Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Pokémon Pokeball Candy Bomb Tutorial where I'll be
showing you how to make this gorgeous little no-bake pokeball candy bombs.
We've also got a cute tutorial on a Pikachu cakepop.
So if you're having a little bit of a Pokémon event, these two go absolutely perfectly together.
Tools and equipment that we will be using today:
I've got a couple of just little white sequins sprinkles.
They're a bit of an optional extra but you can use them just to accentuate your little
pokeball buttons.
I've got some optional little Pokémon printables.
So when we smash these out, they're just printed on a little bit of card or paper.
But when we smash these candy bombs open, not only are you going to get candy inside,
everyone at the party is going to get a different Pokémon character which adds a little bit
of extra fun to these sweet treats.
If you do go with this option, please make sure that you let your guests know that these
are non-edible.
We don't want anybody eating a paper Pokémon character!
I've got some mini-M&Ms.
That's just going to be my chosen candy for inside these candy bombs.
Some melted white chocolate.
Some melted red candy melts.
I've got some melted black candy melts.
I've got my silicone cakepop mold.
Now somebody gave me this to bake cakepops in.
But for those of you guys that follow my channel, you'll know that the actual traditional way
to bake cakepops is actually to take cooled crumbled cake and then ganache your frosting,
squish it all together and give yourself a really nice chocolate-y truffle-y ball rather
than just a ball-shaped cake.
So I had no other use for this silicone cakepop mold and I've been sitting there thinking
ever since of ways that I can put it to use so it doesn't go to waste.
You can't do this with a metal mold.
You will need a silicone mold or a circle chocolate mold.
I've got a pair of scissors.
A toothpick.
A paintbrush.
A zip lock bag.
And just a couple of spoons.
So let's get started.
Now the first thing that we want to do is we want to start filling each half of our
pokeball.
This is where our spoons come in.
So I'm just going to take some of that red candy melt and I'm going to use the back of
my spoon just to sort of just spoon it in.
Now don't put too much in there.
You're just putting about a quarter of a teaspoon or a half a teaspoon, but we're going to do
2 coats so it doesn't have to be too thick and don't worry if you can't see a little
bit of that red silicone coming through.
We'll do a couple of these today.
Also make sure that you do about 20% more than what you think you're going to need just
to allow for any breakages or any cracking.
And then we'll repeat that process with our white.
The one thing that you do want to watch while you're doing this is you do drag that chocolate
all the way up the sides so you're getting sort of a nice, sort of a thick side on the
edges of your pokeballs because that's where they're going to be most likely to break.
Alright now before it dries too much you just want to use your fingers just to clean up
around the edges of each one of those so that you've got a nice neat even rim.
We're going to pop those in the fridge and then come back and add another coat.
Okay, so we're back from the fridge, those are really nicely set.
So we're going to give them a second coat and the reason that I give them 2 coats is
just to make sure that we get a nice even distribution and it makes them a little bit
faster to set and ensures we have a good even coating.
You don't want to go too thick with that chocolate or with that candy melt, because you want
to be able to smash into this without too much difficulty, and you want to make sure
there's plenty of room in there for all that delicious candy and for our little Pokémon
characters so they've got a little bit of space.
So once again, just cleaning up around the edges and back in the fridge for another 5
or so minutes until they're completely set.
Now, we're back from the fridge and those ones have now completely set.
I love these because you can make them a few days in advance so you don't have to make
them all on the day that you need to use them.
So to get them out, you just want to sort of stretch out that silicone.
Now this is why you can't use your metal molds.
So I just sort of peel the silicone back, and watch them because sometimes they'll just
pop right out and go flying across the kitchen bench.
So you can see there, you're really just pushing them out, and by scraping that chocolate all
the way up to the sides, you can see we've got a really lovely thick edge.
That's not going to crack and it's not going to break which is exactly what we want, so
just pull all of your little pokeball halves out of your silicone mold.
Alr Now, you want to take some of your candy and
just tip them into one half.
Now, I'm looking at that one.
This one here is a little bit more shallow because there's a bit more chocolate in there.
So I'm going to go with the deeper half so that I get more candy.
And you can use any candy you like.
Nerds would be great in here.
It just depends on what you want to serve.
So we're going to grab 2 of our little Pokémon characters and just sit them in amongst that
candy.
And then you want to take your zip lock bag and just scoop in some of that melted white
chocolate.
Push the chocolate all the way down to the corner of the bag and seal it.
Make sure there's no air in there.
Now, you want to just fashion a little bit of a piping tip here.
So grab your zip lock bag and just take the corner and your pair of scissors and just
snip it off.
There's no exact amount.
You don't want it to be too thick because you just want to be able to control how much
of that chocolate is going to come out.
And now, sort of I guess the trickiest part.
So you want to take one half and then your other half, sit the white on top.
It doesn't really matter what's top and bottom because they're all going to get shoveled
around in there or shuffled around in there, and you just want to hold them together.
Don't worry if you've got a little bit of a gap, that's totally fine.
Try to get them as even as you can though.
So now you want to take your zip lock bag and we're just going to fill in a nice thick
line of melted white chocolate all the way around that seal.
Alright, now from here, you just want to count to 5.
We just want that to start setting a little bit but not too much.
So now you want to take just your finger and you're just going to swipe around the outside
of that pokeball.
We'll repeat that with our second ball.
Now you want to make sure you're not getting too much of it on the red there.
But if you do find that you've made a little bit of a mess, just grab a nice smooth knife
and you can just sort of drag it along and just shave off any of that excess white chocolate.
That'll just clean up your pokeball a little bit and it will also take off any ridges.
Alright, so we've had a little bit of tidy up and now it's time to take your black candy
melts and your pokeball and you just want to use that paintbrush just to paint on a
nice center line.
Try not to hold on to your pokeball too much.
I'm just balancing it just a little bit with my fingers.
So that I'm not touching that too much and melting it, I'm actually going to let that
set before I roll it over and keep going with the other line.
Alright, so there you've got your basic pokeball, pretty much ready to go.
What were going to do now is just add on this button.
So we're just going to paint a nice big circle right in the middle of that black band.
So when you're happy with your circle, just take your toothpick and a little bit of that
white chocolate.
You want quite a decent little blob here.
Pop that down and then taking one of your white sprinkles, pop it in the middle.
Perfect!
So there's your little pokeball candy bomb ready to go.
I hope that you guys have loved this tutorial.
Make sure that you check out our Pikachu cakepop, the perfect accompaniment to this pokeball
candy bomb.
And I know the moment you've all been waiting for is here, you're going to want to see me
smash it.
So to smash these, I always find the best way is to use a big spoon.
Grab your spoon, lay it on the table and we're just going to smash it.
So there you've got your candy, your pokeball, and look, our little Pokémon character, sure
to be a hit with the kids and with the big kids.
Thanks very much for tuning in to My Cupcake Addiction.