http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2008/04/make-your-cupcakes-pop.html
Go to Bakerella's site above to see photos ......below I've listed her tips on how to do these so you don't have to spend hours reading the comments.
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I used chocolate cake and cream cheese frosting for the pops. You can use any flavor combo you like. The bark I buy is like small bricks of chocolate. It also says candy coating on the package.
you can use any cake you like. It just needs to be crumbled pretty good when you add the frosting - You can also add any frosting you want, Just use the equivalent to what you would find in a can of ready made frosting or about 2 cups.
Anonymous - Sure, you can go to www.MarthaStewart.com and search cupcake pops. There's a video and recipe
I found it at Williams-Sonoma, but I'm not sure if they still sell them. I used it to form the bottom part of the cupcakes. Next time, I'll give pics. But it was actually the first time I had made these and I didn't know they were going to be such a big hit.
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The shaping is pretty simple. Roll into compact balls using your hands and chill in fridge for a while. When chilled, take a small flower cookie or round shaped cutter (almost an inch tall)and push part of ball through. Form a mound with the part that is still sticking out. Then just push the shaped ball back out from the bottom carefully. And touch up the shape using your hands. Return them to chill for a while before dipping in chocolate bark.
I will also, dip the tip of the stick in a little of the chocolate before I insert into the cupcake shape.
Use the right weight lollipop sticks, if your shapes are too heavy for the lollipop sticks it will slide off...Your lollipop sticks were too thin - if so, they make thicker ones.
Do not insert them too far to the top of the cupcake or they will slide off.
Also, the melted chocolate should surround the stick to help secure it.
After you shape the balls with the cookie cutter into cupcake shapes, chill them for a few minutes in the freezer to firm them up. Next, melt your brown chocolate bark. Dip the bottoms of the cupcake in, just to where the top mound forms. Then turn upside down and let the bark start to slide down the sides. You may want to wiggle it a little too.
Set them on the wax paper upside down and insert the lollipop sticks straight in. (It really helps that these are chilled, so the weight of the chocolate won't pull them apart.)
Get your pink chocolate heated and actually let it sit for a while so it is not too hot. Then hold the pops by the base of the cupcake and dip tops in pink chocolate just to the point where it overlaps the edge of the chocolate. Turn right side up, add decorations and place in styrofoam block.
I bought a styrofoam block and then took one of the lollipop sticks and pre-made holes to have a place for them to dry
Once they have the chocolate coating on them, they don't need to go back in the fridge before the pink is added. Just leave them out to dry and then start on the second color.
And you can even let the pink sit a little while after it is heated before you dip. Just as long as it doesn't start to harden.
Your pink was probably too hot.
Hope that helps.
If doing balls (ornaments) I use a spoon. Just drop your ball in a bowl of melted chocolate. Then lift it out with a spoon and tap the spoon on the side of your bowl to let the excess chocolate fall off. Then let the covered ball, slide off the spoon onto your wax paper.
