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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.