POLOKWANE – Make your partner feel extra special this love month by preparing them a delicious batch of cake pops, made with love.
Local chef and owner of Corner Café and Confectionery, Molatelo ‘Chef Lati’ Malebatja gives an easy recipe/gift idea for your partner this Valentine’s Day.
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Vanilla Cake Pops:
Ingredients
• 450g ready made vanilla sponge cake.
• 50g apricot jam
• 70g icing sugar
• 1/2 vanila extract
Decoration:
• 225g dairy milk chocolate roughly chopped
• 20 lolly sticks or kebabs sticks
• 150g icing sugar
• Pink food colouring
• 4 tsp of cold water
• Sweet sprinkles
Method:
• Crumble the sponge cake into mixing bowl. Add the apricot jam, icing sugar and vanilla extract and mix together until it sticks together. Scoop with a tbsp and roll into a ball shape.
• Chill in a freezer for 1 hour.
• Put the chocolate in a heat proof bowl, set the bowl over a pot of simmering water and heat until melted. Remove from the heat.
• Push in a stick in each cake pop and deep into the chocolate until coated. Lift it from bowl letting the excess chocolate drip back into the bowl.
• Place in a cup and chill till the chocolate is set.
• Put the icing sugar in a bowl and beat in a dash of pink food colouring and water until smooth.
• Spoon it on a cake pop and give it shape using the back of a spoon. If too firm add little more water.
• Sprinkle the sweet sprinkles on top of the icing.
