Punk Chick Pops

I like creating cake pops that have attitude.  My husband requested chick cake pops (his favorite) for his birthday, so I thought I'd make him not just chick cake pops, but Punk Chick Pops!

Okay, so if you want to know about how to make the basic chick pop, go here.  If you already know how to make the basic chick cake pop, read on!

I started with Wilton's white candy melts, since I didn't have any of the yellow ones on hand.  I also added some paramount crystals to them- if you look closely, you can see them in the photo to the left.

I added yellow and a little orange oil-based coloring to it until I got to the color of yellow I wanted.  Here you can see how pretty it is when mixed into the melted candy coating.  I should consider dipping pops when the coating looks like this.  It would look really cool, I think!

To make these little guys 'punk', I simply added mohawk-style hair to their little heads.

The hair is really, really easy to do.  Simply get a toothpick and some extra melted candy coating.  As the candy coating begins to cool, it gets thicker.  You put a bit of the candy coating on the toothpick, then with upward dabbing motions, you add the hair.  I find that it's easiest to work with candy coating that is slightly cool and thick for this effect.  If it's too hot, it will be too thin to stand up and make the cool spiky effect.

Another thing I discovered about making these chick cake pops, is that you don't need candy coated chocolate chips for the wings, as suggested in the book Cake Pops by Bakerella.  Yes, the candy coated chocolate chips are a great touch, and I like them a lot.  But what do you do when your cake pop color and the candy coated chocolate chip colors don't match?  Simple!  You create the wings with extra candy coating!  Using a similar technique as creating 'hair', you can easily dab on two spots of candy coating to resemble 'wings'.

Here you can see the candy coating 'wings' very well.  I think they work quite nicely, and the color matches perfectly.

This little guy looks like he's got a breeze blowin' through his hair.

This chick pop has more conservative hair, but is still really happy to be here!