While making 3D cakes, you get a lot of cake crumbs and pieces. While I prepared the Pongal Pot Cake, there was a lot of cake and butter cream left over after the completion of the cake. The next day holidays started and I couldn’t do any thing with it. I just placed the cake and the crumbs in a zip lock bag and refrigerated it. Today, I took them out in the morning and brought them back to room temperature. Preparing cake pops is quite interesting. My daughter is a great fan of these chocolate coated beauties. I prepared cake crumbs by grinding the cake pieces in mixer grinder, added the remaining icing to it and made a crumbly dough. Then I shaped it into balls, refrigerated them, coated them with chocolate and decorated with melted chocolate. My daughter came home to find these delicious cuties and was so happy. She couldn’t stop munching it. I have to stop her from polishing the dish off.
Procedure: 1. Grind the cake to fine crumbs. 2. For 2cups of crumbs, add 1/4cup of butter cream icing. 3. Mix till the crumbs become a crumbly dough. 4. Shape into 12 lemon sized balls. 5. Refrigerate for an hour. 6. Melt chocolate in a double boiler as shown here. 7. Remove from heat and mix well. 8. Drop a ball into the melted chocolate and coat it completely with the chocolate. Use a fork or spoon to do this. 9. Remove the ball from chocolate and place on a butter paper. 10. The chocolate will harden in 5-10minutes. 11. If the chocolate becomes thick heat it again in the boiler until it comes to coating consistency. 12. Prepare a paper cone and pour the melted chocolate into it. 13. Snip the end with a scissors and move the cone in a zig zag movement on top of the balls. 14. Allow it to harden. 15. You can serve it until serving.
These were the cake and crumbs which were lying in fridge for 5 days
Grind it to get a fine crumb.
Add 1/4cup of cream to 2cups of crumbs. I refrigerated the remaining crumbs in a zip lock bag.
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You are a superwoman and your daughter is just too lucky to have you! 🙂 I seriously can imagine how your daughter would have fallen for them at the first glance itself and she must be saying to her friends: ‘My mom is very sweet and talented’. 🙂
Wow this is really beautiful. I thought they were store brought at first.Then knowing how creative I guessed they were made by you. Look absolutely Beautiful.
Hello mam. Thanks for the recipe. I have tried this but the coated chocolate is not set at room temp and then Ikept the balls in the freeze for 5 min but after that water droplets are come on the chocolate. Can u plz explain why this happen
Chocolate should be kept in fridge. And if overheated during melting, it won’t set properly. If using coverture, you need to temper the chocolate before using.
Thanku so much mam. Yes, I m using couverture chocolate. I really don’t know about the tempering process. If you have any video on tempering process please do share. Again Thanku so much.
Those are lovely cake pops! I’m drooling here myself…
Wow looks delicious…yummy cake pops
wow this is so yummy pops,luks so tempting…
You are a superwoman and your daughter is just too lucky to have you! 🙂
I seriously can imagine how your daughter would have fallen for them at the first glance itself and she must be saying to her friends: ‘My mom is very sweet and talented’. 🙂
wow thatz really lovely….have to try this soon superb recipe…..bookmarked
This recipe is so good…Mouthwatering Dear..
Aarthi
http://yummytummy-aarthi.blogspot.com/
Mouthwatering here, wat a terrific and super tempting pop…..
simple easy and so yummy
Wow this is really beautiful. I thought they were store brought at first.Then knowing how creative I guessed they were made by you. Look absolutely Beautiful.
Wat an elegant and super tempting cake pops Gayathri,well done.
beautiful looking cake pops and presentation
Wow the look of it makes me want to taste them! They look very professionally made 🙂 Love it
Falling in luv with them…….will have to try soon.
looks awesome…:) thanks for linking it to my event ‘ Chocolate lover’
Creative chocolate pops n truely looks chocoholic n mouthwatering dear…
Looks very yummy…Loved the way you have decorated them…
This looks so good.
these look gorgeous and what a great idea!
Wow, so perfectly made, Gayathri…very neat and pretty
These look delicious and so delectable, thanks for linking with let’s cook with left overs.
wow so beautiful pops !! loved them !! thanks for linking to the event !!
Ongoing Event – CC-Chocolate Fest
Delicious! my mouth won’t stop watering :D. thanks for your entry to Love Lock with Sweets Part2
Little chocolate cake pops! These looks really lovely! I’ll definitely make this for my friends birthday!
Hello mam. Thanks for the recipe. I have tried this but the coated chocolate is not set at room temp and then Ikept the balls in the freeze for 5 min but after that water droplets are come on the chocolate. Can u plz explain why this happen
Thanks
Chocolate should be kept in fridge. And if overheated during melting, it won’t set properly. If using coverture, you need to temper the chocolate before using.
Thanku so much mam. Yes, I m using couverture chocolate. I really don’t know about the tempering process. If you have any video on tempering process please do share. Again Thanku so much.
I haven’t done a tempering video yet. Will make one soon.