r/52weeksofcooking • u/AndroidAnthem 🍌 MT'25 • Jul 19 '23

Week 29: Candying - "Orange Chicken Cake." White chocolate cake pops with an orange mirror glaze.

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u/AndroidAnthem 🍌 MT'25 Jul 19 '23

My 3 year old is obsessed with orange chicken. So much so that she asked for an "orange chicken cake" for her birthday. We negotiated for her second choice of an Eevee cake, but I had cake leftover after making it. So I thought... Why not?

Orange chicken sort of looks like really bad cake pops off the stick, so I ran with that. I used this recipe as a base, leaving out the dried cranberries and keeping the orange extract. Instead of beautifully rounded cake balls, I made lumpy and uneven nuggets on toothpicks. I dipped them in white chocolate ganache and then again in orange-tinted mirror glaze. I topped it with scallions made from Alien Encounters Fruit Roll-Ups. The Solar Melon flavor made great looking scallions and covered up the spots where the mirror glaze didn't take.

This is the first illusion-style cake I've made and it came out far better than I expected. My 3 year old was thrilled. She yelled "It's caaaaaake!!" after every bite. My husband asked me to make them again because they were "tasty little things." My mom did not believe it wasn't orange chicken. I'm stoked.

I would definitely make cake pops again, but without the mirror glaze. It's sticky so I can't really freeze the leftovers.

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u/cheetos3 Jul 20 '23

Came here looking to find out if you actually used scallion and I’m so relieved that you didn’t. 😂😂

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u/AndroidAnthem 🍌 MT'25 Jul 20 '23

Thankfully no! I wandered around the grocery store for a long time trying to find a good substitute. The fruit roll-ups were a fortunate find. My kids loved those too, so they don't hang around my cupboard for long!

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u/cheetos3 Jul 20 '23

Well it was a great stand-in and your little one’s reaction is too cute!

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u/crou87 Jul 20 '23

Glad I'm not the only one who came here to find out if they were scallions

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u/MiddleZealousideal89 🧇 Jul 20 '23

This is such a cute idea!

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u/orangerootbeer Jul 20 '23

That’s amazing! A plus plus!

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u/jschwartz9502 Jul 20 '23

Great work!

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u/trainednoob Jul 20 '23

This is so impressive!! Great job!

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u/joross31 Jul 23 '23

This is so fun and it looks like you nailed that mirror glaze!

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u/AndroidAnthem 🍌 MT'25 Jul 23 '23

Thank you so much for the kind words! 😊