Valentines Cake Lollies Food

CAKE POPS

Steps:

• First make the cake. Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Grease and line the base of a 20cm sandwich tin. Place the butter, sugar and vanilla extract into a bowl and beat well to a creamy consistency. Slowly beat in the eggs, one by one, then fold in the flour and mix well. Tip into the cake tin and bake for about 20 mins until risen and golden brown. Set aside to cool completely.
• While the cakes are cooling, make the buttercream. In a large bowl or the bowl of stand mixer, beat the butter and icing sugar together until smooth, add the vanilla extract and milk and beat again. Once the cake is cooled, crumble into large crumbs. Add the butter cream and stir together. Take chunks of the cake mixture and roll into balls, transferring each ball to a lined tray or plate, push a lollypop stick into each, then put into the fridge for an hour to set.
• Melt the white chocolate in the microwave, blasting it and stirring at 10 seconds intervals until smooth. Tip the sprinkles into another bowl. Take each of the chilled cake pops and dip into the white chocolate, allowing it to drip off a little over the bowl. Dip into the sprinkles, then stand upright in a mug to dry at room temperature for an hour, or in the fridge for 30 mins.

VALENTINE'S CAKE LOLLIES

Steps:

• Ask an adult to trim 14 wooden skewers to 10cm.
• Break 40g of chocolate into squares. Microwave in a bowl on full power for 20-30 seconds, or until just melted.
• In another bowl, mix the butter, icing sugar, and vanilla extract. Add the Madeira cake and melted chocolate, and stir to mix.
• Press the mixture into heart shaped ice cube moulds, then put in the freezer for 10 minutes.
• Carefully turn the hearts out. Break the rest of the chocolate into squares and put in a bowl. Melt in the microwave for 45 seconds, stir, then heat in 10-second blasts, stirring, until melted.
• Dip the pointed end of the skewers into the chocolate, and then push them into the hearts. Coat them in the melted chocolate.
• Finally, decorate with the pearls and glimmer and then stick the skewers into the potatoes and leave to set in the fridge.