Minnie Mouse Silhouette Cake Pops
You'll need:
- 1 box cake mix (bake as directed on box for 13 X 9 cake)*
- 1 16 oz can of ready made frosting
- Wax paper
- Baking sheet
- White candy coating / bark coating
- Black candy color
- Chocolate candy melts
- Round cookie cutter
- Heart candies or heart sprinkles
- Paper lollipop sticks
- Styrofoam block
*One cake makes about 48 cake pops. If you don't need that many, then cut the cake in quarters and freeze any cake sections for another day. You'll need at least one ounce of candy coating for each generic Minnie Mouse cake pop you plan on dipping and more for any extra decorating.
Instructions:1. After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into a large bowl.
2. With a large spoon, mix thoroughly with about 3/4 of the can of frosting. You won't need the rest.
3. Roll mixture into quarter size cake balls and place on a wax paper covered baking sheet. |  |
4. Place cake balls in the freezer for about 15 minutes to firm up. Then transfer to the refrigerator to keep chilled and avoid freezing.
5. Prepare the ears. Use round chocolate candy melts and with a round cutter, cut off a small portion of each candy melt. Set the ears aside. |  |
6. Melt white candy coating in a heat-proof plastic bowl so that the coating is at least four inches deep for easier dipping. Melt in the microwave in 30 second intervals on low, stirring in between. Repeat until melted and smooth. |  |
7. Add several drops of black candy color (this does not contain water) into the white candy coating and stir until combined. Add color until you achieve the desired shade.
8. Remove a couple of cake balls from the refrigerator at a time to work with.
9. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted coating and insert into the cake ball. Then, grab two candy melt ears and dip the cut side into the melted candy coating. Attach the ears to the top/side of the cake pop and the coating will set like glue. |  |
10. Place in a styrofoam block to dry.
11. When dry, carefully dip the entire cake pop with ears attached into the bowl of melted candy coating. Dip and remove in one motion without stirring. Make sure the entire cake ball is covered. Using a deep bowl is helpful here. If your coating is too thick, you can add a few drops of vegetable oil or shortening to help thin it and make it easier to work with.
12. Remove and allow any excess coating to fall off the pop and back into the bowl.
13. Place in a styrofoam block to dry.
14. Create Minnie Mouse's bow by applying a small amount of leftover candy coating to the top of Minnie's head. Attach two candy hearts or jumbo heart sprinkles and on red rainbow chip sprinkle in between. |  |
15. When dry, wrap in small treat bags and tie with a decorative ribbon.
Note: You can use dark chocolate candy coating instead of tinting white coating black. Then, you can use the same glueing technique to attach the ears right on the surface.
You can also attach other items like Junior Mints or separated miniature Oreo Cookies to the surface of the cake pop right after dipping and before the coating sets.
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Member Comments On...
Minnie Mouse Silhouette Cake Pops
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I made these for my daughter's birthday, they were a huge success. They are very time consuming and do not use heavy cake mix. I tried with devil's food cake it it just fell right off the stick when i went to drip them. But the vanilla ones came out great!!!
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So I am a working mom of two with very little spare time. I wanted to try these for my daughter's second birthday but I was hesitant. I am SO GLAD I decided to do it! I made a chocolate cake mix into two round pans and just used one of the cakes and 1/3 can of icing. I used dark melting chocolate with no coloring. They turned out great. The whole process took one entire evening (2-4 hours) and made 20 pops. I will definitely make cake pops again- what a hit!
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