Best Stranger Things Ring Pop Cakes Recipes

STRANGER THINGS WAFFLE HEART COOKIES

Steps:

• For Waffle Cookies:.
• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F and plug in waffle iron.
• In a stand mixer, cream sugars and butter until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. In a glass, mix buttermilk and vanilla. In a third bowl, mix dry ingredients, flour, salt and baking soda. Alternate mixing dry ingredients and milk mixture into your batter. Lastly, add food coloring until batter is a golden Eggo yellow.
• The next step will depend on how hot your griddle is. Mine ran very hot and was vintage, so it didn't have an adjustment setting, so my cook time had to be very short. I placed a heaping half cup of the batter onto my greased waffle iron and cooked for thirty seconds (any longer and it would brown too much and lose the Eggo coloring I was going for). After all of my cookies were pressed, I placed them on several baking sheets and baked in the oven for ten minutes each.
• For Buttercream Butter Pat:.
• In a stand mixer, beat room temp butter until fluffy. Add icing sugar one cup at a time. Add whipping cream, salt and desired color (enough yellow food coloring to turn the frosting to a butter-yellow) and whip until very pale and airy. Scoop into a butter-shaped mold created with cardboard and tape, then lined with parchment and chill in freezer until hard. Remove from mold and slice into 1/8-inch thick slices and use heart-shaped cut-out to create your butter pats. This can be done separately and frozen until ready to apply.
• For Syrup:.
• Mix all ingredients in a microwave safe bowl. If mixture is too thick or grainy, heat in microwave at 15 second intervals until desired syrup consistency is reached. Place in piping bag with 1/8-inch circular opening and drizzle over waffle cookies in a continuing 'S' pattern.

STRANGER THINGS RED VELVET VALENTINE CAKE

Steps:

• TO MAKE THE CAKE:.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease two 8-inch round pans.
• Beat butter and sugar until fluffy and creamed. Add eggs and whip. Mix cocoa and red food coloring separately and add to creamed mixture. Add vanilla, vinegar and buttermilk together in a glass. In a third bowl, sift and mix flour, baking soda and salt.
• Begin adding flour to the batter, alternating with the buttermilk mixture, whisking just until incorporated. Mix until just combined, being careful not to overmix.
• Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Out of the oven, cool ten minutes before removing from baking sheet. At this point, they should be covered and chilled until ready to assemble. When creating structural cakes, temperature is key and the colder everything is, the better!
• CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:.
• Cream butter and cream cheese together in stand mixer. Once fluffy, add sugar a cup at a time and beat until airy. Add vanilla and salt and spread over cake and in between layers that require no structural support.
• BUTTERCREAM FROSTING:.
• In a stand mixer, beat room temp butter until fluffy. Add icing sugar one cup at a time. Add whipping cream and salt (and add desired color for the heart section batch). Whip and frost cake.
• ROYAL ICING:.
• Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Use for Lambeth-style decorating as well as webbing on the heart and teeth on the Demogorgon blossoms.
• MODELING CHOCOLATE:.
• Warm corn syrup separately in the microwave. Melt down chocolate or candy melts. Once in a liquid state, remove from heat and mix in warm corn syrup, mixing just until a soft serve texture forms. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and allow to set for 6-8 hours. When ready to use, break off a selected piece and manipulate in your hands until it is soft and flexible again. If it's too soft, you can always fold in a little powdered sugar to help it set up a bit more. Once you have a flexible dough you can roll it out to make the Demogorgon blossoms or sculpt the hand. .
• Tip: I tripled this recipe for my 3-tiered cake. For the third batch, I poured the cake batter into a 6" pan and a 10" pan.