How To Make Cake Pops

This easy to follow cake pops recipe includes helpful tips on how to prepare your cake, likewise equally instructions on how to properly cook our famous Candy Melts candy, to make decorating super easy!

Easy to brand and fun to decorate, block pops brand great edible gifts or political party favors. They're a cinch to customize with your favorite flavors and colors and are perfect for those moments when you merely need a little taste of something sugariness!

Y'all can brand cake pops with your favorite homemade cake recipe; however, there's no shame in using a boxed cake mix here. Boxed cake mixtures produce a moist cake crumb that's perfect for cake pops. You tin also add in your favorite mix-ins to make it feel a trivial more "homemade" (we suggest mini chocolate chips or sprinkles for a confetti look).

Then roll up those sleeves…let'due south become poppin'!

How to Make Cake Balls

The easiest way to make consistent, compatible cake balls is to apply a measuring spoon. Depending on the size, yous tin can get anywhere from sixteen to 48 pops with i batch!

Here'south how you can brand small, medium or large block balls:

Small: one tablespoon-sized block brawl (each about 1 1/four in. diameter) makes almost 48
Medium: 2 tablespoons sized cake assurance (each about i i/2 in. in diameter) makes virtually 24
Large: 3 tablespoons sized cake balls, each about 2 in. diameter makes nearly 16

How to Dip Block Pops Using Candy Melts Candy

For dipping, we suggest melting wafers in a Candy Melting Pot with a little bit of EZ Thin Dipping Assist. The melting pot will assist keep your candy at the right temperature and the EZ Thin will make your candy the perfect consistency for dipping.

Processed Melts go far easy and fun to decorate and customize your cake pops. They're easy to melt and can be found in a multifariousness of colors and flavors.

For more information on how to cook, use and decorate cake pops with Candy Melts, check out our step-by-step How to Use Candy Melts for Baking and Decorating guide.

You lot tin also use chocolate or white chocolate in your melting pot. Both make a keen blanket!

How to Store Cake Pops

Dipped cake pops decorated with Candy Melts candy can exist stored at room temperature for a week. If you used melted chocolate or white chocolate to dip or decorate your block pops, store them in the fridge so the chocolate doesn't melt.

Tin Yous Freeze Cake Pops?

Simply place your cake pops in a big reusable freezer bag. Block pops will last in the freezer for up to 6 weeks.

Easy Cake Pop Ideas & Recipes

Busy Bee Donut Pops

If you're busy equally a bee and don't have time to make cake pops for your party – use store-bought donut holes instead! These ambrosial Busy Bee Donut Pops are bang-up for infant showers or birthdays and all you need to practise is dip and decorate.

Schoolhouse Spirit Cake Pops

Testify off your pride with these Team Spirit Cake Pops. Made using two colors of block and candy, these treats are great for whatever sport or schoolhouse issue!

Sprinkled Delicious Cake Pops

Grow your own edible garden with these beautiful Succulent Block Pops.

Blue Marbled Cake Pops

A little swirl of blue makes these Marbled Cake Pops, well, pop!

Cake Pops Tips and Troubleshooting

How Far in Advance Tin Y'all Make Block Pops?

Your mixture can be prepared a couple days in advance and kept in the fridge until ready to use. You lot can even class the cake assurance a day ahead and let them arctic in the fridge for easier dipping.

If yous want to prep your cake balls and freeze them, store them in a large freezer bag and continue in the freezer for upward to 6 weeks. Let your cake balls come to room temperature before dipping.

Why Are My Cake Pops Bang-up?

If your candy crush is keen, it's mostly due to an extreme alter in temperature (cold cake balls being dipped into hot candy). This can also happen with hot candy or chocolate existence put into a cold refrigerator or freezer.

To avert slap-up, let your cake balls warm up to room temperature a chip before dipping in warm candy or chocolate. In one case dipped, let your cake pops sit at room temperature for 5 to 7 minutes earlier placing in the fridge or freezer so the processed has fourth dimension to cool.

