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Cake Pops for Diwali

This Diwali, try something new, something different. What about a cake pop instead of a laddu? Kids will love these. And these cake pops are decorated with sparkly sprinkles and are pretty to look at. With proper instructions, you will never go wrong in making cake pops for diwali.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Resting time 1 hour
Course Cakes and Bakes, Desserts
Cuisine Global
Servings 22 cake pops approx

Ingredients
  

  • 300 gms plain cake
  • 200 gms white chocolate
  • 100 gms fresh cream
  • 1/3 cup sprinkles

For Coating

  • 150 gms dark chocolate
  • 150 gms white chocolate

Other necessary things

  • 2 dozens skewers or lollypop sticks
  • 1 board of thermocol or styrofoam to hold the cake pops

Instructions
 

  • Crumble the cake in a mixing bowl. Cut white chocolate into small pieces.
  • Melt the white chocolate in a dry plastic container in the microwave in shorst bursts of 20 seconds, 10 seconds and 10 seconds. Stir after each time and if needed, use another 10 seconds. Stir and melt the chocolate.
  • Heat the cream, 20 seconds in the microwave should do. Add the warm cream to the chocolate. Whisk vigorously to make a smooth sticky ganache.
  • Add half of the ganache to the cake crumble and mix. Bring the cake crumbles to a dough form. Add as much ganace as required, leaving a little bit for the sticks.
  • Make small round shapes (little less than lemon balls). You need to remember that the balls will be dipped in chocolate. So it will get thicker.
  • Dip one end of the sticks into ganache and stick inside the cake pop, like a lollypop.
  • Place all the cake pops in the refrigerator to harden. Takes about an hour to 2 hours.
  • Roughly chop dark chocolate and white chocolate and melt them in the microwave separately, following the method above.
  • Transfer both the chocolates into separate glasses. The mouth should be wide enough for the cake pops to go in .
  • Bring the cake pops out of the refrigerator. One by one, dip each pop vertically into the glass and take it out. Tap on the glass rim and shake off any excess chocolate.
  • Add sprinkles on the wet chocolate and then stick them up on the styrofoam board to dry.
  • The cake pops take between 10 minutes to 30 minutes to dry up, depending on the climate of your place.
  • Don't place it in the refrigerator. It is not needed. Afterwards, you can keep them in airtight containers in the refrigerator, if you wish to.

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