Let’s talk cake pops, and how to make cake pops with the Babycakes Cake Pop maker!
Tips For Using The Babycakes Cake Pop Maker
When I make cakepops, more often than not I make them using the Babycakes Cake Pop Maker. I received this as a gift, and honestly my first thought was “gimmick”.
Well it turns out, it’s a great little machine and extremely useful. I LOVE the taste of cake pops made this way, compared to the cake and frosting method, and you can add a filling if you like.
Kohls often has it on sale and if you can catch it with a sale and a coupon, you can usually get a great price.
Getting Round Cake Pops
The question I get the most about the Babycakes Cake Pop Maker is how I get my cake pops round, with many people telling me that theirs come out flat or and odd shape. My immediate question is if they used a regular cake mix or a recipe from Babycakes.
They almost always reply that they used a regular cake mix.
Cake Pop Maker Recipes
Given that a regular mix still requires adding ingredients, measuring and mixing, it only takes a few more quick steps to make them from scratch using one of the Babycakes recipes. Making a recipe from scratch with the cake pop maker is still quicker than the original method of baking a cake, and then chopping it up and mixing it with frosting and shaping the balls by hand.
EDITED TO ADD: As of 2017, it looks like the recipes are no longer available on the website unfortunately. Never fear, I have a chocolate cake pop recipe at the end of this post, and you can find the VANILLA CAKE POP MAKER RECIPE here.
Babycakes has their instruction manual, with recipes (previously available on their website). I absolutely LOVE the vanilla cake pop recipe that is in the manual, and it’s my go to recipe for cake pops, it reminds me of pound cake. I’ve found each one that I’ve tried to be delicious and they work great with the machine. I am very excited that they have a brand new cookbook of cake pop recipes with 175 cake pop recipes. I can not wait to try them.
Cake Pop Mix Vs From Scratch Recipe
My take is that if you are going to use the machine, use one of their recipes. 
They’ve been developed for and tested in the Babycakes machine. The included instruction manual includes some great recipes.
I’m not saying cake mixes won’t work, I just think that it makes sense that you will get the best results following a recipe that was made specifically for this purpose. The Babycakes recipes seem to produce a much thicker batter, which certainly makes it easier to fill the wells of the machine.
The batter is so thick that put my batter into a Ziploc freezer bag and “pipe” it into the wells. I tried this with a cake mix and it was not fun, the cake mix was just too runny. I also saw a suggestion to use a Pancake Pen for the batter. This sounds like an excellent idea that I might have to try.
As of 2019, it appears that Babycakes no longer sells cake pop mixes. I’ve seen this cake pop mix on Amazon, but can’t speak to the results it produces.
Using A Cake Mix To Make Cake Pops
If you want to use a store bought mix, I recommend cutting back on the amount of liquid in the recipe. This is something that is likely going to be different with each brand and flavor, meaning there is no blanket “cut back x amount”. I would also recommend adding a bit more baking powder to the mix, even if just half a teaspoon.
Another fun thing about making your cake pops with the Babycakes machine is that you can easily add/inject a filling into the cake pops! We’ve only used frosting (because we love frosting) but I’m sure you could put lots of other yummy fillings in.
Also, check out this fantastic video from Ahh’s Cakes where she uses the Babycakes Cake Pop Maker and goes through every step – it’s about ten minutes long and very helpful. She appears to be using one of the Pancake Pens to dispense her batter.
The Babycakes Cakepop Maker might take a bit of practice (though I have to say my very first batch turned out quite nicely), but I really think it’s worth figuring it out, especially if you need to make large batches of cake pops. It also makes some delicious donut holes. There are other cake pop makers and pans, such as cake pop pans. I haven’t tried it, so can’t speak for how it works.
Make sure to check out this post for tips, advice, idea and resources for dipping and decorating your cake pops and thoughts on some common cake pop challenges such as getting the chocolate smooth, preventing the chocolate from cracking and getting the cake pops to stay on their sticks.
