These baby chicks make my heart melt. Seriously. They're so fuzzy and cute. I can just leave them on my shelf and (probably) not eat them. They look even cuter sitting in their lil welcome to the world nest. Wanna see?! Well get your stuff ready because you're about to see them live, you're makin em!
You had to know. YES I am using My Little Cakepop's snowman mold for these cuties! As seen in my previous posts, just squish your already made cake pop dough into the mold and close. Voila! Baby chick body ready to go!
To make some wings just take a candy wafer and cut in half. Have your melted yellow candy melts ready, toothpicks, cake pop stand, and yellow sanding sugar to give him a nice fuzzy coat.
Next dip your stick in the candy melts and insert in the bottom of the chick. Once secure, use a toothpick to put some melted candy on the sides of him and stick on the wings like the picture. Let them dry in the stand before dipping.
Once the wings are dry, fully submerge your baby chick in yummmmmy yellow melted candy. Pull him out quickly and tap off the excess candy.
Once all the excess has run off, coat him in the sanding sugar before the candy melts set. Using a spoon sprinkle on over the bowl to catch all the extra sugar. Good job! How does yours look? I know he looks as cute as this little baby :) Set him in the stand to watch you make the cracked shell.
Roll out some white fondant not too thick and don't ask how thin because I eyeball it. Just like they do with your cheese at the deli. BAHAA. If you have these cool cutters, GREAT! If you only have the star, use it! Use whatever you have to make a cracked shell shape. Doesn't need to be perfect. It's a cracked shell. K.
Next you want to use something to make a small hole in the larger (star) shell. This is for if you would like to keep your chick on the cake pop stick like the very first picture. I just used a piping tip. Anything the size of a cake pop stick will be a-ok.
He's ready to speak so he needs a beak! Grab that container of pretty mixed hearts that you use for stuff like this! Pick out two orange hearts for the beak. Using a toothpick dab a little yellow candy on his face. Pointed side out, press on and hold a few seconds to secure each heart in the open beak look. LOL. He is so funny!
To finish his face using a toothpick dab on two little black eyeballs with your melted black chocolate. He's alive!
Slide the larger star up and using a toothpick dab some melted yellow candy on the shell. Quick before it dries, fold up and secure on the chicks body.
For the top, dab some more melted candy on and set on his head, securing all the points down and over his head.
Just like this! So cute the way they are! But I wanna put them in a little nest to fit in my BRP box shop boxes so people can give for Easter. So let's get to oreos!
Here's your set up. Hopefully you have an oreo mold to make your life easier. So many places online carry them so just google. But if you don't just throw them in your bowl of milk chocolate and fish them out with a fork setting on wax paper to dry, like the old days. HA! But as far as the oreo mold, fill each one with 2 tsp of melted milk chocolate. It's messy, so yea.
Once filled pick up your mold and drop a couple times to smooth out, see.
Drop your oreos on top of the flattened out chocolate...
Then press into the mold so that the chocolate comes up the sides and starts to cover the Oreos. Great job! So great.
If the press down didn't cover them completely just dab a little more and spread over to cover the cookies. Just like this.
And should look like this after you do that, but don't worry because we are about to do this ...
and smooth it out! Pick it up and slap it a few more times on your table to smooth and even out and get all those rising bubbles to pop. PS notice I wiped the splatter off with a clean paper towel. Do this so you don't have any freaky sticky pokies on your Oreos when they set. Ok, to set you then put in the freezer about 7 minutes. Yea I like the number 7. You don't want to take out too early because they be ugly if you do.
See nice and smooth except that one, because it didn't like the cold but its alrighty because it will be covered. Yay.
But first we need to remove the sticks. So, as before in my other posts, firm and gentle grasp on the cake pop and the stick and slowly spin the stick several times before starting to pull it out, spinning the stick as you pull it out. There. They are free!
Get your Bakerella edible grass ready and drop a blog of chocolate on top of the Oreos.
Because the Oreos are still very cold, quick get your chic and the grass on the warm chocolate before it dries. Do this for all three and....
Tada! Cute as can be! Now box them up and give them away for a Happy Easter Sunday!
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