Which sticks to use for cake pops

BUT, the good news is, once you get the hang of it, tasty homemade cake pops are a breeze and yes, I do still screw up sometimes and I can promise you the messed up ones still taste just as good!

Before we get started, I want to say that my way is not the only way. Some people like to use a cake pop maker and bake fresh cake balls, giving you, essentially, a ball of cake on a stick. I achieve my favorite truffle-like texture by mixing fully baked cake that has been crumbled into pieces with frosting. The texture is gooey, dense, and like the texture of a fudgy brownie. Another personal preference of mine is to work with stale ish cake. Stale cake is drier than freshly baked cake, and while this may be the last thing you want your slice of cake to be, this is the very thing you want your cake pop cake to be— lots of room for soaking up frosting and increased ability to stick together!

Here are, in my opinion, the best sticks for cake pops. You can find these in any craft store or store with a baking section WalMart, Target. One last thing… I prefer using Wilton candy melts for my coating because they are made for purposes like this. First, line two baking sheets with foil or parchment and set aside. Crumble your cake any flavor into tiny pieces. Either way, you want this crumb to be very fine.

This can be homemade frosting or store-bought, and any flavor you like. This is also where you would add spices if you wanted to add 1 teaspoon of spice, taste, and add more as necessary. The cake to icing ratio for cake pops is totally up to you and the desired finished texture you want for your pops. Adjust as needed by simply going be feel. If you have a moist cake, add 3 Tablespoons of frosting and go from there.

This is where you definitely want to get your hands dirty. Work the frosting into the cake by squeezing and pushing until everything is uniform in texture.

My homemade frosting linked in the recipe or store bought should be totally fine for this. Roll all of the cake into balls approximately 1 Tablespoon in size. Use a Tablespoon measure if you are unsure how big this is.

Try to keep the cake balls on the small side. If they are too big, they will be too heavy, and you will definitely lose them in the dipping step. Place your cake balls onto one of your prepared baking sheets. As the candy melts start getting meltier?? It is possible to overheat them, and they will turn to a crumbly, dry mess.

Stirring will help distribute the heat. Grab your cake pop sticks. Push this stick into a cake ball about halfway. The melted candy will form a little mound. This is just fine and what you want to happen. Repeat until all cake balls have sticks, and place in the freezer for 15 minutes. You may have to reheat your candy melts a little bit start with 20 seconds on MEDIUM power , but do not work with hot melts!

As long as you are able to stir your melts and they seem to still be in a fairly viscous state, reheating is not necessary. Side note… Please excuse my blurry photos below. Turns out that even using a tripod, it is quite difficult to get action shots when you are constantly moving your photographic subject. I have a habit of tilting my bowl, but this is just the way I prefer to do it and find it makes things easier.

Work quickly, as leaving the cake ball in the melts too long is a good way to lose it from the stick! Lift the cake ball out of the melts and slowly twirl the stick to allow the excess to drip off.

Pull the cake pop to the edge of the bowl and, while still twirling slowly, allow the bowl to scrape the excess from where the stick meets the pop. You may place your finished cake pops on your second baking sheet which will make their tops a bit flat OR you may do what I did here and allow them to dry right side up in a tall glass.

I have also used a large styrofoam block which is a super easy way to allow several cake pops to dry at once. Package them up in plastic goodie bags or serve them as is on a plate or platter.

I stated above that if your candy melts are too hot and your cake balls are too cold, there will be earthquake city all over the surface of your cake pop. Usually the cake pops are placed on the end of a lollipop stick to make them fun to serve. Making the desserts without the stick frees up more storage space and gives the cake pops a flat bottom.

People enjoy making cake pops because of the creativity involved in the process. The desserts are made from virtually any cake mix that you desire, and you can customize them for a special event or party. Melt the candy melts at 50 percent power for second intervals. Stir the candy coating and continue to heat it until it melts completely.

Drop one cake pop into the melted candy coating at a time. Move the cake pop around in the coating with a spoon until you cover it completely. Place the candy coating back into the microwave if it becomes too thick to work with.

This helps to thin out the chocolate. I talk about paramount crystals more here. If you put the sprinkles on too soon, they can slide off and take the chocolate with them. There is definitely a sweet spot time wise to adding the crystals, and I think a lot of it just takes some practice and patience to find what works. I like to stick to lighter sprinkles when I make my cake pops, the ones that weigh the least, such as sanding sugar, sugar crystals, jimmies and the like.

In find the sanding sugar and sugar crystals are the easiest. I do not submerge my cake pops in sprinkles. I tend to hold the cake pop over a bowl, and sprinkle on over it, catching the excess sprinkles. Often this is more dumping on sprinkles than it is sprinkling them.

While this video is of me making pretzels, you can see my dumping sprinkles on technique, if one could call it that. Obviously my strong tapping of the pretzel on the bowl is not what you would want to do with your cake pops.

How To Make Cakepops. How To Dip Cake Pops. I will be going into more detail in upcoming posts about the different ways I create the actual cake part of the cake pop, but hopefully some of the information here can be helpful. Make sure to check out the great links and videos — they are really helpful! I am going to make some cake pops for St. Thanks for the tips! This was very helpful!

Thanks so much for the tutorial, this is bound to come in handy! I am going to attempt to make my first pops and actually want to make them look like horses. Have you ever done the shaped pops? Any feedback would be so wonderful, Thank you! I was hoping to find out some brand names or where to go to buy what ingredients or something. Hello, I made my first set of cake pops today, and getting them on the sticks and staying on the sticks was a real challenge as before I had even started to decorate them they had fallen down the stick!!

Then the ones that did survive that stage then decided to fall off in my chocolate, it was not going well at all, I abandoned this set and made a new set following your helpful dip the stick in chocolate tip, and it worked at treat! Thank you so much all my problems are now solved!! I recently bought a cake pop mold from Keetzen in Amazon. My daughter and I are psyched to try out new recipes and ideas.

Hi i would like to know how to make only dozens without wasting cake mix. And how long i can keep them in the fridge when they are done. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.