Santa Cake Pops Recipes

Steps:

• Put the white candy melting wafers and the red candy melting wafers in 2 separate small microwave-safe bowls and melt in the microwave in 30 seconds intervals, stirring between each. Fill a piping bag fitted with a small round tip with the melted white candy.
• Put the red sanding sugar, white sanding sugar, white nonpareils and pink round sprinkles in 4 separate bowls.
• Dip the top third of each cake pop into the melted red candy for the hat. Sprinkle with red sanding sugar and top with a halved marshmallow. Pipe a line of melted white candy around the edge of the hat and sprinkle with white sanding sugar.
• Pipe 2 curved lines to form a beard with the melted white candy. With a small paintbrush, lightly dab the curved lines to widen the beard. Place a pink sprinkle on the center of the beard for the nose. Sprinkle the beard white nonpareils. Pipe 2 small dots for the eyes and place a black sprinkle on each dot. Chill in the refrigerator for 10 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• First make the cake. Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Grease and line the base of a 20cm sandwich tin. Place the butter, sugar and vanilla extract into a bowl and beat well to a creamy consistency. Slowly beat in the eggs, one by one, then fold in the flour and mix well. Tip into the cake tin and bake for about 20 mins until risen and golden brown. Set aside to cool completely.
• While the cakes are cooling, make the buttercream. In a large bowl or the bowl of stand mixer, beat the butter and icing sugar together until smooth, add the vanilla extract and milk and beat again. Once the cake is cooled, crumble into large crumbs. Add the butter cream and stir together. Take chunks of the cake mixture and roll into balls, transferring each ball to a lined tray or plate, push a lollypop stick into each, then put into the fridge for an hour to set.
• Melt the white chocolate in the microwave, blasting it and stirring at 10 seconds intervals until smooth. Tip the sprinkles into another bowl. Take each of the chilled cake pops and dip into the white chocolate, allowing it to drip off a little over the bowl. Dip into the sprinkles, then stand upright in a mug to dry at room temperature for an hour, or in the fridge for 30 mins.