Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Mickey Mouse Cakepop where I'll be showing you how
to make this great Mickey Mouse cakepop, the perfect accompaniment to our Minnie Mouse
cakepop and sure to please the Mickey and Minnie Mouse fans in your family.
Tools and equipment that we will be using today:
I've got a cakepop ball.
Now I've got that pre-rolled.
We do have a great recipe and tutorial for getting your cakepops to this consistency
ready to decorate on our channel so I will leave a link to that in the description box
below.
I will also mention, this has been refrigerated for at least 15 to 20 minutes from being made
so it's quite firm to touch.
I've got 2 teaspoons.
I've got a toothpick or cocktail stick.
I've got a couple of lollipop sticks and just a knife.
I've got some melted red candy melts, some melted black candy melts, a little bit of
melted white chocolate.
And some mini Oreo cookies.
Let's get started.
The first thing we want to do is we want to stick those mini Oreo cookies into our Mickey
Mouse head.
So I'm going to just slice the Oreo in half.
You can twist it if you like.
I just like to slice it because I get less breakages that way.
And just scrape off any excess Oreo cream.
You can pop that down there for later.
And then take your knife and just make a bit of an operation here.
Make a small incision into Mickey's head on either side so that you know where you're
going to place your Oreos.
Now we want to take those Oreos.
You want the very flat side of your Oreo so not the one with the logo on it.
You want the flat side to be what faces forward.
It'll give you that lovely Mickey ear shape.
Press it in to the cakepop ball where you've put those 2 guidelines.
And you want them to be not quite meeting up in the middle, so almost meeting up in
the middle but with a little gap.
Now I' going to take those out again and I'm just going to dip them into the black candy
melt, just a little bit of black candy melt on the bottom there and slide it back in.
That candy melt is going to attach those lovely Mickey Mouse ears to our cakepop ball so that
they are nice and firm and they don't fall out.
Pop those ones into the refrigerator for a couple of minutes just until that chocolate
that's holding those ears in is completely set.
And then we'll get back and continue decorating.
Back from the fridge and I'm happy that my chocolate seal is nice and set.
So remembering that the front of your Mickey Mouse head is going to be the flat side where
your Oreo cream was.
I want to dip the bottom of the Mickey head so I'm going to take my candy melts.
Give them a good stir.
Always give them a good stir just before you dip, even if you're dipping multiples because
I find candy melts...It's really quite hard to get them to stay in a lovely fluid consistency
like you can with white chocolate.
I've added quite a lot of Copha which is vegetable shortening here.
It's a clear vegetable shortening.
You can also add Crisco if you're in the US.
Otherwise, just have a look in your supermarket for a Copha or vegetable shortening alternative.
And I've added quite a lot there to get it to that consistency.
I didn't measure it out.
I normally do about 50 grams per 100 grams of candy melt.
But really it's just to get it to the consistency that you're happy with.
Alright, now to dip our Mickey Mouse head.
Because those ears are going to be so nicely firmly in place, you can actually hold him
by the ear and just dip him in.
Give it a good tap on the bench so that your candy melt is really leveled because you want
to try and get a nice leveled dip.
So just dip it in about halfway down and pull him out.
Working quite quickly here, take your lollipop stick, dip it a centimeter in to the candy
melt and push it up into the middle of your Mickey cakepop.
And just tap off any excess.
Don't tap too hard because we haven't given that chocolate seal as much time to set as
we normally would after you've popped the lollipop stick in.
So just tap it quite gently and just make sure you get off the bulk of any excess.
We'll sit that aside in our polystyrene block where it can completely dry before we move
on to black.
Now that that red is completely dry, we're going to switch over for the black.
As I mentioned, it's always a great idea to give that a nice stir.
Make sure that it's nice and fluid before we dip.
And take our Mickey Mouse.
And you want to dip him in.
You're going to dip him just to meet just over that red line.
So I'm going to dip his ears and, I guess, just over halfway.
Pull him out.
Now I like to tap that off this way and then to the sides.
So by tapping it this way, you're actually forcing that chocolate down in between those
ears and you're really giving them nice definition.
Now I do have the cocktail stick.
I did find with some of my earlier ones of these, underneath the ear, just didn't quite
get enough of the black candy melts on it.
So if that happens, just dip your cocktail stick in a little bit of that candy melt.
This one's turned out fine.
A little bit of that candy melt and just neaten up under the ears before it dries.
And if you do make a bit of a mistake where you don't have a really nice neat line there,
you can just drag your finger across the front and you'll be able to neaten up that line.
If you've got any, I guess, if it's a little bit uneven.
So finally for Mickey Mouse, we're going to take that spare lollipop stick and we're just
going to give him the 2 buttons on his overalls.
So giving that white chocolate a little bit of a stir.
And we're just going to make 2 sort of [long] overly looking white chocolate dots.
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There you have your Mickey Mouse cakepop, perfect to accompany Minnie to the party for
your next Disney event.
As always, thanks very much for watching.