I have been looking at all those recipes of cake pops and been rather impressed by the idea of making a dry cake much softer with cream cheese.
Plus I have been very impressed by the idea that they are often covered by white chocolate, which I love.
So what a dear combination. Had to try them.
What a better occasion to do so than for the traditional yearly pre-Christmas party with the same group of friends?
Thought I should bake the cake in advance, but the whole day yesterday turned out to be more of a pure chaos than a preparation day... Started the night in the ER, slept the whole morning until one o'clock, ate and stressed to the pharmacy to buy necessary stuff for my puffy eyes, ran to the Christmas concert and concluded with a nice and cosy Indian style dinner with my dear friend! Or no... Not really... Concluded it with a shopping tour at the local ICA to buy stuff for my cake pops and meatballs.
Baking started far too late anyway this morning. Thanks to the whether Gods, it was -16 degrees Celsius outside so the cooling down went quick: I simply dumped my cake on the balcony in the snow and it cooled down all right... :O) And so did the small cake pop balls... :) Quick! Happy no chick'ns were around just then....
Matilda took this picture as I had no time to do so myself before leaving the house. So now my blog can be proud to present a pro picture.... :O)
Just as a comment: I am not sure about the concept. It tasted more like a "chewed cake" somehow. No, not so sure it was as I expected it. Plus it did not get to be a real cake pop but rather an inverted cake pop as the stick was over it rather than where it should have been. And I think the chocolate I used was far too dark. Probably it would have tasted better if I had had some milk chocolate or white chocolate instead...
2 dl sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 dl flour
65 gr butter
1 dl milk
200gr cream cheese
200gr dark chocolate (but I rather recommend white or milk chocolate instead)
Some decorating white (or if using white take dark chocolate for decoration)
Instructions
Turn on the oven at 175 degrees Celsius (same temperature with and without ventilation). Butter up the pan and also put some flour at the bottom. I personally forgot but it was hell to get it out of pan later.
Mix the eggs and sugar to a fluffy mix. Mix together the flour with vanilla sugar and baking powder. Add the dry ingredients into the fluffy mix and add the very soft (or even melted butter) as well as the milk into the mixture.
Bake the mixture for about 40 minutes with the cake at the bottom of the oven.
Cool down the cake.
Mix the cake with cream cheese. I even added some cream cheese frosting, just to add some additional taste (it sounded very boring without any such sugary mixture...)
Do small balls out of the dough. And chill for a while.
Then melt the chocolate and make sure that you drop into it all balls.
If you asked the pros, they would say stick the pin somewhere so the guys can stay. But that I did not bother. I put them on a pan and was happy with it... Decoration was done with some toothpicks for the first batch as I had no time to find the beaks for the suitable tool. But then after I came home I found the beak and used it for further cake pops.
What to say about the guys? Not sure. Probably something needs to be done next time to give them more taste. Still not sure it is a good idea to just mix the guys up that way. Mh... I'll have to think about it a couple of times before deciding how to approach this recipe again! Anyway, I did not enjoy them this time.... :O(
Hey, baking is a bitch these days.... :O(
Plus I have been very impressed by the idea that they are often covered by white chocolate, which I love.
So what a dear combination. Had to try them.
What a better occasion to do so than for the traditional yearly pre-Christmas party with the same group of friends?
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| Inverted cakepops forgotten in the fridge... 25/12-2012 |
Baking started far too late anyway this morning. Thanks to the whether Gods, it was -16 degrees Celsius outside so the cooling down went quick: I simply dumped my cake on the balcony in the snow and it cooled down all right... :O) And so did the small cake pop balls... :) Quick! Happy no chick'ns were around just then....
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| Inverted cakepops in action 9th of December 2012 |
Just as a comment: I am not sure about the concept. It tasted more like a "chewed cake" somehow. No, not so sure it was as I expected it. Plus it did not get to be a real cake pop but rather an inverted cake pop as the stick was over it rather than where it should have been. And I think the chocolate I used was far too dark. Probably it would have tasted better if I had had some milk chocolate or white chocolate instead...
Ingredients
2 eggs2 dl sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 dl flour
65 gr butter
1 dl milk
200gr cream cheese
200gr dark chocolate (but I rather recommend white or milk chocolate instead)
Some decorating white (or if using white take dark chocolate for decoration)
Instructions
Turn on the oven at 175 degrees Celsius (same temperature with and without ventilation). Butter up the pan and also put some flour at the bottom. I personally forgot but it was hell to get it out of pan later.
Mix the eggs and sugar to a fluffy mix. Mix together the flour with vanilla sugar and baking powder. Add the dry ingredients into the fluffy mix and add the very soft (or even melted butter) as well as the milk into the mixture.
Bake the mixture for about 40 minutes with the cake at the bottom of the oven.
Cool down the cake.
Mix the cake with cream cheese. I even added some cream cheese frosting, just to add some additional taste (it sounded very boring without any such sugary mixture...)
Do small balls out of the dough. And chill for a while.
Then melt the chocolate and make sure that you drop into it all balls.
If you asked the pros, they would say stick the pin somewhere so the guys can stay. But that I did not bother. I put them on a pan and was happy with it... Decoration was done with some toothpicks for the first batch as I had no time to find the beaks for the suitable tool. But then after I came home I found the beak and used it for further cake pops.
What to say about the guys? Not sure. Probably something needs to be done next time to give them more taste. Still not sure it is a good idea to just mix the guys up that way. Mh... I'll have to think about it a couple of times before deciding how to approach this recipe again! Anyway, I did not enjoy them this time.... :O(
Hey, baking is a bitch these days.... :O(
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