We recently returned from a three week vacation, visiting my husband's family in Hawaii. Needless to say, I haven't baked at all in the past month! Instead, I'll share with you the golf ball cake pops that I made a few months ago, which I never had time to post ... until now!
My friend Cindy has a friend who was interested in having me make cake pop favors for her upcoming wedding, after learning that I had made the cupcake pops at Cindy's wedding. She specifically wanted the cake pops to look like golf balls, and asked me to make a dozen as samples for her and her family to try. I immediately ordered these golf ball candy molds , and set out to make golf ball cake pops!
I started by making my favorite homemade chocolate cake recipe. Once cooled baked, I broke up the cake and pulsed the pieces through the food processor in batches. Then I made a batch of cream cheese frosting, mixed it into the cake crumbs, and formed the mixture into little balls. I covered them in plastic wrap, and let them chill in the fridge while I went about preparing the melted white chocolate for the coating.
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After melting the white chocolate in a double boiler on the stove, I dipped one end of a lollipop stick in the melted white chocolate, and then inserted that end into a ball of cake. Then, instead of dipping the cake pop into the melted chocolate like I would normally do, I brushed the inside of the golf ball mold with melted chocolate and then pushed the cake pop into the mold.
After they set in the fridge, I popped each one out of the mold, brushed more melted chocolate into the inside of the mold, and pushed the other side of the cake pop into the mold. I only had one mold so I could only do one side of the cake pops at a time.
The first few weren't pretty. The seams were messy where the two halves of the golf balls came together. And I didn't coat enough melted chocolate on the inside of the mold, so the dark cake showed through the thin coating of white. I guess I didn't learn my lesson after making white hello kitty cake pops with chocolate cake inside! Next time I will remember - use a light-color cake when using white chocolate coating!
Golf {cake} Balls
But after a few batches, they started looking better. The seams looked smoother. And the cake didn't show through as much, because I made a mighty thick coating on those golf ball molds! (Although, this lead to other problems - when eaten, the white chocolate felt way too thick and would crack heavily, leading the cake ball to fall off the stick.)
*** Update: You can also check out this link to see the golf ball pops made by Jasmin of 1 Fine Cookie , who was the first to come up with the idea of using a candy mold to shape the golf balls!
*** More updates: I used the same candy mold to shape golf balls as cake toppers! You can find the golf ball cakes here and here !
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