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Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Frankenstein Cakepop Tutorial where I'll be showing you
how to make this great spooky Frankenstein cakepop -- perfect for Halloweens, scary parties
or any other spooky occasion you can think of.
Tools and equipment that we will be using today:
I keep a polystyrene block just for resting my cakepops in while I'm working on them.
I have some lollipop sticks. A zip lock bag.
A pair of scissors. I have some melted green candy melt or candy
wafers. I use Wilton brand. I will mention with this [layer] quite thick when you melt
them down so I do like to add approximately 20 grams of Copha, Crisco or shortening to
every 100 grams of candy melts just to thin them out and make them a little bit easier
to dip. I've got a little bit of melted dark chocolate.
You don't actually need very much of this. 5 or 6 is probably all you need.
I've got some black food dye. You can use either liquid or paste. I've used paste and
I've just diluted it with a tiny bit of water so that it's nice and liquid-y for me to use
for just some fine painting. I've got 2 mini-M&Ms in brown, 2 normal-sized
M&Ms in brown, and I've got a couple of just a small baking marshmallows. You only need
one of these per cakepop. Let's get started.
Firstly, we need to make our cakepop ball into the right shape. For those of you that
don't have a great recipe and tutorial of recipe and method for cakepop balls, we've
got a really good one on our channel. It will show you how to get your cakepop balls to
this lovely shape, size and consistency -- recipe and ingredients included.
Now firstly we want to make it into the right shape. So you can see here, the shape of Frankenstein's
head really is quite flat on top. It's not the round ball that you see.
So I'm going to take this round ball. I will mention this has been in the fridge for about
the last 5 or 10 minutes just to make it nice and firm to work with. See here I'm just flattening
it down and I'm pinching the bottom. I'm just going to flatten the head. If you want a really
nice flat head, give it a good smack on the bench and then just flatten him down. So it
should sort of almost resemble a bit of a chunky love heart without the indent in the
middle, really nice and flat on top. Now it's time to pop the lollipop stick into
the bottom of our cakepop. So I'm just going to dip that lollipop stick into the candy
melt and just insert it into the bottom of Frankenstein's head. See I'm just lengthening
that out again. I did push it up a little bit when I inserted that stick. So you want
to make sure you keep that lovely length and that lovely shape that you've worked so hard
to get. I'm going to let that sit for just a minute or two while the lovely green seal
dries. While I'm doing that, we're going to make
the eyes of Frankenstein. So to make the eyes, I'm taking one of these baking marshmallows,
snip it in half. It is as easy as that. You'll see they stretch out of shape a little bit,
it's not a problem. Just use your fingers for them to regain shape. Beautiful. Now you
can rest there until we're ready for them. Alright, so I'm happy that lovely chocolate
seal has set. Time for dipping. As I mentioned, candy melts are quite a bit thicker than regular
chocolate. So when I dip, I just place it in, pull it out, place it in, pull it out,
place it in, just like that until we've met up with that lovely chocolate seal and cover
it with the candy melt seal I should say. Give it a little shake off. You should have
something that looks like this. Now, I want to pop his eyes on. With the eyes,
there'll be a sticky side and a non-sticky side. I like to put them on with the non-sticky
side facing out. I'm going to put them down quite low in the head. (Inaudible 04:00) quite
a big forehead... does those two. Don't be afraid to give them a little wiggle around
because it's got quite a saggy kind of a saggy face, saggy eyes, a bit of saggy skin around
there. I'm going to take the 2 larger M&Ms which
are going to form his ears. Put them quite low down as well. And we're just going to
give that a few minutes to set. Now just bear in mind...You might want to just move them
around a little bit because that candy melt coating is still quite wet. Some of your decorations
made slide a little so keep your eye on them. Don't walk away. You don't want anything to
drag off or fall off. Okay, so while we're still just waiting for
that coat to dry, we're going to get the dark chocolate into this zip lock bag. So just
open up your zip lock bag, pour in some dark chocolate, and make sure you close that zip
lock bag all the way across or else the chocolate will almost certainly pop out any holes from
the top. I'm just going to push down the dark chocolate all down to one corner. And taking
the scissors, I'm just going to snip off a very small corner of the bag.
Now this is going to become a bit of a piping bag. I'm trying to do it over my dark chocolate
bowl. There might be a little bit of dripping. What we basically want to do here is just
paint on the outline for his hair. Start at the back if you're a bit more comfortable
with it because you get to practice just a little bit more. See I'm just zigzagging around.
Don't get too close to his eyes. He does have quite a large forehead. Once you've got a
lovely baldish outline, just fill it in with your chocolate. This is probably the fiddliest
part of this cakepop. Alright, he's sitting there now with his hair
on. I'm going to do his eyeballs. You can have him facing him any way you like. Where
you put his eyeballs will change his expressions quite dramatically. So I think I'm just going
to pop in just down here. He'll be looking at something down below.
Alright, now I want to pop the bolts on his neck. To pop the bolts on, I'm just going
to take just a spare lollipop stick and put a nice dollop on either side of that lollipop
stick. Take the 2 mini-M&Ms and just pop them on. Beautiful. You can just neaten that up
a little bit, giving him a little neck with a couple of bolts in it.
Alright now, finally, we want to give him the mouth and some nice scarring -- probably
not nice scarring but some scarring. As I mentioned, I've got a little bit of black
food coloring in this little container. I've just popped it with a couple of drops of water
just so that it's relatively thin. I'm going to dip my cocktail stick in there and I'm
going to give him a nice long straight mouth. Forgive me, I'm doing this upside down. And
I'm going to make the mouth like a bit of a scar. You can make him a little bit less
scary, give him a bit of a smile if he's going to be for the children. But he's generally
a pretty [server] chap. And the side of the face...a couple of scars. Here we go.
Now that is your finished Frankenstein cakepop. You can see down here we've got a whole lot
of other cakepops -- a spooky tarantula, a mummy, there's some witches on channel. So
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