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BROWNIE POPS 8-CAVITY SILICONE MOLD
When I purchased my mold, I bought it at Wal-Mart and it did not say "brownie" mold on it, the packaging said "cake pop" mold
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So I purchased one and tried it out with Duncan Hines Butter Golden Cake Mix to make cake pops.
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| Courtesy of Duncan Hines website |
I made the cake following the recipe on the back of the box, as you normally would.
If you are tired of the same old vanilla cake this is an absolutely delicious substitute. You will need water, 3 whole eggs, and 7 tbs of butter. (I used baking margarine).
Then I began with my new "Cake Pop" mold
You can purchase your mold at Wal-Mart, Wilton.com, K-mart, and I am sure if you Google, or Bing it you will find it for sale elsewhere. I think I only paid $9.99 for mine, in store.
Let's Begin
Follow my advice and definitely spray and flour your mold.
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| Photo copyright Cynthia Zuehl 2016 |
I used Wilton Bake Easy spray because I found it on sale. However, you can use the spray you are used to or like. I personally like this spray because it washes clean from pans and does not seem to leave behind sticky residue.
Spray each of the 8 cups in the pan in a circular motion to ensure you get all sides. Do not over spray or you will have flour that falls completely out of the pan when tapping in the next step.
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| copyright Cynthia Zuehl 2016 Then sprinkle the flour in each of the 8 holes, I was messy with it and in a hurry as I had already made a batch and they were cooling and I needed to quickly move them to another rack. Once you have the flour in the cups, take it to the sink and tap as you roll the pan just as you would a rounded cake pan. Do this until all cups are completely covered with flour. Then flip over and tap the back side to get all excess flour out of the mold. |
Now some folks say you do not have to flour and set your mold. If you do not do this with regular cake your pops Will stick to the sides or top and will not come completely out. I tried it twice, not too cute! It looked like my cake was ravaged by a mouse, some looked like they had been at war with each other.
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| copyright Cynthia Zuehl 2016 |
This is what your pan will look like after completely coated. Note that the top right 2 you can see I sprayed a bit too much baking spray.
(sorry about the bluish filter and not fixing the pics right away)
copyright Cynthia Zuehl 2016
Once you have set your pan/mold, you may begin to pour in your batter. I used a pouring type measuring cup to pour my batter into the mold. I poured batter to the line on the top of each cavity in the mold. You could use less by all means, I just wanted to ensure that all my pops had a chance to be the same size.
Place the mold on a baking sheet in the middle of the oven at the temperature that is on the back of your cake box recipe.
Once the cake is finished baking, when they are golden brown on the top, take the mold out and sit it on a cooling rack.
Once the cakes are cool enough to touch, you must, as in making a regular cake, cut off the rounded bottom part even with the pan, This makes the cakes sit even and are all same size.
To do this use a steak or bread knife with severe serrated edged and cut in a level saw like slow motion. This will ensure that you do not get broken, squished, cakes. You will also have little to no crumbles.
Once you have cut the tops off the little cakes you can put them in a bowl and snack on them, or you may freeze them for later use in hand made cake pops.
Now that all your cakes are even at the bottom, you may flip the mold over onto a metal cooling rack and pull gently on the sides of the pan where the handles are. This ensures a perfect release every time.
From here I like to fully cool my "pops" for 2 hours so that they are nice and solid.
For this I place the cooled pops onto a parchment paper lined pan, then place the pan in the refrigerator.
(Again sorry about the blue filter I did not have a chance to fix my pics before posting. )
As you can see these pops are egg shaped, they are not round, and will have a flat bottom. Had I known this was an actual brownie mold I would not have attempted making actual cake type pops.
Regular cake is too light and fluffy and the stick will not stay in them no matter how much you try, therefore they cannot be an actual "cake pop". A pound cake or very dense cake may work however.
The issue is that the cake is not stable, once the bottom is cut off there is nothing for the stick to adhere to. I attempted using the round end and here again, my stick just broke out of the side because the cake was too light and fluffy. Even with the pops refrigerated for the 2 hours they were not firm. ( I tried traditional white lolly/ cake pop sticks as well as the cake pop straws see below)
I did however, use them as truffles and bon-bons, they are super cute. You can make them as little eggs for Easter too. I make lots and lots of cake pops by hand, it is much easier and much cleaner and takes less time than this mold does.
If you really want the stick and do not care if it stays in or not you can do this:
I have not tried brownies yet, but now that I have read some other comments on other websites, and I will definitely try brownies in this pan and see how that turns out. If you want round pops you will NOT get them with this pan, they will be egg shaped.
I hope this helped!
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