Snowmen Pops

Name: Snowmen Pops
Yield: Makes 15—18 cake pops
Ingredients: cake pop sticks; gel or paste food colouring, orange, red, blue; 100 g/3¾ oz ready-to-roll fondant icing, white; 5 ml/1 tsp icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting; 300 g/11 oz white candy melts or white chocolate; 65 g/2½ oz/5 tbsp butter, softened; 5-10 ml/1-2 tsp milk; 150 g/5 oz/1¼ cups icing (confectioners’) sugar, sifted; 100 g/3¾ oz ready-to-roll fondant icing, black; 375-400 g/13-14 oz vanilla or lemon cake (use store-bought)

Preparation info

Makes
15—18
cake pops

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cupcakes for Kids

By Rosie Anness and Cortina Butler

Published 2014

About

These cheerful upside-down cake pops are made from balls of cake and buttercream covered with white chocolate. We have given the snowmen rather battered top hats, but you can have fun giving them individual hats and scarves.

Ingredients

For the Cake Pops

65 g/2½ oz/5 tbsp butter, softened
150

Cake
Birthday

Method

Cream the butter until soft and pale. Gradually add the sifted icing sugar, beating well between each addition. If the icing is very stiff, add a little or all of the milk.
Crumble the cake into fine crumbs (this is easiest to do in a food processor) and place the crumbs in a large bowl. Mix in the buttercream, a