Cake Pops have to be one of the cutest foods I can think of. The master bakers can turn cake and frosting in to just about everything you can imagine. We tried our hands at Cake Pops today. It wasn’t until I sat down to post this that I actually watched a video tutorial, which helped tremendously! One of these days I will turn to YouTube before I actually start something new. I will highlight the important parts that I skipped so you do not make the same mistakes I did.
What You’ll Need
One baked cake – no need to be a hero and make one from scratch as a boxed cake works perfectly well
Frosting – one can OR you can make your own (which is what I prefer to do)
Candy Melts
Parchment Paper/Foil
Lollipop Sticks (if making Cake Pops)
Steps To Make Cake Pops/Cake Balls
1. Cut the baked cake in to fourths. Crumble it by rubbing two pieces together
2. Add frosting and mix
3. Form the mixture in to ping-pong sized balls and set on parchment paper/foil
4. Place in the freezer for 15 minutes. (This is an important step that I should not have omitted)
5. Melt the candy melts. I used a makeshift double broiler
6. Remove cake balls from freezer
7. Insert a lollipop stick about half an inch in to the candy melts. Then stick that portion of the lollipop stick about halfway in to the cake ball (This is a HUGELY important step!!! I did not do it and my cake POPS turned in to cake BALLS because I omitted this step)
8. Dip the cake pop in to the melted candy. Allow any excess to drip off
9. Sprinkle – if desired
10. Stick in styrofoam to keep upright
Here are the cake pops we made. They did not work since we didn’t put the candy melt on the lollipop stick first. They were cute for a minute though! The girls had so much fun decorating with sprinkles. We are going to perfect cake pops shortly. It just bumped up on my “must learn now” list! I would love to hear your experience with Cake Pops/Balls!
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Erin – definitely worth the time spent. It wasn’t really too bad since we are snowed in and have nothing else to do. 🙂 But really, make a cake one day, do the rest the next. You can put everything in the fridge if you want.
Linda – yes! Almond bark works as do chocolate chips.
Jennifer – that sounds de-lish! I want it and I want it now. 🙂
Theresa – that is one of my favorite posts. I love that it started out birthday and ended coupons. 🙂
Cake balls are so fun! I’m not ambitious enough to try making them into pops!
We used melted chocolate chips to coat them. They were super easy to make allergy friendly for our family.
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If you like lemon…use lemon cake, with vanilla frosting (i thought the lemon frosting was too sweet) you can even throw in some coconut into the mixture. dip in white chocolate and then roll in cocout.. they are sooo good.
I know someone that makes Cake Balls and they use Almond Bark to coat them. They are delicious!!!
could you use the almond bark coating?
Was it worth the time spent? they look yummy might do them for Haileys birthday.. I might wrap them in cellophane too with little bows
These are too cute! I will defiantly use your recipe for Valentines Day! Thanks!