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Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Rainbow Cakepop Tutorial where I'll be showing you
how to make these gorgeous and relatively easy rainbow cakepops.
We've done a couple of rainbow cakepop tutorials on our channel, My Cupcake Addiction, but
you guys seem to love them so I want to give you this option which is by far the easiest
of the three. Tools and equipment that we will be using
today: I have a polystyrene block which I use just
for drying my cakepops in. I've got some mini M&Ms and I have sorted
those out in these little containers, really I guess, I've left 3 colors in each container.
It doesn't really matter. It's just so that I can grab them quite easily while that melted
chocolate is still wet. I've got some blue chocolate. Now you can
either use blue candy melts. I've used some white chocolate and I've just dyed it with
a little bit of Wilton sky blue color paste and I do like to add about 20 grams of Copha,
Crisco or shortening to my white chocolate or to any of my chocolate candy melts, whatever
it might be. That's just to thin it out a little bit and that just going to give us
a bit of dipping consistency. I've got a pair of scissors.
Some lollipop sticks. 2 teaspoons.
I've got a zip lock bag. And I've got my cakepop mix. Now this is cakepop
mix. To avoid any confusion, this is cooked cake, alright? So this is actually the off
cuts of my giant rainbow layer cupcake for those of you that watch that tutorial. This
is cooked cake mix with frosting. So what I like to do... You've got 2 options. You
can either make a batch of vanilla cakepop mix which you would do by using our chocolate
cakepop recipe -- link below -- and using vanilla cake instead of chocolate cake. You've
got yourself vanilla cakepop mix. You can then split that into 5 portions and color
it with food paste coloring to achieve these colors. Otherwise, as I've done here, you
can actually bake the cake in the desired colors. You can split a batch of cupcakes
into 12 and color 2 cupcakes in each different color and just crumble down the colored cake
with a bit of that vanilla frosting. Let's get started.
Now the first thing we want to do is make our cakepop ball. Now this is what I mean
by easy. This is the effect that we're going to get. You can see the inside of the cakepop.
Grab your different colors. So we're going to take just a little chunk of red, a chunk
of orange, a chunk of yellow, a chunk of blue, a chunk of green. Now I don't have purple.
I didn't want purple. It's not that I don't like it. I just didn't have any purple food
coloring so I know that I've left it out. Please don't hate me.
Now I'm going to just roll that. What I've done is I've just squeezed it quite tight
between my hands just once to compact it all. And then roll it into a nice little cakepop
ball. Now for me, that's a touch small. So just to show you how easy it is to add or
subtract, I'm going to take a little bit more orange. Pop it over there. Don't put it too
close to the other orange. Give it a squeeze and roll. Still a little bit small? Add a
little bit more of another color. These are so easy, you can add, you can take away.
Just be careful. You don't want to roll them for ages and ages. You don't want to [smoosh]
them in between your hands too much because you don't want them turning into a brown mess.
We do want to keep those nice distinguished colors.
There you have your rainbow cakepop ball. We're going to pop that into the refrigerator
for at least 15 minutes so that it's nice and firm.
Now because I knew I was doing this tutorial, I have one here that I've already got nice
and firm. And I'm going to just insert our lollipop stick. So I'm going to take that
lollipop stick. Dip it into that melted blue chocolate. And turning it upside down so I've
got that slightly flat bottom, just insert that lollipop stick. Now that one's going
to go off into the fridge for further 15 minutes until that ball is really firm. You don't
want to freeze it. You don't want it to be icy cold but you do want it to be nice and
chilled and nice and firm. Okay, so we're back from the fridge and I'm
happy that that chocolate seal is nice and set on my lovely rainbow cakepop ball.
Now with my chocolate, I want to just take a spoon. And you always want to give it that
a nice stir because it does settle up. I've been [setting] and talking for a couple of
minutes. It was all microwaved just before I start a bit but you can see it does just
set a little bit. So you want it to be as fluid as it can be. So give it a good stir
just before you start dipping. Then we're going to take that lovely rainbow
cakepop ball. And we're going to dip. We're going to give it a nice little twist so that
that blue chocolate meets up with that lovely blue seal. Pull it out. And I'm just going
to tap off any excess. Now while that's still relatively wet, so
you do want to work quite quickly here. We're going to take the M&Ms. So with these M&Ms,
I am just going to position them in my little color scheme which for me is red, orange,
yellow, green, blue and I'm going to use pink because there isn't a purple M&M.
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Maybe subscribe if you like what you see. So you can see there, I've just done a second
line of little M&Ms behind. Now on either side where I've got the pink and the red,
I'm just going to do an additional pink and an additional red just to give us that lovely
rainbow shape. And then we can pop that into the polystyrene to dry.
Now I wanted to show you while that one is drying in the polystyrene... I wanted to show
you how to fix a crack in a cakepop. This happens to me while I was making the demos
for this. You can see there, there's big dirty crack in the middle of our beautiful cakepop.
Something that happens all the time. It's not your fault. It's not anything that you're
doing but it will be something that will happen to all of us while cakepop-ing. And a lot
of people end up throwing the cakepop out or discarding it. You don't have to. You won't
be able to get it back to perfect again but we can get it pretty close. So to fix that
crack, just take your finger, the best tool there is, and just push some of that colored
chocolate or candy melt into that crack. Now, I like to just work it so that it's going
in. And just smooth it off. So there you have... As you can see, you can
still kind of see where that crack has been but it's pretty much good as new and definitely
good to use. Now I'm happy that one there is pretty dry
so I'm going to take my snap lock bag and a little bit of this melted white chocolate.
And that's just straight melted white chocolate or white candy melt is fine. Spoon them into
the snap lock bag. It's a bit of overkill. You really don't need very much of the white
chocolate just to do this little bit of detail work. Squeeze any excess air out of the bag
before closing it. Taking those scissors, we're just going to
snip off a little corner. It doesn't really matter how big or how small that corner is.
And taking your lovely blue rainbow cakepop, we're just going to pipe on some cloud. So
it's as easy as just ... a bit of a cloud shape. Squiggle.
So there you have your absolutely gorgeous, really, really, easy, rainbow cakepop. Pair
this with some of our other fantastic rainbow items. We've got rainbow cupcakes. We've got
giant rainbow cupcakes. We've got other rainbow cakepops and we've got rainbow jelly jars.
So definitely make sure that you go on and check out some of our other fantastic rainbow
goodies and hit the Subscribe if you like what you see.
Thanks very much for watching.