Cake Pops

Chocolate, Chocolate Coconut, Chocolate Sprinkled, Strawberry, Strawberry Coconut, Strawberry Sprinkled, Strawberry - Vanilla Doubled Dipped, Vanilla, Vanilla Sprinkled and Vanilla Coconut Cake Pops.

Easy to Follow Recipe for Cake Pops


YOU WILL NEED:

1 baked cake, plain
1 can of frosting OR 1 batch serving of our favorite homemade buttercream frosting, which can be found here.
2 bags of Wilton Candy Melts OR chocolate chips
Cake pop sticks (available at Michael's)
Styrofoam board
Cookie sheet, tray or other flat surface
Wax Paper



Makes 30-40 pops (varies by individual size of pops)


1. Using your hands, gently crumble baked cake into a large mixing bowl. Continue crumbling until crumbs are fine. Do not squeeze.


2. Empty 3/4 of the can of frosting into mixing bowl. Using a mixer, mix the frosting and the cake until a soft mixture forms. If it is too crumbly and the cake is too thick, you can add more frosting. But be careful, if the mixture gets too soft it won't stay in the sphere shape later.

3. Take a sheet of wax paper and place it on top of a flat tray or cookie sheet.

4. Using your hands, begin rolling small 1- to 2-inch spheres out of the cake mixture. Try to get the surface as smooth as you can, but it doesn't have to be perfect because we are going to be covering it with the chocolate anyway.

5. Place each finished ball onto the wax paper. Repeat until you have completely finished the cake mixture.

6. Place the tray of balls into the fridge for about 20-30 minutes.

7. In the meantime, fill a ceramic, microwave-safe bowl  with the Candy Melts or Chocolate. It is very important that you use this type of bowl, otherwise the candy melts/chocolate can burn very easily. Also the Candy melts are much easier to work with than chocolate chips because they melt to a thinner consistency and dry more quickly.

8. Microwave melts/chocolate until melted. The consistency should be thinner than "softened butter" but thicker than "melted butter."

9. After time is up, take the cake balls out of the fridge. Put cake pop sticks in each of them.

10. Holding the cake pop by the stick, one by one, dip into the bowl. You may have to move it around in the bowl to get it completely covered, but be careful when doing this because the cake ball could fall off of the stick. For best results, use a spoon to drizzle and cover any bare spots.

11. After cake pop is completely covered, poke the end of the cake pop stick into the styrofoam board and let the cake pop stand to dry. Repeat for the rest until all cake pops are complete. You can add garnishes, like sprinkles or shredded coconut, at this time.

12. Place in the fridge to cool for about 20-30 minutes.

AND SERVE!

Presentation tip: Buy a large cellophane bag ($1) from Michaels and grab some ribbon. Keep the cake balls on the styrofoam tray and place the entire tray in the cellophane bag. Tie with ribbon and - viola! - you have your cake pops ready for any party or special event.