Easy Chistmas Cake Pops & Petit Fours Gift
These super easy Christmas cake pops and petit fours are the PERFECT gift if you need to make something last minute. This recipe uses blended fruitcake, melted chocolate and edible cake decorations of your choice.
Servings: 30 cakepops
Calories: 164kcal
Ingredients
- 700 g Fruit cake or Christmas Cake
- Lollypop sticks or Petit Four cases
- 400 g chocolate or 200g milk and 200g white
- Betty Winters Christmas cake decorations
- Cake pop holder
Instructions
- Blitz the fruit cake in a food processor.
- Transfer to a freezer safe bowl, cover clingfilm and freeze for 30 minutes to 1 hour to firm up.
- Remove the fruit cake from the freezer and roll in to 2 pence size balls and place on a lined baking tray. The poke in some lollypop sticks. (SKIP the lollypop stick step is using petit fours instead).
- Now pop in the freezer for another 30 minutes.
- Then break up the chocolate and place in a microwaveable bowl and melt in short bursts.
- Remove the fruitcake from the freezer again and stir in to the melted chocolate. Angle it to remove excess and avoid drips. FOR PETIT FOURS: Pick up with cocktail sticks, dip them in to chocolate and place in the petit four cases instead.
- Then immediately decorate with edible cake decorations and place in the cake pop holder and place in the fridge to set.
Nutrition
Calories: 164kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 16mg | Potassium: 39mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 18IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 34mg | Iron: 1mg