CHOCOLATE CAKE POP MAKER RECIPE
Babycakes Chocolate Cake Pops
Ingredients
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cocoa
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ cup freshly brewed hot coffee
- Glaze or coating of choice
Instructions
- Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl.
- Add buttermilk, vegetable oil, egg and vanilla. Using a mixer, blend until smooth.
- Add coffee and continue mixing until coffee is evenly incorporated into mixture.
- Fill each cooking reservoir with about 1 tablespoon of batter.
- Bake 4 to 5 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into a cake pop comes out clean.
- Allow to cool and glaze or coat, as desired.
- Makes about 3½ dozen cake pops
Notes
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.
Want a vanilla cake pop recipe for the
Babycakes cake pop maker? I’ve got one here!
Deanna Nosek says
Can you freeze baby cakes & decorant them at a later time ….if so how long can you freeze them for ?
Christi says
I haven’t really tried with these. My concern would be the moisture from thawing them would possibly not play well with the chocolate (chocolate + water = not so friendly together). Honestly if you use the Babycakes machine to make them it’s fast, SO much faster than the “traditional” way of making them, that I’m not sure I’d go with freezing them. But I haven’t tried any of that. 🙂
Chris Fruits says
I need to make many baby cake balls for a baby shower. Has anyone successfully frozen the decorated balls ahead of time? Advice please!
It would be helpful for the baby cake balls to be done days in advance
Mary says
LOVE this blog and your tips are great! Question, though: The chocolate mix is so much thinner than the vanilla–I added an extra T of flour and it was still like liquid. Anyone else have this problem? i added a minute to the baking, and they came out fine, but curious.
Dan says
The manual with 8 recipes is still available on the Babycakes site here:
http://www.selectbrands.com/media/wysiwyg/selectbrands/manuals/CP-12_IM.pdf
Belinda says
I lost my cake pop recipe book! Can anyone help me out and link me to or tell me the babycakes vanilla recipe. I love the recipe!
YK says
I bought the Babycakes cake pop machine after reading this post. I also didn’t like the idea of mashing the cake and putting lots of frosting, and also the taste of traditional cake pops no matter how cute they looked. I’m so glad i found this post…I love the bake pops, they are super cute AND taste so good!!! Thank you! 🙂 (Not to mention super easy to bake!)
Christi says
Glad it’s working well for you! I really do prefer it!
Rishona says
I used my machine today for the first time and am actually quite unsatisfied with the results. They are just little cakes.. they don’t have that dense moist texture that cake pops are supposed to have. Is there a specific recipe that I can use to achieve the normal cake pop consistency like starbucks? If I wanted to make a normal cake.. I would just use a square pan or make cupcakes…. I don’t want to inject with frosting either.. I just want a delicious dense ball that I can decorate for bday parties etc. HELP 🙂
Christi says
Rishona, no, no baked machine is going to give you that consistency. For what you are wanting, you are going to have to bake a cake, tear it up, and mix it with frosting, then roll the pops by hand. Basically make a traditional cake pop, versus the short cut version that a cake pop maker makes. And yes, they are little cakes, that’s what you get when you bake a cake recipe 😉
Josephine says
I freeze the cake pop overnight, then take out 10 at a time, dip the stick in the chocolate melt then the cake pop in the chocolate, then back in the fridge until they harden.
Erin says
Thank you for the great advice on using the Babycakes Cake Pop Maker. I used it two years ago and the cake pops were not round at all. I tried your advice and made the vanilla cake mix from the Babycakes manual. I had better luck this time. By the 3rd batch they were round. The first two dozen cake pops look a little like cone heads, still an improvement though! I am doing this for an assignment on “personal learning networks.” I have to accomplish something I always wanted to learn using the internet as my teacher; then document the whole experience through my blog. I linked back to this post to give you credit as my teacher! Thank you again.
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