouths, sunglasses and expressions. Paint the tears on the crying with laughter cake pop with the blue. I actually mixed eucalyptus with ocean blue to get the right colour. Then using a thick brush use dry pink powder to make blush marks.

And there you have it – the most fun cake pops ever! You can literally try out so many of the different emojis, these were just my personal faves.

Pics by Zoe Flammang

Afternoon Tea Cake Pops

Afternoon tea has never been more popular. What could be a more fitting companion than your very own tea party set of cake pops?

Makes 10 teapots and 10 cups and saucers

Ingredients

20 medium cake balls, chilled
400g (1 bag) white candy melts
100g sugarpaste, kneaded and tinted pink Edible glue
1 bottle white cocoa butter
1 tube edible dusting powder

Equipment

rolling pin
3.8cm round fondant cutter
2 paintbrushes (1 thin, 1 medium) Artist’s palette

Make in advance

Saucers: roll out half the sugarpaste to 4mm thick and cut out 20 circles with the

fondant cutter. Using the end of a lollipop stick, poke holes the same size as the sticks into the middle of the circles.
Handles: roll out a long, thin log shape of half the remaining sugarpaste. Cut out 10 x 4cm-long pieces for the teapot handles and 10 x 3cm-long pieces for the teacup handles. Form each handle into a ‘C’ shape.

domed lids and knobs: using the remaining sugarpaste, roll 10 x 2.5cm-diameter balls of sugarpaste with your hands. Cut off the top third and bottom third of each

ball – this will give you 20 domes for the lids. Roll 20 x 5mm-diameter balls for the knobs, using your hands, and glue to the top centre of each dome, dabbing on the edible glue with the thin paintbrush.

For the teapots

Take 10 of the chilled cake balls and separate a small (2g) piece of mixture from

each ball. Re-roll the larger balls and squash the bottom of each ball down flat.

For the teapot spouts, take the 10 x 2g pieces of cake pop mixture and roll each

piece into a log shape with your thumb and forefinger. Shape it so that one end of the log is thinner than the other. Set aside in the fridge.

For the teacups

Take the remaining 10 chilled cake balls and place on a flat surface, pushing

the bottom of each ball down on the surface. You want the top of the cups to be

completely flat, so push down and smooth the sides down until you get a half-ball shape. Set aside in the fridge.

Melt the white candy melts. Remove the teacup and teapot shapes from the

fridge. Using a cocktail stick, dab a little candy on the thicker end of the spouts and attach them to the teapots. Make sure they are facing the right way up.

Dip the end of each lollipop stick 2cm deep into the candy. Insert a stick into the flatter end of each teapot and into the round end of each teacup.

Dip each teapot fully into the candy. Be extra gentle so that the spout doesn’t fall off. Attach the lids to the teapots before the candy sets.

Next, dip each teacup into the candy and attach the saucers to the bottom of the teacups by sliding them up the sticks.

Insert each cake pop into a polystyrene block to dry – 1–2 minutes per pop.

Once the cake pops have dried, attach the handles by using a small dab

of candy on a cocktail stick to secure them.
Melt the cocoa butter and tint 1 teaspoonful with the dusting powder. Use the

thicker paintbrush to paint beautiful vintage-style patterns on the teapots with the cocoa butter. Keep it simple – dots, swirls, stripes all look really cute.

From my book Cake Pops (Square Peg, 2011)