Bomb emoji cake pops

Want a dessert to blow the grandkids away? These delicious and adorable cake pops deliver an explosion of flavour – as well as fun. The next time you make (or even buy) a chocolate cake, save a decent slice and use it to make these sweet morsels.

Ingredients:

• 170g chocolate cake leftovers
• 85g popping candy
• 100g chocolate ganache
• 150g dark chocolate, melted for dipping
• Edible black lustre spray
• Small amount of black fondant
• Indoor sparklers
• Cake pop sticks

Methods:

1. Crumble into a bowl the cake offcuts.
2. Add a spoonful of ganache to the cake crumbs and, using your hands, combine until you can mould the mixture with your hands into a ball.
3. Add the popping candy to the mixture and give a final mix (it may be easier to use your hands at this stage).
4. Take some of the mixture and roll it into a ball with your hands. Repeat with the rest of the cake mix. Place the balls on a baking tray and chill for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
5. Melt the dark chocolate in a microwave or a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Dip the cake pop sticks into the chocolate and insert one into each cake ball.
6. Put them back into the refrigerator for a few minutes to set. Dip the balls into the melted chocolate and let any excess drip off. Place the sticks into a cake dummy to let the chocolate set.
7. Spray each cake ball with edible metallic black lustre spray. Insert the sticks back into the cake dummy to let the coatings dry.
8. Once dry, carefully remove the sticks from the cake balls, taking care not to dent or crack the dark chocolate coating.
9. For the bomb’s fuse, roll a small piece of black fondant in a long sausage and cut into rounds. Pipe ganache into the hole left by the stick then cover with the fondant fuse.
10. When ready to serve, insert an indoor sparkler into the black fondant fuse, light, and step back!

This is an edited extract from Cakemoji published by Quadrille RRP $19.99 available in stores nationally.

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