Cake Pops And Unicorn Cupcakes
Time: 45 Minutes
Recipe By Thando Manyoni
Ingredients
- 500g Golden Cloud Vanilla Cake Mix
- 150ml sunflower oil
- 250ml water
- 2 large eggs
Cake Pops
- 500g Golden Cloud Vanilla Cake Mix
- 1 sheet vanilla cake
- 12 cake pop sticks
- Styrofoam
- ¼ cup butter cream
- 1 cup white chocolate, melted
- Rainbow sprinkles
- Pink and white sprinkles
Unicorn Cupcakes
- Vanilla cupcakes
- 1 ½ cup pastel blue buttercream
- 1 ½ cup pastel pink buttercream
- 1 ½ cup pastel yellow buttercream
- Mini gold unicorn horns
- Gold sprinkles
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C and prepare a baking sheet and line a cupcake tin.
- Place the Golden Cloud Vanilla cake mix into a large bowl.
- In a jug, whisk together the oil, water and eggs. Make a well in the centre of the cake mix and add the wet ingredients. Whisk until the mixture is smooth and lump free.
- Pour half the mixture on the baking sheet and spread. Use the remaining mixture to make cupcakes.
- Place in the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.
- Crumble the prepared cake sheet into fine crumbs. Add the buttercream frosting until the cake holds together if squeezed.
- Scoop 1 heaped tbsp of the mixture into your hands and roll into a ball. Repeat the process until the mixture is finished and place the balls on a plate. Place the plate in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- Remove from the freezer. Stick the balls on a stick and dip in the melted chocolate, gently tap the stick on the side of the dish to let the excess drip off.
- Before the chocolate hardens, add the sprinkles. Push the cake pop stick into a Styrofoam flock to hold up the cake pops. Place in the fridge to set further.
- Place a sheet of plastic wrap on your work surface, and spoon each of the colours in a straight line on the plastic wrap. Carefully pull up on plastic wrap to roll
- the buttercream onto each other, creating one large log of colourful buttercream and twist the ends to seal.
- Prepare a large piping bag with a start nozzle. Cut off one twisted end of the plastic wrap from the log. Insert the log into the piping bag and pipe the cupcakes.
- Top each cupcake with a unicorn horn and gold sprinkles.
For the cupcakes
Serves 8 -12. Baking instructions are a guideline only. Baking times may vary.