Hey guys, it’s Ro, welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
As most of you know, I was in New York recently to attend the Shorty Awards!
It was so much fun and I had to say thank you guys, because,
we won in the category of food! Thanks to you guys and your support.
So thank you, this was really really cool! I’m gonna put it over here.
Oh yeah, next to my little dinos! And they’re like ooh yeah, ooh yeah!
So in honor of social media, I am gonna be making social media cake pops!
With a recipe that my mom gave me! It’s really good, it’s red velvet cake
and cream cheese, it makes your cake pops a little bit thicker, and they
hold their shape a little bit better.
So let’s get started!
The things you will need, will be: vegetable oil, pam baking spray,
red velvet cake mix, or you can use your favorite recipe, 1 cup of water,
3 eggs, and 2 sh-ticks of cream cheese, and these are 8 ounces.
A big pan, a big mixing bowl, and electric beater, or a whisk.
Let’s put it all together!
UGH!
Scissors are good!
Then you beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
Once your batter is all mixed, we’re going to grease our pan, I just
have a rectangle pan, nothing fancy, it doesn’t matter what shape or size.
Because we’re gonna crumble our cake once it’s baked.
Gotta take some baking spray.
OK, so you’re just gonna open this, spray your pan, get all the corners.
And then pour your batter in. Peewwww!
Give it a little tap.
Now you’re gonna preheat your oven to 350 and bake for 35 minutes!
Once your cake is all done baking, take it out of the oven and make sure
it’s had plenty of time to cool before you do this. And what we’re gonna
do is we’re gonna crumb all of the cake into this bowl.
So I’m gonna take a knife, cut the cake into sections.
Like that, and you can get messy, use your hands.
Take the 2 pieces and crumble them, rub them together and crumble them over
the bowl. Crumb, crumb, crumb, crumb!
Yeah, well I will just save… I will just do this.
Once you’ve crumbed all of your red velvet cake into the big bowl, you’re
gonna take 2 boxes of cream cheese, they’re each 8 ounces so thats16 ounces
all together. I’ve just pre-opened this 1, and put both of them in there!
And you just massage it all together, you can use your hands, that is fine,
it’s probably the best way. Pro tip, I leave my cream cheese out for awhile
so it’s kind of warm. Little warmer, room temperature when you start
to do this, makes it easier to work with.
After you’ve massaged the cake for awhile and all the cream cheese is
combined, it will look like this!
Ah ya caught me red handed schee!
Then you’re gonna take a bunch of this and a clean cake pan, just pat it down.
Once you get all your cake mixture packed in here, we’re gonna put it in
the freezer for about 20 minutes to get very firm.
And then we’re gonna cut our shapes out.
This batter is really good for holding shape, eeeeee!
After your cake mixture has had plenty of time to cool off in the freezer,
you’ll take it out, take a big knife, and cut little squares!
So you’re just gonna pick up 1 of the little squares, and they’re very moldable still,
so you can just press ‘em down. Right here I just have a piece of wax paper
that I’m putting them on. And you’re gonna take a lollipop stick and dip it
into melted chocolate, this is just a little bit of white chocolate melts,
dip the tip in there.
Oooh, like that! And then stick it right in the middle. Mewrp!
I’m gonna make 8 social media little cake pops, but you can make as many
as you want. And once you’re done making these, we’re gonna stick them back
in the freezer for 20 minutes again.
I just took all these little cake pops out of the freezer, and now
we are gonna dip them in different colored candy chocolates.
Just these kind, the little Wilton colored chocolates.
First we’re gonna start with light blue,
I just warmed this up in the microwave.
Just gonna take your cake pop, put him in there, work it around.
Ta-da! There we go! They’re square-ish, and that’s what I was going for,
just as long as they weren’t round.
Aw so cute! And then, I got this piece of styrofoam, just any shape you want,
and then you just stick him right in there so they can dry.
Boop!
Ta-da! And then I’m gonna do them all the colors of all the different little social
media pops I want to do!
Now that we’ve got all of our cake pops dipped in the different colors,
we are going to decorate, using some frostings and candies!
I’m gonna start with Reddit, with white frosting.
Make the little alien face, with his little orange eyeballs!
Ta-da!
We finished all the Social Media Cake Pops, they look so cute!
My favorite is the Reddit 1, oh look at him, he’s so cute!
Instagram is cute too, but, he’s my favorite!
Or YouTube, gotta love YouTube! Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pintrest
and Flikr!
Thanks you guys for watching, if you have any other ideas for any other
Nerdy Nummies, please let me know, leave me a comment down below and I
will do my best to make it happen!
Also, I will have pictures of all these cute little cake pops on my new
Tumblr. I’ll put a link down below, and there’s tons of Nerdy Nummies
pictures out there that you can go check out.
Or, if you want to try making these yourself and you send me a pic on
Facebook or Twitter, or wherever, I will try to post them on fan
baking creations on Tumblr. OK, thanks you guys! Bye-bye!