Description
Baking bliss awaits with this delightful cake pop recipe that combines playful sweetness and nostalgic charm. Creamy frosting and tender cake crumbles create irresistible bite-sized treats for parties or personal indulgence.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 (225 g) box cake mix (any flavor)
- ½ cup (120 ml) frosting (store-bought or homemade)
- 2 cups (340 g) chocolate or candy melts (any color)
- 3 large eggs
- ⅓ cup (80 ml) vegetable oil
- ½ cup (120 ml) water
- cake pop sticks
- sprinkles or decorations (optional)
Instructions
- Cake Crumbling: Pulverize the baked cake into fine, uniform crumbs using fingertips or a fork, eliminating any substantial fragments.
- Mixture Preparation: Blend frosting into cake crumbles, creating a cohesive mixture with a sand-like consistency that compresses easily into compact spheres.
- Shaping: Craft smooth, uniform cake balls by gently rolling the mixture between palms, ensuring consistent size and seamless surfaces without cracks.
- Chilling: Arrange cake spheres on a parchment-lined tray and refrigerate for 25-35 minutes to solidify their structural integrity.
- Chocolate Preparation: Melt chocolate or candy melts in a microwave-safe container, stirring intermittently to achieve a glossy, silky texture.
- Stick Insertion: Dip cake pop sticks’ ends into melted chocolate, then carefully embed them midway into chilled cake spheres, using chocolate as a binding agent.
- Coating and Decoration: Fully immerse each cake pop in molten chocolate, rotating to ensure complete coverage and eliminate excess drips. While chocolate remains wet, immediately adorn with sprinkles or chosen embellishments.
- Setting: Position cake pops vertically in a specialized holder or foam block, allowing them to set and maintain their elegant, spherical configuration.
Notes
- Crumb Consistency: Ensure cake crumbs are ultra-fine and uniform, breaking down any large pieces to create a smooth, cohesive mixture that binds perfectly.
- Moisture Management: Add frosting gradually, checking texture frequently – the mix should hold together when pressed without being too wet or too dry, similar to moist sandbox sand.
- Chill for Stability: Refrigeration is crucial for structural integrity; cold cake balls prevent crumbling and make chocolate coating process much smoother and more controlled.
- Coating Technique: Melt chocolate at low temperature, stirring constantly to prevent burning, and dip cake pops at a 45-degree angle for clean, even chocolate coverage without excess dripping.
- Prep Time: 45 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 23
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 200 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 1 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 20 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg