Mickey Mouse cake pops!

So the holiday season was pretty busy for us! We went with the family to Orlando to hang out and visit "The Mouse"! I made a few trips to Goofy's Candy Company in Downtown Disney and fell in love with all of the character themed goodies that were in the bakery cases! Here's where I got my inspiration....

So lately I've been lacking artistic creative motivation. Well thanks to Disney, my babysitter, and the Bakerella cake pop book, I found the motivation to rev up my creative juices! The cake pops at Disney were $3.95 a piece, and were composed of a chocolate or vanilla cake center with marshmallows as the ears. I didn't have marshmallows on hand so I used all cake instead. I used red velvet cake mix (a holiday gift from my awesome sitter,) cream cheese frosting (about 1/3 a container,) and my new Bakerella cake pop book! I'm a little late on the uptake with the whole cake pop thing...but oh well!

I started off with fifteen cake pops and 30 ears. I rolled the cake pops like a ball and the ears too. With the ears I pressed my index finger to flatten the balls and worked around the edged until they were more like discs instead of balls. Then I dipped the sticks in candy coating and inserted them into the larger balls of cake and dipped the ears in a bit of candy coating and positioned them onto the top of the cake pops. I was thinking the whole time how weird they looked and then I realized it was because they resembled raw meat! Haha!

So I then found out in one dip why Disney decided to use marshmallows for the ears! My first try was an epic fail with one ear landing in the bottom of the candy coating bowl. So I decided to take a spoon and drizzle the coating over and that worked a lot better. I used a toothpick to scrape the thicker spots of candy coating and then promptly proceeded to the sugar sprinkles. To coat them with the sugar sprinkles I used two bowls, one that was empty, and the other one filled with sprinkles. Next I held the cake pop over the empty bowl while shaking the sprinkles onto the cake pop then I shook the excess off and traded the bowl underneath ( now full of sprinkles) for the empty bowl I had and repeated until the entire cake pop was covered. Unfortunately since this was my first attempt I only ended up with 8 presentable cake pops out of the 15 :(. I will definitely use marshmallows next time for the ears but it is doable with cake it's just a bit more meticulous!

Thank you Disney for being an ever-magical, and ever-inspirational force in the lives of many such as myself. Seeing that castle at 26 with 2 kids felt no different than seeing it when my own mom was 26 and I was one of her two kids seeing it for the first time.