Cake Pop People & Stuffed Toys

A friend of a friend was celebrating his wife's birthday with a dinner with a bunch of their friends. One of their friends drew caricatures of some of the people in their group and the dude thought it would be neat to have these caricatures translated into cake pops! Haaa so funny. Can you imagine taking a bite out of your own mini head?

He also wanted four of his wife's favourite stuffed animals in cake pop form too, a polar bear, a teddy bear, a tiger and a moose!

So first, made the cake bit. These cake pops were red velvet cake swirled with dark chocolate ganache. For details on how to make a cake pop, check out my cake pops basics page. Most of the cake pops were rolled into balls, but some of them I had to shape accordingly, especially the moose and the tiger.

To get the flesh tone for the skin, I melted some white chocolate and dyed it peach with some peach powdered food colouring. I finally figured out why the white chocolate I was using before was giving me problems in that it was too thick! I was previously using white compound chocolate. Today, I used white chocolate couverture, which cost twice as much but is SO smooth. It's perfect for dipping cake pops in without having to severely thin down using vegetable shortening! 

Originally, I was gonna use black fondant for the hair, but I figured it would be so much easier to use black Candy melts. These Wilton Candy melts are seriously a pain in the neck to work with because they're SO thick! But it was ok in this case because I needed the hair to hold its shape a bit. I spooned the melted candy (thinned down with a bit of vegetable shortening) into a piping bag fitted with a round tip and piped the hair onto the heads. I had to layer the hair for the girls to achieve the look of long hair. 

I was so excited to do these cake pops partly because I wanted to try out my brand spanking new Americolor Gourmet Food Writers that I ordered from the US! My Wilton Food Markers have always given me trouble when it comes to writing on cake pops, so I had my fingers crossed that today would be a good day. 

Unfortunately, it was 50-50. Yes, the Americolour Gourmet Food Writers worked better than Wilton's, but it was still the same problem of the white chocolate gooping up the tip and making drawing really difficult. I resorted to "dotting" the faces on because any form of dragging didn't work (sometimes the tip of the marker would actually ERASE what I had already drawn, and sometimes bits of chocolate would get stuck on the tip and make a crater in the cake pop finish.) 

Birthday girl's hubby...looks like Kim Jong Il?

It was painful and tedious to draw all the faces, no thanks to the Food Writers, but I guess it would have been doubly painful if not impossible had I only had the Wilton ones. I'm loving how these cake pop heads turned out! Each and every one of these 19 cake pop people heads are different and they have their own personality. It was fun taking pics of them cuz I was imagining them talking to each other.. Haaa.

The animals were really fun to do as well. The details like the heart, the bow, the eyes , the noses and the moose's antlers were made out of fondant. They were all dipped in white chocolate, except the moose, which was obviously dipped in dark chocolate. Their ears were bits of the white chocolate stuck on using a little bit of melted chocolate.

Blushy, Ocean, Bouncy & Moosie

Here the cake pop people and animals are, packed and ready to go to the party! It was so fun to make them. I hope the birthday girl and her friends enjoy eating....themselves! Haaaa.