This time it was my son’s turn to get creative in the kitchen. His class received a homework assignment this week to make a Christmas present for someone else in the class. It could be anything as long as it was homemade. He decided he wanted to make cakes that looked like Christmas tree baubles for his friend. We got out our trusty cake pop maker and did this…
WHAT YOU NEED:
For the cakes:
Any basic cupcake recipe should be fine, this is the one we used:
100g caster/fine sugar
100g white flour
Half teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
50g butter
1 large egg
60ml milk
Half teaspoon vanilla essence
For the decoration:
Icing sugar
Water
Sparkly red, green and silver sugar sprinkles
WHAT YOU DO:
1) Throw all the cake ingredients into a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until well combined and smooth.
2) Pre-heat your cake pop maker for 5 minutes, spoon mixture into it (this quantity of mixture makes 24 cake pops, so that’s 2 batches on a standard 12 ball maker).
3) Cook for 5 minutes (unless your machine has different instructions, in which case follow those!).
4) Remove cakes and cool completely on a rack.
5) Mix the icing sugar and water. Don’t ask me about quantities here because we didn’t measure, but you want a fairly liquid consistency. Pour sprinkles onto plates.
6) One at a time, roll the cakes in the icing mixture until fully, but thinly, coated (you may need to hold them up and let some of it drip off). Then roll them into the sprinkles until completely covered. Place them on sheets of baking paper to set.
We then placed them into a box lined with tissue paper, and tied it up with some festive curling ribbon to make a nice gift. We did first contemplate trying to use some silver or gold thread to turn them into actual hanging baubles, but my son decided he preferred to just leave them like this. I think these would be a lovely addition to a Christmas party food table…
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These look yummy and festive. I think your son is on to something!
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I think so too! They looked better in real too than in the photos, the red was more red intense in real, I think the flash paled it!
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Reblogged this on Recipe Reblog.
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Thanks for the reblog!
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a very elegant and classy holiday treat…
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Me or the cakes? (Don’t answer that!).
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I’m pretty knowledgeable in the kitchen, but what is ‘a cake pop maker’? Sounds a fun holiday treat.
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It makes balls of cakes, they’re called cake pops because the idea usually is that you decorate them and put them on sticks. See here: http://www.amazon.com/Babycakes-Pop-Maker-CP-94LV-Purple/dp/B00695UQV8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386916396&sr=8-1&keywords=cake+pop+maker
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WOW. I sure feel like a babe in the woods. I should get out more. 🙂 Thanks for the link, Vanessa.
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what a great gift
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Apparently the recipient was very pleased with them!
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I can see why
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This post just made my day! Loving your splendid looking bake! =)
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Glad you liked it – I always enjoy it when my kids get creative!
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Relying on your children to do all the hard work for what is supposed to be your SugarNess blog – is that allowed? His results do look good though – good enough to eat …
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Well what are kids for if not to do the work for you? 😉
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Wow, those look really, really good! It is so hard to be careful with the diet at this time of year! 🙂
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Yes, but when you’re making them as a gift it’s much easier on the diet!
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Great idea for an afternoon in with the kids, as well as gift/party favors. I really like your description of step 1, Vanessa: “Throw all the ingredients into a bowl…!” Makes it sound so much more active and fun. 🙂
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Yep, I’m not usually one for very fussy cooking! Throw it all in is my kind of cooking! 🙂
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I’m with Mayumi — love recipes that I can just throw together! Those are very pretty. Did his school friend enjoy them?
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Yes, apparently he started eating them at school and had finished them before he got back home!
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