So, I'm (hopefully) making octopus cake pops. Ideally modeled on this guy that I made an impulse purchase of:
So my first challenge is figuring out how to just structure the damn pop!
Would you make an oblong ball and attach a round ball (somehow) to it, like so?
Or would you make one big oval and just kind of squeeze a little dent? It sounds more secure, but not really a great look.
and either way, where would you put the stick - the thickest part or in the center of the weight?
If anyone has any suggestions (am I going to have to do fondant legs? But then I'd have to cover the whole thing in fondant/modeling chocolate) I'd super appreciate it!
UGH! Maybe I should just do a sea lion.
(oh, this isn't for pay or anything -- I"m a complete and total amateur.)
my suggestion is to make it small and use a cookie for the legs and part of the body — or make it out of chocolate aka candy clay — but at best it would be fragile with all those skinny legs and blobby bodies — where you would score on duplicating the look of it is in the coloration —
no, I got it — use homemade (obviously) candied lemon, orange, and/or grapefruit peal!! for legs & part of the body — the recipe is google-able and it might take a few tries to get it right but it might not —
candied peal is repeatedly boiled in sugar water, the water is discarded and repeated over and over till the taste is right —
I think that will really work oh yeah forgot to mention that another thing that would work is pate a choux batter — cream puff dough — it’s pipeable and would also work well for the skinny legs
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