As a huge Pokemon fan and food lover, I just had to contribute to #pokeNOM, a month of bloggers making Pokemon-themed recipes! I wanted to try making something I’ve never seen before, and since I have been absolutely obsessed with Pokemon GO, I realized I could make Candy!



Candy is unique to each Pokemon line and is the only way to evolve your Pokemon in GO. Candy is named after the base form of a given evolutionary line, so Charmander, Charmeleon and Charizard all give you Charmander Candy when you catch, transfer, and evolve them.

This recipe uses techniques that I learned from My Cupcake Addiction‘s Candy Pokeball recipe.



Ingredients:

Wilton Candy Melts in desired colours

Mini M&Ms or other small candy

Tools:

Cake pop mold (silicone is best, but I didn’t have an issue using metal)

Bowls

Spoons

Ziploc baggies

Little print-outs of Pokemon

I decided I wanted to make Candy for Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, and Pikachu. I used my in-game Pokemon as references, and knew I needed green, orange, blue, yellow and brown candy melts. I also needed a light green for the stripe on the Bulbasaur Candy, so I mixed the yellow and green candy melts to get the desired colour.



I started by using the President’s Choice Cake Pop Maker (basically a waffle iron, but for making cake pops or donought holes), which I borrowed from @papillonthepirate. I only used the half spheres on the bottom.

I started by melting down my candy melts in the main colours of the Candy (in this case green, orange, blue and yellow) by placing them in bowls and microwaving them in 30-second increments, stirring in between. Once they were a consistent texture, I spooned about half a teaspoon into each half sphere and scraped the chocolate up the sides, coating the entire mold and adding more chocolate as desired. Remember: you need two half-sphere to make one Candy! Tap your mold against the countertop to eliminate as many air pockets as possible to reduce imperfections in your sphere.



I stuck them in the fridge for a few minutes, and once the coat was hard to the touch (about 15 minutes) I then took them out and added a second coat (I often had to remelt the chocolate in the microwave between coats). This makes the half spheres firmer and less likely to crack or break. I then stuck them in the freezer for 30 minutes.

At the end of the 30 minutes, I took the mold out of the freezer. The chocolates had been shocked away from the sides of the mold, so they slid out pretty easily. If you’re using a silicone mold, you want to pull the mold away from the chocolate and gently invert the mold to push the chocolate out.

I made my Candy hollow to make them into candy bombs! I bought some Mini M&Ms to fill them up, and decided to take a page out of My Cupcake Addiction’s book and printed out little photos of the Pokemon corresponding with their Candy. The images I used are from Pokemon Shuffle since I love the artwork, and the design is simple enough that it can be scaled down and you won’t lose much image quality.

I took the half spheres and found the ones that were deepest, and I filled those with the candy and print-outs. Be sure to tell people if there is paper inside before they take a bite! Melt down the secondary colour for the Candy, i.e. the colour of the stripe (in Pikachu’s case, it’s brown), and put it in a plastic Ziplock baggie. Cut the tip off one of the corners and use the Ziplock as a small piping bag. Run the chocolate along the edge of the bottom half sphere, and then place the other half on top, holding it closed in your hands for a few seconds until the chocolate hardens.

Once the candy was dry and stable, I could pipe on the three signature stripes. I started with the middle stripe, filling up any remaining gaps between the two half spheres before making a nice, wide stripe. If you have a food-safe pastry brush, you can also use that to make your stripes. Once the first stripe is done, I rested the Candy against a toothpick (you can play with the centre of gravity by shaking the M&Ms up a bit). Once the main stripe is dry, I then added the top stripe. I waited for each stripe to set completely before adding the next one.



Once all three stripes dried, voila, they’re done! You can take a bite (if there’s no paper inside), smash them with a hammer, or send them to your local professor. They’ll make even a starter Pokemon power up instantly!



These things are surprisingly sturdy, and oh-so-sweet. Please tag me if you decide to try making your own! Bon apetit!

