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.
Anna says
WHY in this WORLD am I so far behind on the cake pop craze??? How stinking adorable?!?! My daughter has a valentines day birthday, so I showed her these and told her we were SO making these for her birthday, to which she replied, “No thanks!” Hmmm. Guess she’s a little behind, too! =) Thanks for making it look so easy! I am super pumped!
Suzanne says
Christi, I enjoyed reading and learning about how cake pops are made. My daughter, Katie, inspired me to go on line to see how she makes them, and I came up on your site. I am putting together a baby shower for my daughter, and we are going to make them for the party. Katie made a batch of three different cakes mix flavors for Christmas, had them decorated so nicely, and we all enjoyed them. Thank you for inspiring others to do this as well. It is so pretty, so tasty, and even my son-in-law gobbled them down!
Trish says
You know, while I love LOOKING at Bakerella’s cake pops, it seems like they’re SO much work. I’d much rather go minimal and then have more time to eat them 🙂
Lara N. says
Thanks for the pics and tips on the cake pops! I want to make them for my twins’ 5th b-day party, but figured it wasn’t as easy as some people made it look. Reading about them on your blog and trying to learn how, ahead of time is going to save me some heartache if I’d tried to wait until the last moment to ‘throw them together’!
MANDE says
I JUST LOVE YOUR SITE!THE CUTEST IDEAS…AND DAUGHTERS.I HAVE 2 YEAR-OLD AND A 7 YEAR-OLD DAUGHTERS.
Gina says
What a treat to find your blog!!
Not only you give me inspiration to go for the adorable cake pops..you make it look simple..adorable and to top it off you have adorable girls and one of them is named Bella like mine!
I love your Blog!!
Brianna says
Im having a movie night with a lovely family and I saw your cake ball recipe I just had to make it thanks so much from my kitchen to yours.
Abby says
This really helped . I was sure there was another way with out the cake pop maker . 🙂 I like this way better
Isabel says
hi this really helped so much! thanks! quick question, how many cake pops were you able to make with one cake?
yo mom says
I’ll make these for myself and devour them, then thank you. Oh, crap, I forgot to thank you 😛