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Pop Bakery: 25 Recipes for Delicious Little Cakes on Sticks
If you like cake, and you like chocolate, then you'll love cake POPs - the delicious little treats that are a cross between a cake and a lollipop. Discover cake POPs - a combination of moist cake and a sweet candy coating, moulded onto a lollipop stick and then decorated to create a whole host of characters. Clare O'Connell of the Pop Bakery teaches you all you need to know, from how to create the cake balls - a mouth-watering mixture of chocolate cake and icing - to dipping the cake balls in the special candy coating. Then she explains her unique method of painting the POPs using cocoa butter. There is one easy, delicious recipe and 25 beautiful and fun designs. Clare also introduces you to her special layer cakes, which are embellished with classic flower cake POPs. With clear, step-by-step photography and Clare's easy-to-follow instructions, cake POPs are incredibly fun and easy to bake and make. Both children and adults will adore these bitesize delights that are perfect for parties and special occasions. So what are you waiting for? Start cake POPping now!
- GenresCookbooksNonfictionFood
64 pages, Hardcover
First published March 31, 2011
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April 29, 2016
Some attractive ideas, but with two pretty important caveats.
One, these are going to be pricey to make. The author runs a cake making business, but unless you're going to be making these regularly, coughing up >£3 plus P&P for each colour of "candy melts" you want, plus extra for the decorations is going to add up pretty quickly.
Two, the pops on the picture are not at all indicative of the ideas contained within. As another reviewer noted, a fair few of them involve a lot of detailed work in painting them and, unless it's for a very special occasion, or unless, like the author, you are making them to sell, who is really going to do that? If right now you're thinking "Me! ME!"... if you can be bothered to shade in the details on the feathers of a penguin you're going to devour in a mouthful or two, then I salute your patience, but you have too much time on your hands.
Some of the ideas, to be fair, would be fairly easy to execute: skulls, pandas, teeth, frogs, toadstools and cupcake pops. The wedding cake pops involve a bit of work but could be managed by people without a great deal of skill and are probably one of the best ideas. Being white, you wouldn't have to buy loads of colours of "candy melts" (perhaps you could even try them with white chocolate?) and they could be a nice alternative to a traditional wedding cake or cupcakes. My personal favourites, though, would have to be the матрешки:
One, these are going to be pricey to make. The author runs a cake making business, but unless you're going to be making these regularly, coughing up >£3 plus P&P for each colour of "candy melts" you want, plus extra for the decorations is going to add up pretty quickly.
Two, the pops on the picture are not at all indicative of the ideas contained within. As another reviewer noted, a fair few of them involve a lot of detailed work in painting them and, unless it's for a very special occasion, or unless, like the author, you are making them to sell, who is really going to do that? If right now you're thinking "Me! ME!"... if you can be bothered to shade in the details on the feathers of a penguin you're going to devour in a mouthful or two, then I salute your patience, but you have too much time on your hands.
Some of the ideas, to be fair, would be fairly easy to execute: skulls, pandas, teeth, frogs, toadstools and cupcake pops. The wedding cake pops involve a bit of work but could be managed by people without a great deal of skill and are probably one of the best ideas. Being white, you wouldn't have to buy loads of colours of "candy melts" (perhaps you could even try them with white chocolate?) and they could be a nice alternative to a traditional wedding cake or cupcakes. My personal favourites, though, would have to be the матрешки:
May 4, 2011
I've bought this book of Nolly books when they were at the bookfair hosted by the school I worked at. Honestly I was actually looking for this book for awhile now and when found it, I went berserk.
This book provides clear instructions on how make this pops from step one and manage to leave me with lots of ideas regarding from making a normal pop to a far creative one like a snail.. The pages are adorned with fully colored photographs pages oh the how to's the best part is, in the end it leaves you with ideas to where to could get the items in making this cute creation.
This book provides clear instructions on how make this pops from step one and manage to leave me with lots of ideas regarding from making a normal pop to a far creative one like a snail.. The pages are adorned with fully colored photographs pages oh the how to's the best part is, in the end it leaves you with ideas to where to could get the items in making this cute creation.
June 21, 2011
Waay too fussy for me. If you're an artist who can imagine hand painting cake lollipops, this might be up your alley. If you're just looking to make a slightly cuter than a cupcake dessert or two, get thee to a copy of Cake Pops instead. Even if I had wanted to spend hours decorating my desserts as shown in this book, the directions contained few helpful details or photos to help me figure out what the heck the author was describing.
April 10, 2011
This book is a COMPLETE rip off of Bakerella's Cake Pops. Several of O'connell's designs are even suspiciously similar, and her recipe for the basic cake pop is exactly the same as Bakerella's. I can't believe O'connell has the gall to publish a book so freakishly similar at almost the same time, using plagiarised ideas and recipes. Low brow.
August 26, 2016
Not very original. Several repeats on a theme.
Check out Bakerella instead.
Check out Bakerella instead.
May 17, 2012
ONE OF MY FAV BOOK I LOVE THE CAKES ON STICKS!!!
June 12, 2012
Very helpful in making cake pops!
August 15, 2012
This book has some really cute ideas. I'll have to make some of these recipes soon!
June 9, 2011
Cute ideas, but I prefer the Bakerella's version and ideas for cake pops.
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