Easy Cake Pop Recipe
Best and most moist cake pops you will ever taste! Very simple, great for birthdays and events
Equipment
- Mixer
- Mixing bowls
- Spatula
- 9 inch cake pan
- candy warmer
- Baking pan
- Wax paper
- Candy sticks
Ingredients
- 1 Box Any store bought box cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
- 1 cup water
- 1 container Icing Cream cheese icing for cake mixes such as spice cake, strawberry, carrot cake etc. Regular Icing to match cake (vanilla for vanilla cake, Chocolate or fudge for any chocolate cake)
- 3 bags Candy melts
Instructions
- Gather your ingredients to make the cake
- Ingredients to dip the cake pops
- Preheat oven per directions provided on box of cake mixed used (typical 325)
- combine cake mix, eggs, water, vegetable oil into mixer or mixing bowl and mix until smooth
- scrape mixture into lightly greased cake pan with spatula
- Bake for 28 minutes or per box recommendation
- When cake is finished, let cake cool for 1 hour
- Once cake is cooled, crumble cake into a large mixing bowl
- add half container of chosen icing into the bowl and begin to combine using a spatula or your hands. knead as if your are kneading pay-dough
- Once the mixture is fully combined, form dense ping pong ball sized cake balls. Do not be afraid to smoosh the mixture together. You can use a smaller ice cream scoop to keep them all similar size. lightly roll with your hands around and around until they form a ball. once finished, place on a pan lined with wax paper and place in the refrigerator and let cool for about an hour
- Using a candy warmer or silicon bowl, begin to melt a small handful of the candy melts (maybe 4-5) As the candy melts, begin to dip each stick into the chocolate/candy and sticking them into the cake balls.
- Dipping the sticks almost all the way through the cake. This will allow the candy to act as an adhesive to the stick to keep it in place when dipping the pops. Place in the fridge for 20 minutes to allow candy to harden
- Begin melting a bag of the candy melts in your warmer. If you do not have a candy warmer, you can place the candy into a bowl into the microwave for 30-60 seconds at a time, stirring in between. This step can be very tedious and can go wrong easily if the candy melt or chocolate is over cooked. once its overcooked, the candy/chocolate is impossible to work with. You want it to be runny enough to be able to dip the ball into it. Using the warmer, I have found that if you start on "high" setting until you see some of the candy being melted about 40% then switch to warm and continue to stir. This keeps the candy at the perfect temperature for dipping. You can also use chocolate chips in place of the Candy, it usually dips easier, as the chocolate is softer, but does not dry as hard.
- Once the candy is at the right consistency, begin to dip the cake pops with the sticks. do not attempt to keep the pops in the candy for very long, act quickly and at an angle or the cake pop will more than likely fall off. You will feel if the cake is getting loose, so be mindful of twisting it and not holding it straight up and down for the cake pop to slide off.
- quickly place the dipped cake pop on the wax paper baking pan and decorate to your liking. The candy hardens fast so you will only be able to decorate right after it is dipped. Once all are dipped, you may place in the refrigerator to harden the candy melt
- Set them on your favorite serving platter and Enjoy!
