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.
Sia jai SJ says
Wow! this is the best 😀 love it <3
Thalia says
Thank you so much for this tutorial! It was the easiest and most friend to read- I have to make these with my friends! You had awesome photography, too, it really helps to have pictures of each step. <3
Katherine says
o and I also went out to bed bath and beyond and bought the baby cakes but I figured ill start with this first….trying baby cakes in a bit.
Katherine says
Ok! I am making them right this second and reading the instructions on this page! i got everything except the almond bark! I hope its ok and they come out ok. I dont have much time! also should i freeze the cake balls before dipping them into the melted candy melts? I just took my two cakes out and im so happy because they actually came out pretty good!!! iim moving on to the oreo cake batter while the cakes cool! if you see this post soon, please let me know if i should freeze or not? thank you so much for replying and helping me with this!
Katherine says
Im going to try to make these and the oreo recipe tomorrow. Its my step brothers bday on sat and I promised my mom I would bake cup cakes which im getting better and making my own frosting (I still have to master royal icing but almost there with my home made butter cream frosting) anyway! I have been wanting to make these for A LONG time for my 5 year old daughter and I had saved and read bakearellas recipe and have been way too scared to try it out but reading your recipes here give me hope! I bought all of the ingridients and even a pop cake stand and im hoping they came out as well and pretty as yours did. I have to admit, im mostly scared of the melting the chocolate and decorating part. I also really wish I could find some colored chocolate to melt, like blue and pinks and colors like that. also not to sound ignorant but what do you use the almond stuff in the picture for? I read the recipe several times and couldnt find reference to it but im very tired so may have missed it. any tips would me GREATLY appreciated! I need all of the help I can get! I can make great candy apples as well but im very scared of the cake pops! lol your picturs and recipes are great!
Christi says
Hi Katherine, Do you have a Michaels or Hobby Lobby near you? Both of those stores have colored melting chocolate. As far as the almond bark goes, there are instructions on the package – I don’t give directions because every brand is a bit different – I use a variety of brands, usually whatever is at the store I find myself in when I need some. Don’t be scared of the cake pops – give them a go, the chocolate really isn’t that bad – just remember it’s better to heat too low/little and add to versus overheat. 🙂 And I haven’t mastered royal icing either, I love a good simple buttercream – not fancy but so delish!
noah says
love it
noah says
love it good for picnic
Momof3 says
Awesome cake pops! I am currently making them with my prschoolers- they are in the fridge chilling as I type… We are using “confetti” cake mix and strawberry flavored icing. Hoping that they come out tasting something similar to strawberries dipped in chocolate 🙂
Aja says
Great Pictures! Soo helpful! Thank you!
Stephanie says
I’m a working mom of 3 girls so I am always looking for something cute to do with them!
Thank you so much for your pictures, and I think the stand is pretty awesome:) Thank you for sharing.