sweet inspiration & fun baking ideas

Hi Bakerella,

First, let me say that you are the BOMB! I love your site and all of your creations. I am dying to make a successful batch of cake balls. I use the candy melts (not bark coating). No matter what I do, each ball cracks. I am pretty sure that it is the moisture seeping out of the cake balls. I did everything to combat the moisture. I used less icing and waited until the cake was completely cooled to mix it in. After removing my balls from the freezer, I patted them down to remove any moisture related to the condensation on the cake balls. Nothing works. I love the candy melts because the chocolate sets so quickly and it’s easier to work with than the bark. Plus, it just looks more consistent. Is there something that I am doing wrong??? Please help. I really want a good batch of these before Xmas. But at this rate, it’s not gonna happen. Thank you!!

Hi!!!!
How come i can’t find the recipe for this Popsicle-cake?? What is the link to the recipe?? I think i prefer to have the chocolate cake inside, and some white chocolate frosting outside.. can i have the recipe for the chocolate cake inside please? since i dun want to use colorings on the cake..

Angela – what brand of chocolate are you using.

How long are they in the freezer. I only put mine in for a few min. They don’t get frozen. Also, you don’t need the chocolate to be super hot. It might be the combination of the two temperature states reacting.

kartika – These two posts should help. You can use any cake/frosting combo with any candy coating colors you like.

http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2008/08/hope-these-put-smile-on-your-face.html

http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2008/04/make-your-cupcakes-pop.html

Hi Bakerella! I finally made your cake pops – Yay! Thank you so much for the recipe and inspiration. Everyone loved them, and I had so much fun making them. Here is a link to some of my pics. Thanks again!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11642&l=11ead&id=1454815692

Dawn – love em. And cute way to drizzle the tops.

If you want them to be pink on the inside, try cherry chip cake mix and cherry frosting. I make cake balls with them all the time.

Chrisy – thanks. I finally made them with a strawberry cake and they were great.

Hi Bakerella, I really love your blog. I’ll link it to mine shortly. I am planning to make some for v-day. I tried to find candy melts in the stores locally and I can’t find any. Is the candy melts similar to chocolate toppings. Is it the same thing as cooking chocolate? I also cant find any velvet cake so I am gonna use hot chocolate fudge, will that be alright? Thanks!

Artowawa – You can use any cake and frosting combination you like. For the chocolate, you can try regular morsels or baking chocolate, but add a few drops of oil to thin it out if it’s too thick. It’s not the same as candy coating, but it should work in a pinch.

Hi Bakerella, thanks for the quick reply. I have another question. I have not seen any cream cheese frosting in the local stores. Is it ok to use cream cheese? Or is there any other substitute?

trying these for the first time today, using strawberry cake (from a box) and the white candy melts.. drizzling with pink for the final step. Thanks for this great creation!

Artowawa – for the cake balls, you can use any flavor frosting you like.

southernjoy – sounds so pretty. good luck.

Someone’s using your photo!

:)

http://jsgoodiez.blogspot.com/

Thanks for the heads up. I asked them to remove the pics and they did.

Thanks again

Bakerella

Hi I’m Siti from Singapore. This is pretty cool. It is difficult to make. Because this would give me an idea for a children day celebration. They sure to love it.

Not too bad if you can find the candy coating.

This is my first time making the cake pops and they are in the fridge as we speak! I just wish I had more room so that I can refrigerate them with the lollipop sticks in. I wonder if it’s possible to stick them in after they’ve been refrigerated?

Oh and I also forgot to mention: http://limvicky.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/bakerella/

You truly, truly inspire me in many ways.

limvicky – I’m impressed. Great job for your first or fiftieth time.

These are SO adorable and perfect for my daughter’s upcoming 4th birthday! I’ve even made a “cake” out of silk flowers and floral foam to display them in (yellow, with pink and red to match princess Belle’s dress). But I need HELP! I’ve tried twice now and they just fall apart and fall off the lollipop stick when I try to dip them in the chocolate. Am I using too much frosting? I chilled them – prior to putting the sticks in and again prior to dipping – they were a bit gooey when I was rolling them into balls. Any thoughts? Also any tips on decorating them with sprinkles or colored sugar? My daughter is having a prince/princess party and I plan on using pink cake and dipping them in either pink or regular milk choc. candy melts. Sorry for rambling. Thanks so much!!!

if they are too moist, try adding a little less frosting.

Also, make sure your chocolate isn’t too thick in texture.

