OctoPops {tutorial}

A few weeks ago I was contacted to create octopus cake pops for an under the sea birthday party. Well, the rain delayed the party and I created these über sweet octupus brownie pops late Friday night. Cake pops and I have a love hate relationship. I finally have it down what works for me, brownies! Their dense enough and remain moist once coated. Aren’t they the cutest?

Here’s what you’ll need:

1 box brownie mix (avoid any variety with chocolate chips) bake according to the cake-like directions. Under cook slightly. Let cool and then crumble. Slightly squish the crumbs together into a ball releasing oils and roll until even.

2 bags of melting chocolate, I used purple and blue

36 candy eyes

black edible marker

18 sticks

pastry bags

parchment paper

Once you have the brownie balls rolled out melt a small amount of chocolate in the microwave at 30 second intervals. Dip one stick at a time into melted chocolate and gently place half way into brownie. Repeat until done. Let these sit for about 10-15 minutes to ensure chocolate has completely hardened.

While your waiting on the chocolate to harden draw circles and tentacles onto paper.

Place parchment paper over the paper and tape the corners down.

Melt 1 cup of chocolate and place melted chocolate into pastry bag. Cut a small hole at the end of the bag. Start piping a tentacle first and outlining the circle as you go into each tentacle. Once you have piped all the chocolate, dip the brownie balls into chocolate and place immediately onto piped chocolate. Let the chocolate harden for a few minutes before placing eyes onto the face. If the chocolate becomes too hard take a small amount of chocolate onto a stick and dab a bit onto the back of the eye and attach. Once the chocolate has hardened all the way draw a mouth on.

Now you have these cute under the sea creatures to add to your party!

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