Some kitchen equipment is wonderful, some is entirely useless to me.
Useful:
- A good knife!
- Food processor
- Apple slicers (if your laziness is keeping your from preparing a smoothie)
- muffin baking tins!
- a bains-marie
Useless:
- Cake pop baking tins.
Seriously. Nobody needs those cake pop baking tins. I don't own one and that's not going to change. Friends of mine have tried them, only to complain about oddly shaped, not so great tasting, rather dry cake pops. Here is why you don't need one: You have hands (if not, I apologize for making this assumption). Making cake pops requires any cake tin that you already have, a good cake recipe, some other ingredients and hands that don't mind getting knuckle-deep in cake and jam.
Ingredients for my Chocolate Raspberry Cake Pops:
Please not that you can really bake any cake as the cake basis for this. If you really love lemon cake pops, make a lemon cake!
- 200g of buckwheat flour (if you don't care about the gluten-free part, you can use any flour)
- 50g of cocoa powder
- 200g of sugar (I used unrefined raw cane sugar)
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 240ml of water
- real vanilla or some vanilla flavor (I used vanillin sugar)
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 80ml of oil (sunflower, canola... just make sure it doesn't taste too strong)
- 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar
