Rose pops

This is not my original idea - I have seeing it done before while looking around on google, not entirely sure who to give the credit to, however I did see roses and then had a play with ways of making these and want to share what I came up with to create these sweet edible roses. I had planned on making these again and having some better photos for this blog post but got rather busy, and well valentines day in around the corner so I made an executive decision to do the post with my first attempt ones rather than wait.
Basically if you have made fondant or gum paste roses this is very much the same thing except that you have cake/cookie pop mixture in the middle.
As with most things there are many ways to create a similar thing - a long way and a short way, well which ever way you go with these they do take time, but are definitely worth the effort.
I did the long version - Made my own modeling chocolate, and made chocolate mud cake and ganache to make the cake balls.

What you need -
Cake pop/ball mix (cake crumbs mixed with icing of some sort OR cookie crumbs mixed with cream cheese OR fudge)
Chocolate or candy melts in a colour of your choice (I went with red candy melts)
Modeling chocolate OR fondant (I made my own Red modeling chocolate and used green fondant for the calyx - got a bit lazy)
Sticks (I use the white 'paper' cookie sticks - that's what I call them)
Rose petal cutter
Calyx cutter
Rolling pin

Shape the cake pop mixture into tear drop shapes, dip the end of the stick into melted chocolate and insert into the fatter end of the teardrop cake ball. Chill these in the fridge.

Once these are chilled coat/dip into chocolate. Allow chocolate to set.

Make the rose petals -
Roll the fondant or modeling chocolate out thin and cut out petals, thin out the edges of the petals.
Wrap a petal around the cake pop forming a point at the top, wrap the next petal overlapping, add 3 more petals over lapping each one to form a rose bud. Add 5 more petals to finish the full rose.

Finish the roses off by cutting a calyx from the green fondant and slide it up the stick and onto the base of the rose, using a little bit of water to attach it.

Done ! I appologise in advance for the lack of certain details in this post - I just wanted to get it out before Valentines day and well being 3am it's either do it like this or wait for a few weeks when/if I quieten down.


Bunch of Rose Pops



Inside Rose bud