Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Princess Cakepop Tutorial. I am super excited about
these gorgeous princess cakepops and I'll be showing you how to make them today.
Tools and equipments that we will be using today:
I have some lollipop sticks. I've got a couple of cakepop balls, pre-made.
If you don't have a great recipe and technique for your cakepop balls, you can check out
our cakepop basics series. There's a recipe and tutorial on our channel.
I've got some melted white chocolate that I've tinted green. Now I will mention for
all of these princesses that you see in the shot today, I haven't use candy melts. I've
used melted white chocolate, tinted in different colors, so I will leave some information,
the descriptions, as to what colors I've used. But I will let you know that I've used any
color paste and just very small amount of color paste. So never use a liquid color if
you're trying to color chocolate. I've got some sticky tape.
I've got some of my printables. Now these are just some printables that I've found online.
I'll leave a link to those in the description box of this tutorial and I've pre cut out
one of mine. I'm going to be doing Tiana today, one of the princesses from the Princess and
the frog. When you cut your printables out, make sure that you are cutting off all of
her skirts, so you really just want... you've noticed I've got her shoulders, I've got her
arms, and I've got her torso, and we've gotten rid off all of the skirt because our cakepop
is going to make up that lovely skirt. As an option extra, I've also got some gold
and silver edible glitter, a little bit of water, and a paint brush. Now that is going
to be used if you want to achieve the glitter effect that you can see on the bottom of the
skirt here. You don't need it. It's a nice little extra but it's certainly not a must
have. They are really effective as they are without the glitter.
Let's get started. Now you'll see with my cakepop balls, I've
gotten two to show you today because I'm starting with quite a large cakepop ball. So this is
our standard-sized cakepop ball. This one's about, I guess, ½ cakepop ball, so just a
little bit bigger. I've done that because I wan to make sure I've got a nice full princess
skirt and not a little skinny pencil work skirt for our princesses.
So I'm going to take that cakepop ball, all rolled onto its nice little ball, and I'm
just going to make it into a cone shape. So I'm going to do this upside down. I'm just
rocking it back and forth in the palms of my hands and I'm just going to make it into
a nice little cone shape there. Now I'm going to pop that in the fridge before I do anything
else for 15 minutes. I'm going to put it in the fridge before I add the lollipop stick
or anything just to let it firm up. So that when I put the lollipop stick in the top of
it, it doesn't squash down the shape. Because that's going to be a little bit time
consuming, I've got one that I prepared earlier, so this has been refrigerated for 15 minutes.
Then I've dipped my lollipop stick in some melted white chocolate and I pop it into the
top of the cakepop and I've re-refrigerated it for another 5 minutes just to let that
lovely white chocolate seal set. It's time to get dipping. now I should also
mention that I've got a little piece of grease proof paper here, a little piece of wax paper.
That's just going to be to let the cakepop dry on. I'm going to take my little Tiana
and my sticky tape. I like to do this first because once you dip that cakepop, you want
to work quite quickly to attach your princess. So I am going to take the sticky tape and
I'm just going to pop a little bit of one side of it down on the back of Tiana and I'm
going to leave the rest folded back. I'm actually going to stick that to the little mat that
I'm working on just so it's easy for me to grab when I need it.
As always with dipping, I love to have a nice deep container. I'm going with green because
the rest of her dress is green so I'm going with the colors that have been provided on
the image and I'm just going to pop that cakepop all the way in -- tilt side to side, making
sure to cover up that lovely seal and then pull it out of the melted white chocolate.
Now normally I would tap off the excess but don't worry about it here.
We're going to sit that down on the wax paper and you'll see I'm actually pushing it down
as I sit it. And it's just creating a nice little, I guess, a little flat foot for the
dress to sit on or for the princess to sit on.
Now I am going to take that pre-stuck Tiana and I'm just going to use a sticky tape to
attach it to the back of the cakepop here. I'll do this backwards. Now what I want to
do... the reason I want to do this wet is because I'm actually going to stick her hands
into that chocolate. I've done that with these other girls here. Arielle's hands are right
down into her skirts and that's just going to help to hold it in place. So sticking it
in, trying to line up the waist, and folding it across. Now don't worry if you've got excess
sticky tape hanging over the edges. You can go along and trim that off after it is completely
dry. At this stage, you want to lay back for about 15 minutes to completely dry. Once it's
finished, you can get a little pile, a little zip lock bag, and you can [pipes] a little
patterns on it if you like. But as I mention you've also got the option
of adding a bit of glitter. If you want to add glitter, I'm going to go with silver.
An edible glitter is sold at all good cake decorating shops. If you want to add glitter,
wait until it's completely dry, your cakepop, brush it with a little bit of water, not too
much. And just using your finger, just wipe off any excess so that it's just a nice, I
guess, a little light coating of water. And then with dry fingers, take your edible glitter.
You don't need a lot of it and you just want to sprinkle it from a bit of a height. Now
the reason that I don't put this on the chocolate while its wet -- I like to put the water and
do it after it's dried -- if you put it onto the chocolate while it's wet, it actually
sinks into the chocolate and it doesn't give you as good as sparkle and you need to use
a lot more of it. Edible glitter is quite expensive so this is a cost-effective way
of getting the best result. So there you have your lovely glittery skirt.
Now as I mentioned, Tiana's going to take about 15 minutes to dry so we're going to
let her dry. You'll see her here with all of her other Disney princess friends. If you
wanted to turn this into a place setting, really easy just to print out a lovely little
piece of tag with the names on it and a couple of holes, punched by a hole punch. You've
also got the option to give them as party favors and bonbonniere.
I will also mention the paper that I used when I made this printables was a 250GSM cardboard
so it's not a paper. It's an actual cardboard that I've printed on and it's quite a bit
sturdier than paper. You don't want to try and do this with paper.
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