Getting a Polish Finish

To get that overnice, smoothen stop, endeavour rolling your cake ball again to smooth out the sides earlier inserting the stick. We also suggest using EZ Sparse to thin out your candy, making information technology the perfect consistency for dipping and dunking.

Why Practice My Cake Pops Autumn Off the Stick?

If your block assurance are falling off your treat stick, they could be too heavy due to size or adding too much frosting.

To aid ensure your block balls stay, be sure to dip the stick in melted candy before inserting it into the block ball. This hardened candy blanket acts every bit a glue to concord the stick in place.

If you remember yous've added as well much frosting, add a niggling more than cake to aid even out the texture.

The Frosting to Cake Ratio

When information technology comes to adding frosting to your cake, you want just enough to moisten it. This is especially important to keep in mind if you're using a boxed cake mix, which is already pretty moist. Commencement with a pocket-sized amount and add together more than every bit needed.

Have Fun Experimenting with Flavor!

Non a fan of buttercream frosting? Try using cream cheese frosting instead! Cream cheese frosting is great for ruddy velvet cake pops, or can exist used with your favorite dark chocolate cake mix.

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Easy Bootleg Cake Pops

This homemade cake pop recipe is ultra-moist and like shooting fish in a barrel to make. These block pops are a blast to decorate and even ameliorate to eat!

This simple recipe is perfect for making cake pops in all shapes and sizes. Great to utilise as edible favors for birthdays and other celebrations, these treats can be customized using Processed Melts candy and colorful sprinkles.

Prep Time 25 mins

Full Time 3 hrs 40 mins

Craft styrofoam cake or paper-thin box for belongings and conveying

i box Cake Mix of Your Selection
one box Instant Pudding Mix 3.4 oz (If yous're using a chocolate cake mix, use chocolate instant pudding mix.)
4 Eggs
1 cup Water
⅓ cup Vegetable Oil
½ cup Buttercream Frosting (chocolate frosting for chocolate pops)
1 bag Candy Melts Processed 12 oz. (whatsoever color you'd like)
Your Choice of Toppings (sprinkles, basics or other toppings)

Make the Cake

Preheat oven to 350℉. Spray sheet block pan or baking canvas with nonstick spray.
In a large bowl, combine the block mix, pudding mix, eggs, h2o and oil. Crush at medium speed with an electrical mixer for two minutes. Pour into the prepared pan.
Bake 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out make clean. Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes, and so remove from pan and absurd completely. Divide block in half and freeze one one-half for future use.
Using your easily, crumble up the block until no large pieces remain.
Add together frosting, mixing with fingers until well combined.

Form Cake Balls

Form into cake balls and chill until set, about two hours.

Modest block pops: 1 tablespoon-sized cake balls (each about one i/4 inch diameter) makes about 48 cake pops.

Medium cake pops: 2 tablespoons-sized cake balls (each well-nigh one 1/ii inch diameter) makes nigh 24 cake pops.

Large cake pops: 3 tablespoons-sized cake balls (each about one 3/4 inch diameter) makes about xvi block pops.

Create & Coat Cake Pops

While cake balls are setting, melt Candy Melts candy according to package instructions.
Dip the tip of each lollipop stick into melted candy, then into set up cake balls. Repeat with all cake balls, and then allow chill again until set, about 10 minutes. Reserve remaining melted candy.
Dip the cake assurance, ane at a time, into remaining melted processed. Tap lightly to remove excess. If needed, y'all can reheat the processed with some EZ Thin Dipping Aid to thin it out for easier dipping.
Immediately cover with sprinkles or topping of choice, and then transfer to craft foam. Repeat with remaining cake pops. Arctic until gear up, nearly 10 to 15 minutes.

Makes about 24 medium sized block pops
For equal-sized cake pops: use a cookie scoop to measure out each cake ball size.
Dipping cake pops: Apply a tall and deep basin or cup, like the Ceramic Candy Melting Bowls, to dip your cake pops in Candy Melts. This way the pops tin can be completely submerged.
Chocolate cake pops: If y'all're using a chocolate cake mix, use chocolate instant pudding mix. For all other block flavors, yous tin use a vanilla pudding mix. We also recommend using chocolate buttercream fora rich chocolate flavor.

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