Tooth Cake Pops + Tutorial

Dentist approved? I think yes... I mean.. dental student approved that is :) I finally got around to making these... this has been on my mind for the past few years.. but I've been too lazy to make cake pops... why? I don't eat them. I think they're way too sweet... they're just to look at.. I'm not sure if I will be giving these to my friends just because... I care. haha jk.. but yea I don't have a terrible sweet tooth, I like to reduce the sugars in everything I make.. but... dipping things in basically all sugar? .. Yikes. I might take a nibble of one later tonight, but iono... I think I just made it just to make it... I know a lot of people enjoy cake pops..so if you're one of them, these would be perfect for you. A very sweet tooth indeed.

I was going to draw on them with edible markers or chocolate but my markers dried out and I was too lazy to break out more chocolate... ( you should see my disaster zone of a kitchen right now...)

Things you can draw on them: faces... cavities... perforations... fractures... amalgam fillings... stains...  I might really sit down one day and really give this cake pop my best effort with all the fun dental things i see... maybe stick some calculus on it.... have gutta percha stick out one side.... have a root amputated.. who knows...this might be my graduation project. 

Cake : Chocolate Stout Cake (used the scraps from the cake when I leveled it)
Frosting: Chocolate Stout Buttercream
Dipping: Candiquik Vanilla Coating

Tools:

• sticks
• a cup for dipping 
• a larger bowl filled with hot water to keep the coating warm
• a chopstick, or a small round blunted utensil 

Dental Anatomy 101 : We're not striving for 9's on this... but hey, let's try to make it kind of anatomical :) This tooth is similar to those mandibular (lower) 2nd molars aka # 18, 31

First start off with a well mixed dough of cake and frosting that's been chilled for 15 minutes in the freezer
Warm up in the palm of your hand to form this oval shape 

using a chopstick, create the roots by splitting it in half for about 1 cm 

elongate the tooth by squeezing the sides so that the roots and crown of the tooth are longer 

the occlusal ( biting surface ) anatomy is quite cross like .. that's why I chose to do this tooth
use a chopstick and start pressing it out so that there is a depression in the center and slightly inclining towards the outside of the dough

toothy! with the mesial and distal roots, noticeable cusps (there are 4 on my cake pops)

ready to be dipped!

The coating kind of takes away a bit of the anatomy, but you can still see it.
You can make it more anatomical before you dip, I was just getting impatient ... 

 I definitely took a photoshoot of these.... I'll upload more later...