Let’s talk cake pops! Delicious little bites of cake, frosting and chocolate, all put together in handy little pops.
These are the traditional or original cake pops. The kind made by combining a baked cake with frosting, then dipping them into chocolate.
I have to be honest, I think I prefer Oreo truffle pops or cake pops made with my Babycakes Cake Pop Maker a bit more. That said, my daughters loved the traditional cake pops I’m sharing here today.
Cake Pop Ingredients
They are made from easy ingredients.
- Baked, unfrosted cake – flavor of your choice
- Can of frosting – flavor of your choice that pairs with cake
- Chocolate candy coating (or white chocolate, or other flavors)
- Sticks
- Sprinkles if desired
Make up your cake mix and bake.
Now we have cake. And now we are going to destroy the cake…
Not quite destroyed enough yet…
And now into a bowl. I know some people use a food processor, but this was easy enough, and less clean up than the food processor would have been.
Now to add the frosting. I am not a fan of canned frosting, so it was a bit painful for me to add it, but hey, it certainly qualifies as easy.
I used about half the can.
After combining the cake and frosting it formed a ball of dough so to speak. I think some people chill the dough, but since my little one was napping I had to take advantage of the time and went straight in to creating the cake pop balls.
The next step was to put the sticks in. I prefer to dip the stick into a bit of melted chocolate, than into the cake pop. This seems to help the pop stay on the stick better, which helps a lot when you are dipping them in the chocolate.
I made pink, white and chocolate covered cake pops. I started with the pink. I’m trying to get all of the pink I can in for Valentine’s Day. After putting the sticks into the cake pops, I stuck them in the fridge for a few hours. During that time I taught Grace how to use the dishwasher. A mom can dream, right?
After that I dipped each one into the chocolate and than coated with a variety of different sprinkles. And ended up with cute little things like this…
A few more shots of cake pop goodness. I didn’t have the time to try any of Bakerella’s cute cake pop decorating ideas, it was more a sprinkle and go type of thing.
Cake Pops
Ingredients
- 1 baked, cooled, unfrosted cake 13x9 pan size is ideal
- 1/2 cups frosting store bought frosting, but do not use the "whipped' variety
- 24 oz candy melts, candy coating or almond bark
- 24 lollipop sticks
- sprinkles
Instructions
- Crumble cake into a large bowl and combine cake crumbs with frosting. While you can use a spoon, it often is easiest to roll up your sleeves and use your hands to work the mixture together.
- Form mixture into cake balls, approximately 1” in diameter. Place cake balls onto a baking sheet and place in refrigerator for two hours, or freezer for 20 minutes.
- Working one cake pop at a time, dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted candy melts, and then into the cake ball. Make sure the stick is secure in the cake ball. Place cake pop back on baking sheet to set up and repeat process with remaining ingredients.
- Working one cake pop at a time, dip cake pops into melted candy melts. If needed use a spoon to help spoon the cake melts over the cake pop. Tap stick very gently** on side of bowl to help remove excess candy melt mixture. Immediately add a light coating of sprinkles.
- Place cake pop stick into craft block or cake pop stand and allow to sit for at least 20 minutes to set up. Repeat process with remaining cake pops.
Nutrition
Disclaimer
Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
*Update – since I wrote this post, I’ve made quite a few other cake pops as well. Click here to see all my cake pop posts!
Cake Pops With The Babycakes Cake Pop Maker
My daughter insisted on blue and green decorations for hers. Unfortunately she told me this after my trip to the baking supply store. Thankfully I had some blue and green sugars, though not as brightly colored as I would have liked.
I didn’t plan to put these on a styrofoam stand, so I let them sit, cake pop down, to try. To keep with the last minute theme, my daughter requested on her way to school that I put them on a stand. This isn’t the most inspired, but I had to whip something up at home while Grace was napping. Eh, not that pretty, but it held up the cake pops, so it was functional.
So while they weren’t the cutest, the girls at my daughter’s dance studio seemed to enjoy them, so mission accomplished.
Naomi says
This does seem easy!! Its summer break and im going to attempt them!!! Thanks for the tips!!!
Herlinda says
Christi, thanks for the great and easy recipe. I have a leftover chocolate sheet cake that cracked and I hated tossing it out so I thought I’d try my hand at making some cake pops. I also have a lot of colored melting chocolate and various sprinkles. I decorate cakes so I already had some of the stuff on hand. I’m going to make them tomorrow for my grandkids and see what they think. I’ll let you know how it all turns out. And your pictures were delightful. Thank you again.
Dana says
You’re awesome! Thanks, I’m making these for a school project right now.
jenna says
This is really great! This is actually the easiest recipe I have found online. We noticed a lot of bakery cafe’s coming up with these, and we (Well, I, ha) wanted to make these for my stepson’s 10th birthday. They’re the perfect grab-and-go cake treat for a bunch of rowdy boys who don’t want to be bothered with having to sit down and eat a plate of cake. I also think these would be a great snack to make to send back home to my family, as they look like they’d ship well, packed with a bunch of shipping peanuts 🙂 You did a fantastic job! I hope it’s as easy for me as it was for you.
Liz says
How many does one box of cake mix make?
lexi says
amazing i love then i am going to make mine orange for my basketball tournament because we need to bring in treats to sell at the snack bar (thats how we get the money to go to other tournaments) thx so much
Judy says
Love this idea….Thanks so much for the recipe! Did you have pink candy melts or did you color the vanilla almond bark?? I just LOVE the pink.. so I was wondering about that.
Calysta says
I love cake pops!! My friends make cake pops and i always wonder how they make them, then I found out how to make them from you!! Thanx
Michelle Smith says
Need to try these out sometime! I’m sure you get asked this a lot… what kind of camera and lens do you use for these amazing shots… also what kind of lighting? thanks…
Chloe says
I hope it’s alright if i put your photos on my blog, it’s all about food and i find all your recipes amazing! i credit you in every post, and i send them to your website. if you have any problems with me doing so, please reply. thank you so much, i love your blog!
Christi says
Chloe, absolutely! Thank you for the kind words, and I’m more than happy to let you use them. I hope other people can benefit from my recipes and just seeing that some of these things are really simple to put together. I think so many recipes can sound pretty intimidating, and one of my goals with my blog is to show that you can quite easily (and inexpensively) create some really fun baked goods and treats.
fatiha shah says
amazing cake pops