Sweet Facts About Cake Pops And Cupcakes
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People who are fond of sweet snacks probably are aware that the most popular food these days are the cake pops and cupcakes.
Cake Pops are cake and frosting all balled up in one, hand dipped in candy coating and covered in dÊcor and served on a stick like a lollipop. In order to create this dessert, you would have to prepare a cake mix, frosting, candy melts, colored sprinkles, colored icing tubes, and candy eye balls for aesthetics purposes. The primary thing to do when making cake pops is to bake a cake of the flavor of your choice. After that you place 2 cups of frosting in the bowl and put the two together. With this combination, you form small balls amounting to about 3 to 4 tablespoons each. Once you're done creating the balls, you place them inside a refrigerator for an hour or two or in a freezer or about thirty minutes. While you are passing time to wait for the pops, you can actually already start turning the candy into liquid in the oven. After melting the candy, you submerge the lollipop stick into it. Then, you take out the refrigerated cake pops and push the stick 2/3 through them. Lastly, you dip the entire cake pop into the melted candy and wait for it to dry. You are now finally done with your cake pop. Next, lovable dessert is the cupcake. Cakes and cupcakes are quite the same considering the fact that cupcakes are just cakes that are small in size, baked inside aluminum containers. What you’ll need in order to create this masterpiece are some butter, sugar, eggs, flour, vanilla extract, milk, food coloring and icing Cake Pops
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sugar. Also, you would have to buy some sprinkles, balls and petals for the decorations. To start off your baking, you’d have to preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. You should now get a bowl to be your container for the mixture of flour, baking powder, cocoa and sugar. Get another bowl and combine the eggs, milk and oil. Put together the contents of the two bowls. Once you're done mixing, you pour the mixture into the muffin liners in the pan through the use of a spoon, with about one third of the paper as allowance for the rising of the cupcakes. It's now appropriate to heat the pan in the oven for about ten minutes. Once the ten minutes is up, you can utilize a tooth pick to check if the cupcakes are really cooked. If they already indicate being cooked, you now remove the tray from the oven and allow the cupcakes to cool for one hour. You can now spend time decorating the cakes with sugar paste, icing and sprinkles. Once done, you already have cool cupcakes worthy for a cake blog.
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