Cake Pops: Revisited.

Hey guys!! Today I’m revisiting cake pops and, how to use left over colors. The cake pops above were an order made for my godson Jayden, who turned 5 this month. He loves the color green and, my best friend (his mom) asked me to make cake pops in different shades of green. A few days before I had made cake bites for autism. The main color for autism is blue.. so I used white and blue Candy Melts. With some Yellow Candy Coloring I was able to take the blue left over Melts and turn them into green!! Waste not, want not!! Also since I needed different shades of green.. I just continued to add blue to make it darker and then yellow to keep it in the green family.

With most things it’s easier to add then it is to take back..luckily with Candy Melts if you’ve made your color too dark you can add white Melts.. the down side.. you’ll have more than you need. So for this I started with a really light green, then gradually got really dark.. then for the zig zag lines I took a little bit of dark green, put it in a squeeze bottle and drizzled it over the lightest pops. Then added white Melts gradually getting lighter….. let’s take a look.
These are your Candy Coloring Gel. I do not know if concentrated Food Coloring will work.. I have not tried it yet. but it comes four to a pack. Red, Orange, Yellow and, Blue. I used blue to darken the baby blue I had for my Autism pops.. here I will use both Blue and Yellow.



Using left over light blue ( that was in one of my squeeze bottles, break it up and add it to your left over white. Melt. Add a drop at a time of Yellow, until you have a nice light shade of green.



Voila!!




Using this mix, dip a few of your pops. Then add a few drops of blue and yellow for the next shade. When you get to the “middle” of your batch. Add the darker blue left over and yellow.




Use this for the next 2 sets of pops. Adding drops of blue and, yellow after the first.



For the last set, I had left over Green from Saint Patrick’s Day. Remember I showed you how to save Melts by placing them in Candy Molds?? Click Here to see it again. These I removed from the molds and placed in a zip lock bag. Add pieces of this to your mix to get your darker greens for the last 2 sets.




You can see here I added the rest of the blue plus green pieces.

When all of this is done you should have cake pops that look like this
It looks like 5 but, they’re actually 6 shades of green here.

Now to finish these place the lightest cake pops in your foam holder. Put a little of the last green you used in a squeeze bottle. Drizzle it over the the light green pops, add sugar or other candy while it’s still wet. To speed up this process you can place the pops in the fridge for 5 minutes. This will harden the drizzles and, then you can package them. Add a few White Melts to your squeeze bottle (between 6-8) Melt and drizzle over the next set of pops (remember lightest to darkest).. continue this until you have finished all the pops. I had a great little helper.. My son turned on and, off the light for me so that I didn’t have to keep putting down my tray. He is AWESOME!!

Here are a few pictures of the process.


While I made these cake pops for his actual birthday party. I made cake bites for his school party..



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