Hi everyone :)
So I have been getting my baking on again lately. Quite a lot to be honest and I thought there were some good enough things produced so I should really not keep them from you.
I wont put up all the recipes today and spread them out over the weekend Maybe you can find some things you would like to try :) I always feel inspired after reading blogs about food :D
I tried making Cake Pops and by tried I mean I got so annoyed at one point I just wanted to through them all out haha.
Maybe not my brightest hour of baking but hey....
Take your time with these cake pops and do plan with 2 days because the cake needs to cool down over night. If you don't have that kind of time just put it in the freezer for maybe around 15 minutes, that has always worked for me so far.
Ingredients:
145 g soft butter
80 g sugar
1 sachet of vanilla sugar
a bit of finely ground lemon zest
2 eggs (medium sized)
150 g flour
1 tbsp baking powder
2 tbsp yogurt
60 g cream cheese
30 g icing sugar
as well as
400 g white chocolate coating
Other things you need:
cake pop sticks
20 cm loaf pan
rotary cutter (whichever you like best really)
Preheat the oven to 180°C
Mix 125 g of the butter, the sugar, vanilla sugar and lemon zest into a bowl and beat till it gets foamy. Now I know that is what it says in the recipe but to be honest: My mixture has never looked anything close to foamy so don't worry if it doesn't as long as it looks something like this you are fine!
Add the eggs one after another and finally finish off with adding the flour, baking powder and a dash of salt.
Add the two tablespoons of yogurt but don't use the electric mixer instead take like a spoon or something.
Grease the loaf pan and pour the mixture in and off it goes into the oven for around 50 minutes.
Let the cake rest over night or at least 2-3 hours. If you don't have that kind of time about 15 minutes in the freezer will do as well.
After that take your cake and roughly crumble it into smaller pieces so you can grind it to fine crumbs in the food processor.
This was the hilarious part: We didn't have a food processor so we just thought why not do it with a blender? Bad idea I can tell you, it took forever :D
Cake crumbs, cream cheese, icing sugar and the rest of the butter are to be knead together so you have an even mixture.
With your finished mixture you want to try to roll it our and cut out pieces with any form of rotary cutter you like. We made hearts.
That is where it kind of turned into a mess, because the hearts we had were really small so we got like a thousand out of the mixture we had.
After you have cut them out, heat up your chocolate and then dunk the cake pops sticks in there and impale a heart.
You can either let that cool down on it's own for a bit or use the freezer option again. I recommend the freezer.
You are almost done now: Just dunk the hearts or whichever form you chose in the chocolate and have them cool down standing up. You can use a egg carton for that like we did or anything else you can stick them into really.
Now you are good to eat them :) They were a s*** load of work because of the small hearts but absolutely delicious nevertheless.
Also do have some fin while baking. We had different kinds of fruit lying around and decided why not have chocolate fondue while we are baking.
That's how sexy I looked trying to eat a chocolate strawberry:
Don't judge, you know you would have done it too :D
Have fun trying this recipe and also making a mess of your kitchen :)
x
J.
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