LOL Bon Bon in Cakesicle form
Here they are all ready to go to the party - 36 of those little buggers.
I hate the mushy combination of cake and icing that most cake pops are made of, so instead I use a combination of brownie and chocolate chip cookies. The brownies are a little under baked so there is no need to mix them with frosting, and they stay moist and delicious for days.
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I coat my cakesicle mold with Ghiradelli white melting wafers, and once that is set I pack the brownie mix into the cavity. More white chocolate goes on the top, and then I just let it firm up overnight before I start decorating.
For the Bon Bon cakesicle decorations, I made a paper template from an image of Bon Bon. I had one template from the blue hair in the front and one template each for the yellow and pink portions of hair. For the decorations I used Choco-Pan's White Covering Chocolate instead of fondant. I think the covering chocolate just tastes better. I cut out the blue portion of hair and stuck it on the front of the cakesicle.
The yellow and pink pieces were cut next....
I stuck the two together before I curled it around the top, back and sides of the cakesicle.
Next I rolled out some rope from the yellow and pink chocolate, cut them into 3" lengths, and curled them into little Bon Bon's hair buns. I stuck them to the cakesicle with a little dab of melted white chocolate. I tried using water as a glue, but they kept falling off.
The eyes came next. I cut out thin circles of white, blue, and black and stacked them together. I stretched them a little to make them more oval shaped.
I rolled a thin rope of black fondant, tapered it at both ends and positioned it over the top of the stacked eye to form a sort of eyelid.
I put the eye on the cakesicles and added pink eyebrows, a mouth, and a little ball for a nose. Notice that the color of the nose doesn't match the color of the skin? To make the white chocolate match the skin tone of the actual Bon Bon doll, I added a touch of Fleshtone/Copper food gel to the white chocolate before I coated the cakesicle mold. I forgot to tint the white covering chocolate but once I put the nose on the cakesicle I realized my mistake and made the nose color match the skin color. I also couldn't get the nose to stick to the face. I tried pushing some nostrils in the nose hoping it would make it stick to the face, but the nostrils made the nose too pig-like. In the end I just stuck the round ball to the face using a touch of melted white chocolate.
Making Bon Bon's eye glasses were a PITA. I rolled out the covering chocolate (stiffened with a bit of Tylose powder) and cut it into strips. I used a wider strip for the top part of the glasses, and two narrower strips to form the loops. I pushed the looped section into the top section and used a bit of water as glue.
After allowing the glasses dry overnight, I stuck the eye glass to the face using - you guessed it - white chocolate. So what do you think? Do they look like Bon Bon?
Happy Decorating,
Carol
Supply List:
Cakesicle mold
Ghiradelli white melting wafers
Choco-Pan's White Covering Chocolate
Mini Circle Cutter
Fleshtone/Copper food gel
Sky Blue food gel
Pink food gel
Buttercup Yellow food gel
Tylose powder
