Hello and welcome to Tiny Kitchen Blog! My name is Radina and I love baking. As you might have guessed from the blog’s name, creating tiny things in the kitchen is my favourite part. Besides, I like to take photos, draw, paint, write and make little charms out of polymer clay in my free time. I thought that it would be fun to combine art and baking. Some friends of mine asked me to share my creations with them and as I noticed that there was positive reputation, I decided to start this blog.

Well, I don’t want you to get bored by my story if you ar looking for a good recipe right now, so we’d better get started. If you want to know more, though, please feel free to press the „About Me“ button.

Half a year ago, I found out how delicious cake pops are. I fell in love with them at once. If you have ever visited bakerella.com, you wil know what I’m talking about when I say, that she is an artist. Check her cake pops out, they are just amazing. On her website, I also found recipes for other sweets on lollipop sticks, e.g. cheescake or pie. From that time on,

I felt the urge to create something on my own, put another boring classic cake onto a stick.I found one. So what is this post about? It is about sweethearts. Cute, simple, delicious. You will like it. And it ist easy to put together! All you need is a little time and a strong will to not eat all the batter and chocolate before the pops are done. ;)

The basic for these sweethearts are simple homemade waffles. You’re interested? Then turn your waffle iron on.

Waffles:
(makes about 7-8 waffles)

125 g (4 oz + 1 tbsp.) unsalted butter, room temperature
125 g (½ cup + 1 tbsp.) sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
250 g (2 cups + 1 tbsp.) all purpose flour
3 tsp. Baking powder
1 pinch salt
250 ml (1 cup + 1 tbsp.) milk

Topping:

150g (5 oz) chocolate, your favourite flavour
100 g (3 ½ oz) nuts, m&m`s, dried cranberries etc.

20 lollipop sticks

Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside until needed.

At first, cream the sugar and the butter, until you get a fluffy, white cream. Add one egg at a time and stir in between. Now add the vanilla extract.

Combine with flour and milk, while adding them taking turns. If you put in all the flour at a time, the dough will be quite sticky.
Preheat a waffle iron. After not more than 2 minutes it will be hot enough.
For a waffle like iron like mine, I use a bit less than a full scoop of dough. Close the iron and let bake. Take if out when it turns light golden brown at the edges.

Let the waffles cool completely.

Cut the waffles into smaller pieces like that – you will receive many small hearts.

Melt the chocolate using a bain-marie or your microwave. Place 1 ½ teaspoons of chocolate onto each heart and spread out your topping. Place a lollipop stick into the chocolate. Put one more heart onto the topping so you get a kind of sandwich. Let the chocolate cool until you can eat the pops.

Enjoy!