WIKI NOTE: A cake pop is a form of cake styled as a lollipop. Cake pops can be a way of using up leftover cake or cake crumbs. The cake pop increased in popularity between 2009 and 2011. Cake pops can be found in many bakeries and grocery stores.
CAKE POPS FROM CHOCOLATE CAKE
- CHOCOLATE CAKE | VEGAN RECIPE
DRY INGREDIENTS:
1 and ½ cups wheat flour (plain or all-purpose)
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup panela sugar or unrefined cane sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
A pinch of salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon (optional)
1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips or cacao nibs (optional)
WET INGREDIENTS:
1 cup almond milk
¼ cup strawberry jam
6 tablespoons sunflower oil (any neutral flavored)
1 tsp vanilla extract
NOTE: Homemade measurement units
LET´S BAKE!
1. Preheat the oven to 180 º C. Grease a bread pan with margarine or veggie oil.
NOTE: Standard dimensions for bread and loaf pans start at 8 ½ by 4 ½ inches. It´s the perfect size for that amount of ingredients. If you multiply the amount by the number of times that you want, you will get a bigger cake. You have tons of different sizes of baking pans depending on the final amount.
2. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl: unrefined cane sugar/brown sugar, flour, baking powder, unsweetened cocoa powder and salt. Mix them well with a wooden spoon.
3. Combine wet ingredients in a bowl: red wine, strawberry jam, veggie oil, and vanilla extract until well-mixed.
4. Pour the wet mix into the dry bowl. Mix everything slowly with a wooden spoon.
5. Pour the mix into the bread pan. Sprinkle brown sugar on the top.
6. Bake for around 40 minutes, until browned.
NOTE: Don´t open the oven, you can always leave the cake in the oven for a few more minutes.
7. Remove from the oven. Leave to cool.
NOTE: Standard dimensions for bread and loaf pans start at 8 ½ by 4 ½ inches. It´s the perfect size for that amount of ingredients. If you multiply the amount by the number of times that you want, you will get a bigger cake. You have tons of different sizes of baking pans depending on the final amount.
2. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl: unrefined cane sugar/brown sugar, flour, baking powder, unsweetened cocoa powder and salt. Mix them well with a wooden spoon.
3. Combine wet ingredients in a bowl: red wine, strawberry jam, veggie oil, and vanilla extract until well-mixed.
4. Pour the wet mix into the dry bowl. Mix everything slowly with a wooden spoon.
5. Pour the mix into the bread pan. Sprinkle brown sugar on the top.
6. Bake for around 40 minutes, until browned.
NOTE: Don´t open the oven, you can always leave the cake in the oven for a few more minutes.
7. Remove from the oven. Leave to cool.
- LET´S MAKE CAKE POPS!
YOU WILL NEED:*vegan recipe
A bunch of lollipop sticks or wooden skewers
1/2 cup of margarine /*vegan margarine
1 cup of dark chocolate/*vegan dark chocolate, to dip
1/2 cup of margarine /*vegan margarine
1 cup of dark chocolate/*vegan dark chocolate, to dip
1 cup of white chocolate /*dairy-free white chocolate, to dip
Pastel rainbow sprinkles and/or tiny sprinkles, to sprinkle
STEP BY STEP
1. Once the cake is cool. Crumble it into pieces.
2. Melt the margarine in a small saucepan. Add it to the bowl and mix everything well until the mix is a bit sticky.
NOTE: Add more margarine if you need to, to make the mixture sticky enough. The mixture has to be clumped easily to make the little balls.
3. Shaped the resulting mixture into balls. Simple shapes such as spheres can be molded by hands.
4. Cut wide strips of cling film. Then cut the strips in half to make them square shapes.
5. The result should be a cake ball wrapped in a cling film. Make as many cake balls as you want.
6. Put them in a tray. Leave it in the freezer for a while, 30 minutes approx.
NOTE: The cake balls can be frozen to speed up the solidification process.
7. Take the tray out from the freezer, and wait for a while.
2. Melt the margarine in a small saucepan. Add it to the bowl and mix everything well until the mix is a bit sticky.
NOTE: Add more margarine if you need to, to make the mixture sticky enough. The mixture has to be clumped easily to make the little balls.
3. Shaped the resulting mixture into balls. Simple shapes such as spheres can be molded by hands.
4. Cut wide strips of cling film. Then cut the strips in half to make them square shapes.
5. The result should be a cake ball wrapped in a cling film. Make as many cake balls as you want.
6. Put them in a tray. Leave it in the freezer for a while, 30 minutes approx.
NOTE: The cake balls can be frozen to speed up the solidification process.
7. Take the tray out from the freezer, and wait for a while.
8. Put the chocolate chunks in a saucepan and warm gently. Stirring until it's all melted (the consistency of a soup).
NOTE: Chilling the cake balls and using this chocolate ensures that a cake ball never falls off the stick.
9. Dip your lollipop stick into the melted chocolate about one inch. Push the chocolate-covered end of the stick into the middle of the cake ball.
NOTE: Dip half of the cake balls into hot dark chocolate and half into hot white chocolate.
10. Dip each cake pop straight down into the chocolate until it is submerged and the melted chocolate touches the stick. Hold it sideways over the bowl and rotate it slowly as it drips until covered.
11. Dip and rotate each cake pop into a pastel rainbow sprinkles bowl until covered.
12. Pre-drill a guide hole with your skewer before placing each pop into your foam block to dry. Let it dry like this for a few moments.
NOTE: Chilling the cake balls and using this chocolate ensures that a cake ball never falls off the stick.
9. Dip your lollipop stick into the melted chocolate about one inch. Push the chocolate-covered end of the stick into the middle of the cake ball.
NOTE: Dip half of the cake balls into hot dark chocolate and half into hot white chocolate.
10. Dip each cake pop straight down into the chocolate until it is submerged and the melted chocolate touches the stick. Hold it sideways over the bowl and rotate it slowly as it drips until covered.
11. Dip and rotate each cake pop into a pastel rainbow sprinkles bowl until covered.
12. Pre-drill a guide hole with your skewer before placing each pop into your foam block to dry. Let it dry like this for a few moments.
13. Display them in a vase filled with decorative origami stars (optional).
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