Vintage Violet Cake Pops

It's my Mum's birthday this week and she loves amethyst and jewel purple colours so I made her these pretty violet pops with crystallised violet petal decoration. Happy birthday Mum!

Chocolate Macarons

These choc macs are intensely chocolately. The chocolate buttercream sandwiching them together was originally destined for a chocolate cake but makes a fine filling for these guys.

Ps. I love this tin of mine from Peyton & Byrne.

INGREDIENTS

Shells:

100g icing sugar

50g cocoa powder

100g ground almonds

2 large egg whites

Buttercream filling:

100g dark chocolate (melted and cooled)

125g unsalted butter (at room temperature)

125g icing sugar

1tsp milk

1tsp vanilla extract

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 200C and line two baking trays with baking parchment

2. Blend the icing sugar, cocoa powder and ground almonds in a food processor

3. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites with 2 tbsp of icing sugar until smooth and glossy with soft peaks 

4. Fold everything in together and transfer into a piping bag

5. Pipe 20 small circles on each tray, tap the trays on your work surface to release any air and set aside to dry out for 20 minutes

6. Turn the oven down to 180C and back for 2 mins, then 160C for 2 mins, then 140C for a further 4mins

7. Cool and sandwich together with the chocolate buttercream (made by beating everything together)

Makes 20 

Adapted from The Whoopie Pie Book.

Cake Pops on FiveGoMad

How exciting! You can now buy my cake pops online at FiveGoMad. As well as cake pops, FiveGoMad stock lots of lovely things like retro sweets from Suck & Chew and printed ceramics and teatowels from London based designer Snowden Flood.

You can, of course, just drop me a line as usual for cake quotes and pops by post too.

Sweet Love: Happy Valentines!

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If you don't fancy cake pops you can win over hearts and stomachs with the ever popular red velvet cupcakes...