Beer (Guinness) Mug Cake Pops

I've been meaning to post this for awhile....

 

 In keeping with the miniature theme lately, this week a few weeks ago I made miniature beer mugs. We are attending attended an Augtoberfest party and thought these would be a good contribution. Plus, I've never made cake pops before and wanted to try it out. I got this book for Christmas, and this was my first time making them. I recommend the book, or visiting her blog, if you want detailed instructions.

This activity took me a few nights. The first night was solely devoted to baking the cake. The second night I rolled the cake balls. This involved crumbling the cake, mixing with icing (store-bought of course), then forming into the shape of balls.

Adding icing to my cake crumbs

Okay, I forgot to take a picture of the balls, but these are in the mug form.

Enter day three. After refrigerating these suckers, it came time for the candy coating. I quickly learned that you can't just put a stick in these and go immediately into the candy dunking. If you do, balls of cake get lost in the candy goo. I had much greater success dipping the lollipop stick into the melted candy, sticking it into the cake pop, then allowing to cool. THEN proceeding into the candy dunking.

Awaiting a candy dunk

In the meantime I rolled and made a few mug handles fashioned from gum paste (once again, store-bought).

Turns out there was no need for that rolling pin you see here.

After heating up some candy in the microwave each cake got a dunk. I immediately gave them each a handle before the candy coating cooled. Sadly the beer color ended up a bit darker than I had anticipated, and so rather than some pale ales, they ended looking more like Guinness beer mugs.

Almost done

And lastly, I added a frothy finish...

So they ended up being a hit at the party. Would I make them again? Eh.... I would probably stick with some simple round cake balls in the future.