Hello!
Welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Pikachu Pokemon Cakepop Tutorial where I'll be showing you
how to make this really really cute little Pikachu cakepop.
So tools and equipment that we will be using today:
I've got a couple of premade ears and I'll be showing you how to make those today.
I've got 2 little red...
I think they're called red sequins or little red sprinkles but you could also use just
a little dollop of red candy melt for this.
I've got black candy melts.
You can also use dark chocolate.
I've got some white nonpareils or plain white sprinkles and you can also use white chocolate,
just a tiny amount.
I've got some water, just plain water.
I've got my cakepop ball.
Now if you don't have a great recipe for getting your cakepop balls to this stage, ready to
dip and decorate.
I will leave a link to the My Cupcake Addiction recipe in the description box below.
And that one has been refrigerated for about 15 minutes.
So it's really quite nice, firm and cool.
I've got a lollipop stick.
A couple of toothpicks.
I've got some melted yellow chocolate or candy wafers, depending on what you like to use,
so either white chocolate dyed with a little bit of powder color, color paste or color
gel, never liquid colors.
And I've got a bit of wax paper.
And a zip lock bag.
I've just finished making a really cute little Poke-ball candy bombs.
So if you're looking to do a little bit of a Pokemon-themed event, you could definitely
pair the 2 of these together.
They look absolutely fantastic.
So let's get started.
Now the first thing that we want to do is we're going to take that lollipop stick and
you want to dip it about a centimeter or so in that yellow chocolate.
And then, there should be a little bit of a flat bottom where you've been drying it
or setting it in the fridge.
So I'm just going to insert that stick about halfway into that ball.
So that's going to give you a really nice little chocolate seal.
We're going to sit that over here to fully dry.
Now I did that first.
You can put it in the fridge to accelerate the drying process of that chocolate.
But I did that first because I know that we're going to pipe our little ears.
Okay, I've also got a pair of scissors here.
So I'm just going to just pour a little bit of that candy melt into our zip lock bag.
This is just going to act like a little bit of a piping bag.
With these ears, I suggest piping a few extra than you think you're going to need because
there will be some that going to come out a little bit [wonky] or you're not quite happy
with the size and you may break 1 or 2.
So I'm just going to cut just a very fine little tip off that bag.
And that's just going to fashion our zip lock bag into a bit of a makeshift piping bag.
Now, for Pikachu's ears, what you're looking for is just sort of, I guess, a bit of an
arc on 1 side and a bit of an arc on the other.
So don't make these too fat.
And once you've got your little outline, just pipe in a little bit more of that chocolate
and then, without even squeezing, I'm just using the bag just to push that chocolate
down into those little outline bits.
There's 1 ear.
Now here's the tricky part is getting the 2 of them relatively even.
They're not too bad at all.
So just piping at your 2nd ear.
So pop those off into the fridge for about 5 minutes or so until they're fully set.
When they come out, they're going to come off that wax paper really really easily.
Now as I mentioned, I've pre-prepared a couple just for a little bit of ease of time for
us today.
So what we're going to do is, first of all, we're going to get your ears at the ready,
ears and your little cheeks.
And you want to take that cakepop ball, that seal will be nice and set now.
And we're going to dip it into our yellow chocolate.
Make sure that that chocolate meets all the way up and just covers that yellow candy melt
seal or that yellow chocolate seal.
And then I'm just going to just tap off any excess as I turn the cakepop.
Alright, now you don't want to let that set too much before you add in your ears.
So I'm just going to turn the ball around and just find your best side, so the neatest-looking
side and then I'm going to put in one of Pikachu's ears mainly into the chocolate, but just ever
so slightly pushing it into that ball.
And then I'm going to pop the other one off out on a little bit of an angle.
This one here I actually want a little bit...
Perfect.
So you should have 1 that's sort of sticking up and the other 1 going out on an angle.
Now, you want to take those little cheeks and you want to put those cheeks right sort
of down about the bottom quarter in line with those ears.
Perfect.
Now you want to let that completely set before we go and do any of the detailing.
Alright, so I've let my little Pikachu completely dry.
Now, we want to start adding a little bit of the detailing.
So we're just going to dip just the tips of his ears on a bit of an angle into that black
candy melt.
So you'll see that I've used quite a shallow ball for my candy melt.
Perfect.
And then the other one.
Make sure that you're looking at them as you do it so that you can just sort of see how
far you're dipping and what sort of an angle you're getting them on.
Perfect.
There's our little dipped ears.
Now, you want to do your mouth next.
So we're going to do the mouth, just dipping in.
You can use a zip lock bag here as a bit of a piping bag but I found it just as easy and
that I had a bit more control.
Just dipping in with the toothpick and just starting in the center on 1 cheek.
And you can choose what expression you want your little Pokemon to have.
I just went with a relatively easy one which is just his little smile.
And then for the eyes.
So for the eyes you want to take, I guess, a decent amount on that toothpick.
So you can see there, I've actually got quite a bit on the toothpick and then I'm going
to place 1 blob down for his eye.
Wipe off that toothpick.
And I'm just going to use the same toothpick just to take a, I guess, a little bit of that
tip off the eye.
Because when you use a toothpick to pop the eye down, it's going to leave, I guess, a
little bit of a pointy tip.
Now I'm going to take that other toothpick.
I'm going to dip it in the water and that's just going to moisten it so that I can use
it to pick up just a couple of these little white sprinkles.
So you only want 1 and then you just decide where you want to position his eye ball depending
on where you want him to be looking.
So just push it in with that toothpick and it gives him the little bright of his eyes
and just really brings him to life.
Now as I mentioned, you can white chocolate for that but I prefer to use the white sprinkles
just because they're always a consistent size and they give it a little bit of a 3-dimensional
bright of the eye.
Just moving on to the 2nd eye.
We can repeat that process.
Perfect.
And we're almost finished.
We just want to wipe off that toothpick and just take a little bit more and give him a
little tiny nose.
So there you've got your gorgeous little Pikachu Pokemon cakepop.
If you love this cakepop, make sure that you check out our Poke-ball candy bombs.
They're really sweet and they've got a gorgeous little candy surprise inside.
They'll match perfectly with these Pikachu cakepops.
As always, thanks very much for tuning in to My Cupcake Addiction.