Cake Pops
Cake Pops are quite the trend now and have so many different shapes and ways that you can make these poppable cakes, the fun never ends.
Enjoy these fun, festive creative ideas. Please feel free to share your creative designs with us.
Let your imagination run wild!
Spring and Summer Cake Pops
Spring Flowers
Cake recipe to use:
Recommended cake flavor: Chocolate
What you will need for dipping and decorating
- brown candy melts
- assorted candies
- Petals-flattened marshmallows, hot tamales, candy corn and jellybeans
- Flower centers- M&M’s, Skittles, Reese’s Pieces
After dipping cake balls in brown candy melts make sure to put cake pops tops down flat on a foiled lined cake pan, so they are standing straight up. This will allow you to have a flat surface to make your flowers. Allow cake pops to dry completely.
Once cake pops are set place in cake pop stand or in styrofoam block to hold while you create your flowers.
Choose your flower centers and using left over candy melts (you may have to reheat if hardened) dab some on the bottom of the candy and place in the center of the cake pop
Use your candy of choice to create your petals, using left over candy melts (you may have to reheat if hardened) dab some on the bottom of the candy and start placing them around the center of candy piece to shape your flower.
Follow here for directions on dipping and more decorating tips
Ice Cream Cones
Cake recipe to use:
Recommended cake flavor: Confetti
What you will need for dipping and decorating
- M&M’s
- ice cream cones
- brown candy melts
- white candy melts
- sprinkles /confetti
Fill the handle of the ice cream cone with M&M’s to use for weight. Dip half of your cake ball into candy melts and set in ice cream cone, place in refrigerator.
Once set, dip other side of cake pop into candy melt, you can do this by holding the cone base and dipping cake ball first or you can hold the cone sideways and use a pouring technique.
Adding sprinkles /confetti or cherry on top (red M&M) do this 1-2mins after dipping. You want the candy melts to be tacky not wet as the sprinkles /confetti and cherry on top (red M&M) will slide off.
To make a chocolate drip on vanilla ice cream cone, make sure the white candy melts have set completely. Drip brown candy melts with spoon in the middle of cake ball to form a puddle, letting it drip along the side of the ball. (you may have to reheat if hardened)
Follow here for directions on dipping and more decorating tips
Cake Pops for showers
White and Blue
*These were made for a bridal shower*
Cake recipe to use: Blue and White cake balls.
Cake recipe to use: Wedding cake pop
Recommended cake flavor: Any
What you will need for dipping and decorating
After dipping cake pops into white candy melts, wait 1-2mins after drying and roll cake pops into blue sugar crystals and white sugar crystals.
Swirls
Once cake pops dry completely take a small spoon or piping bag and with white candy melts, hold cake pop on its side starting at the top drip the white candy melt twirl in a circular motion until you get to the bottom of the cake pop. Let dry for 1-2mins then roll in sprinkles.
Holiday Cake Pops
Easter Egg Cake Balls
Cake recipe to use:
Using the recipe below, you will shape your cake ball mixture to look like eggs.
You can do this in many ways depending on how thick you want your cake shapes to turn out.
Some ideas on how to do this:
- Using plastic easter eggs as a mold. Spray lightly with cooking spray and use either the whole egg or just half the egg. Put your cake ball mixture into the plastic egg and press to form your shape. Place in refrigerator to allow to set before dipping.
- Candy molds work really well. Using an egg shape candy mold place your cake ball mixture into the mold pressing firmly. Allow to set before removing from mold. Once removed place on cookie sheet and put in refrigerator to allow to set completely before dipping.
Recommended cake flavor: White or Yellow
What you will need for dipping and decorating
- Assorted sprinkles/confetti
- Assorted Spring color candy melts
- Utensil of your choice for drizzle dripping
Once you have finished dipping, decorate your eggs to look like easter eggs, with different designs. Using assorted sprinkles/confetti and different colored candy melts.
If using sprinkles/confetti wait 1-2mins then apply. The candy melt should just be a little tacky but not wet.
If drizzling or making designs with candy melts, wait until eggs dry completely. If you decorate before candy melts set, the candy will be too heavy warm and heavy and will start to melt into the candy base coat and weigh on the eggs.
Follow here for directions on dipping and more decorating tips
Easter Bunny Cake Pops
Cake recipe to use:
Recommended cake flavor: White or Yellow
What you will need for dipping and decorating
- black food pen
- pink confetti hearts
- pink candy corn
- white candy melts
After dipping cake pops into white candy melts, Put ears and heart confetti for nose on 1-2mins after drying. Draw on eyes, whiskers, and mouth when cake ball is completely dry.
Follow here for directions on dipping and more decorating tips
Chicks
Cake recipe to use:
Recommended cake flavor: White or Yellow
What you will need for dipping and decorating
- yellow candy melts
- black food pen
- yellow and orange confetti stars
After dipping cake pops into yellow candy melts, 1-2mins after dipping, put yellow confetti stars on the side for wings, and orange confetti stars for beak and lay the orange confetti stars flat on the bottom of the cake pop for feet. Draw on eyes with a black food pen after cake pop dries completely.
Follow here for directions on dipping and more decorating tips
Thanksgiving Turkeys
Recommended cake flavor: Any
What you will need for dipping and decorating
- Brown candy melts
- Fall candy corn
- Small candy eyes
- Orange flower edible confetti
- Red M&M’s
- Red heart edible confetti
- Orange tube frosting
Dip cake pops in melted brown candy melts. Allow to cool for 2-3mins. and place two yellow edible flower confetti towards the bottom of the cake ball for the feet.
Place in refrigerator to allow candy to set. While cake balls are setting, cut the orange tips off the candy corn and set aside
Now take the candy corn with no tips and using the orange tube frosting, glue 4 candy corn pieces to each cake ball in the back to look like feathers.
Now take a red M&M and using the orange tube frosting glue the M&M in the front middle portion of the cake ball for the face.
Add the candy eyes, and now using the orange tips you cut off the candy corn for the nose. Taking a small amount of orange tube frosting glue a red heart, tip going into the frosting, just under the M&M for the wattle.
And there you have it little Thanksgiving Turkey Cake Balls.
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