Eyeball Cake Pops

31st October is all about the treats and these cake pops will certainly hit the spot. With a soft sponge centre combined with delicious frosting and a white chocolate coating they are frightfully delightful. 

We were sent some of the ingredients and a recipe from Rangemaster for National Chocolate Week but as they arrived a little later we transformed a standard cake pop into something suitable for the next big event on our calendar; Halloween!

Ingredients

For the cake

110g caster sugar

110g butter

2 large eggs

75g self raising flour

35g cocoa powder

For the frosting

125g butter, softened

1tsp vanilla extract

300g icing sugar

2tsp milk

For the coating

150g chocolate 

Sprinkles (We used Renshaw Melts and edible eyes instead)

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
• Line a 12 hole muffin tin with paper cases
• Put the butter and sugar into a bowl and mix until light and creamy
• Beat in the eggs a little at a time
• Fold in the flour and cocoa
• Put even amounts of the mixture into the cases
• Bake for 10-15 minutes or until you can insert a skewer and it comes out clean
• Take out of the tines and leave to completely cool. Leave the cakes overnight in the fridge before adding the frosting
• For the frosting put the softened butter in a bowl and whisk, slowly add the icing sugar
• Add the milk and vanilla extract then whisk until light and fluffy
• Remove the cakes from the fridge and crumble into a bowl so it has the appearance of bread crumbs then mix in some of the frosting until the mixture can be formed into small balls
• Make balls of the mixture by rolling between your hands and place onto a baking tray. These need to be placed in a fridge to set for about 30 minutes
• While the cake pops are setting, melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of just simmering water
• Once the cake pops have set, dip a pop stick into the chocolate and insert into the cake pop
• Once all the sticks are in, dip each of the cake pops into the melted chocolate, decorate and leave to set (this is where instead of sprinkles we added Renshaw Melts and an eyeball to each)

If you stand each in polystyrene it will prevent the decoration from getting ruined.

Have you made any Halloween treats yet?

You can follow me:

Facebook // Twitter // Instagram // Pinterest