Baby Shower Cake Pops

I have never made cake pops before. I saw a basic cake pop (just a ball on a stick, dipped in dark chocolate then topped with white chocolate and sprinkled with cachous on top) on a fantastic cooking website called Taste.com. I really wanted to make some so when my friend decided to have a baby shower I thought I would have a go at making baby inspired ones.

What can I say, I am now hooked. I had such a ball making them and now my children are putting in orders for themselves for their birthdays etc!

My Vietnamese girlfriend told me I couldn't only make 'white' ones I had to make dark skin coloured ones too. So I made a couple of dark skined ones and a couple of Asian ones too!

And some little feet too!

Baby Shower Gingerbread

I also made these gingerbreads for my friends baby shower. I used cutters to cut out the shapes and iced them with royal icing (made out of egg whites) tinted with pink and purple and little decorations.

Baby Shower Cupcakes

Made these cupcakes for a friends baby shower. They are just a basic chocolate cupcake with chocolate buttercream icing and pink/strawberry buttercream icing. The decorations are hand made out of rolled and coloured fondant.

Chocolate Mousse filled Eggs

Ingredients:
1 box Cadbury hollow eggs

125g dark eating chocolate
3 eggs, separated
1Tbs Orange flavoured liquor
grated white chocolate

Method:
Carefully split the hollow eggs in half along the seam (Its best it you use a hot, sharp knife).
Melt the chocolate in the microwave in short bursts until all melted and smooth.
Mix the egg yolks with the Orange flavoured liquor.
Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
Mix the egg yolk mixture into the melted chocolate, this will turn very thick.
Mix through 1/3 of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture (this will lighten it and make it easier to fold through the rest of the egg whites).
Fold through the other 2/3 of the egg whites.
Fill the egg halves with the mousse then sprinkle with grated white chocolate and refrigerate until firm.

Birds Nest's

Ingredients:
1 packet Chang's brand fried noodles
200g milk chocolate
2 Tbs crunchy peanut butter
mini chocolate eggs

Method:
Melt the chocolate and peanut butter together in microwave in short bursts.
Stir until chocolate is completely melted then stir in the fried noodles.
Place the noodle/chocolate mix into lightly greased muffin trays to make nest shape.
Refrigerate until set.
When set, remove nests from the tray and place 2or 3 little eggs into the nests.

Easter Gingerbread

Ingredients:
75g butter
6 Tbs golden syrup
85g sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground allspice
300g plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
3 Tbs milk

Method:

Place the butter, golden syrup and sugar in a saucepan and heat gently stirring until sugar has dissolved.
Stir in the cinnamon, ginger and allspice into the butter mixture.
In a large bowl mix together the plain flour and the bicarbonate of soda.
Add the butter-spice mixture and milk to the flour and knead until dough is smooth.
Cut into shapes and place on greased oven trays and bake in oven 180 degrees for approx 12 mins.
Once cool decorate with melted chocolate, icing etc.

Dinosaur Cake

My son loves Dinosaurs so I made this cake for his 2nd birthday. It is covered in chocolate ganache then I made the dinosaur out of rolled fondant.                                                                      

Strawberry Shortcake's House

I made this cake for my eldest daughter's 7th birthday. 
Was a bit of a dud, I should have made it with mud cake as it is sturdier but made it with a light chocolate cake. It was too soft and it collapsed on itself and ended up being a flat strawberry that cracked in the back! Oh well, you bake and learn!