Now for quick Halloween post, before it’s time for a Christmas post!! As usual, my friend Helen held a Halloween party, and I decided this was a good opportunity for me to try out cake pops again to take along to the party. I made a batch of vanilla ones, and half a batch of chocolate ones ask hadn’t tried those before. I spent quite a while melting the Candy Melts, trying again to get the right consistency. I thought doing this in the microwave might give better results than over the hob, but I actually think this made it harder. However, I didn’t want to spend too long on this, as figured I should be able to make up for any untidiness at this stage when I decorated them. As getting the Candy Melts to a suitable consistency was so time consuming, I decided to only coat them in one colour – white. This did restrict my options a little, but it was still pleased with the ideas I had and how they turned out.
I began with some eyes balls, as I wanted something a little gruesome! I used a red icing pen to make the eyes look blood shot, and coloured fondant discs for the irises and pupils. Again I used coloured icing pens and strips of fondant to make the mummies, and circles of fondant draped over the pops to make the ghosts. I was worried the ghosts might be too sweet with that much fondant on top of the Candy Melts, but everyone enjoyed them and commented they were their favourite looking pops! I also decorated a few to look like Jack Skellington from the Nightmare before Christmas.
There’s still room for improvement so I’ll need to find another excuse to practice again…. I’m sure I won’t be short of volunteers to taste them!