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Kevin the Carrot Cake Pops

Recipe

Serves:  6 people | Prep time:  40 minutes

American | Vegetarian | Dessert

Ingredients

  • 280g Holly Lane angel cake
  • 100g The Pantry icing sugar
  • 50g Cowbelle salted butter
  • 1tsp Milk

To decorate

  • 250g The Pantry Ready To Roll White Icing
  • 8 drops Green food colouring
  • 10 drops orange food colouring
  • 3 Dominion strawberry laces
  • 1 Dominion liquorice allsorts (plain liquorice barrel)
  • 12 cake pop/lollipop sticks

Method

  1. Using an electric hand mixer or a wooden spoon beat together the butter, icing sugar and milk in a bowl until pale and fluffy.
  2. Take 200g of the white icing and add the orange food colouring, mix well with your hands until you have a soft ball of orange icing, repeat with the other 50g white icing adding the green food colouring and wrap in cling film.
  3. Take the angel cake and lay it flat on a board so the layers run horizontally and slice into 6 vertically going though each layer.
  4. Lay each slice flat (again so the layers run horizontal) and carve each into a carrot sharp allowing the back to remain flat but rounding off the front.
  5. Add a cake pop stick into the base and push halfway up.
  6. Cover each carrot shape with the buttercream using a butter knife.
  7. Roll out the orange icing into a large thin rectangle and cut 6 rectangles, these must be big enough to cover each carrot shape.
  8. Cover the carrot shapes with a the orange icing and wrap any excess neatly round the back and gently tease the edges down using your fingers and trim any surplus icing away with a knife.
  9. You can use a butter knife to score little carrot lines along the edges and For Kevin’s feet.
  10. Make the green carrot tops by rolling the green fondant into thin strands and cut each strand into 6 pressing them together at the base to create Kevin’s hair.
  11. Poke a little hole in the top of Kevin’s head and brush with a little water to attach his hair.
  12. Cut the liquorice into half crescent moon shapes for Kevin’s mouth and roll 12 tiny balls of liquorice for his eyes, press these into the carrot pops.
  13. Cut the strawberry laces into 12 arms and attach with a tiny bit of water.