Use a deep enought bowl, so you can dunk and remove in one motion. And make sure the chocolate secures around the base of the stick.

I am trying to make the little cupcake’s on a stick. The ones that look like little cupcakes. My question is, When do I put the stick in since I am making the little cups for them to sit in?

Sarah – If you are talking about the plastic molds that look like peanut butter cups, then, I don’t put the sticks in those. I just leave them as cute little cupcakes.

Hi Bakerella! I made these cake pops for a friend's baby shower last weekend and they were a huge hit! I made one batch with devil's food cake and chocolate coating, and one batch with vanilla cake and vanilla coating. There's a link to my blog post HERE if you're interested in checking them out. Thank you so much for the inspiration! I will definitely be making these again!

These are adorable (and look so tasty). Have you ever made these ahead of time and frozen the cake balls prior to decorating them? I am throwing a shower and these pops would be great, but I don't know if I could get them all done the day of the party.

Nope, but I have frozen the finished product with good results.

Hi bakerella ! Thanks for sharing this wonderful ideas. i've try to make the cake pops several times, though the work is alot the result is yummy and cute. But i have a problem. Every time i make this, first the white chocolate never seems to melt rigth even though i've follow the instructions of how to melt choco (i buy this choco in a fine chocolaterie store here in my country). And Second and most important i live in the caribbean and in here temperature is really hot and the chocolate melts really easy is like a waste i cant even put it in a box for a gift without the worry if its gonna stand. So my question is if there any suggestion of another coverage rather than melted candy or chocolate, So i can storage in a gift box or lollipops plastic bags without the concern that it will melt and become a mess. I know its kind of difficult to find a substitute :S but i hope you can help me.

Thanks bakerella for taking the time of reading this :)

You can try this version by CakeJournal

http://www.cakejournal.com/archives/cake-bites

thanks alot! I´ll let you now how it went and i´ll post some pictures.

hi! i was wondering if this recipe would work if i substituted the chocolate cake mix for brownie mix instead?

A friend recommended your blog to me recently. I love it! The cake pops are adorable. My daughter turns 2 this weekend and I would love to try to make some for her party. I have searched and searched your blog to find the orginal cake pop instructions but I can’t seem to find it. Can you help me?
Thanks!!
Abbie

These are delightful, I cannot wait to try them on my own! I have a similar recipe, but instead of cake we use oreos! no baking necessary! Just crush and mix with the oreos, dip and eat. I bet they would be even cuter and yummier on a stick! Thanks for the inspirations

HELP! I can’t get the chocolate smoothly on the balls and I cannot get them to stay on the stick :( I suck. I put them in the freezer for a few minutes with the stick in them. When I pull them out and try to coat with chocolate, the balls crumble and the chocolate doesn’t spread well or evenly. Then they fall off the stick. :(

Hi Bakerella,
I’m so glad I found your website, your cakes are so beautiful! You’ve inspired me to try making cake pops, as I’ve got some left over red velvet cake from trying to make an apple-logo shaped birthday cake for my pet geek. I just thought I would post a link for anyone who wants to make these in the UK. Sadly it’s hard to get a lot of the cool products here that you’ve got in the USA. I’ve never seen a red velvet cake mix (it’s not a common type of cake here, I only heard of it cos someone on Grey’s Anatomy wanted it for her wedding cake), and we also don’t have ready made cream cheese frosting – we’ve got to do it all the hard way! So here’s a recipe for red velvet that always works for me:

http://www.joyofbaking.com/RedVelvetCake.html

and a good recipe for cream cheese frosting:

http://elise.com/recipes/archives/007127cream_cheese_frosting.php

Sorry, I don’t know if the proportions are similar to your recipe, so I guess we’ll have to experiment with frosting: cake ratios!

And finally, for those of us who can’t find reliable measuring cups, this is the best webste for converting to UK imperial or metric measurements:

http://onlineconversion.com/

Hope that helps! Anyway, I’m off to play with my food. I’ve decided my new ambition/ goal in life is to make some of the Hello Kitty cake pops – probably the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!
Thank you Bakerella :-)

Bakerella,
I made about 100 cake pops for a Birthday party this weekend. They were beautiful- except about an hour later they started to crack. What did i wrong? the balls were still quite cold from being in the freezer- would that have done it?

I’m so hungry right now! Deliscious!

Hi,
Your link (red velvet cake ball recipe) doesn’t work. It jumps the reader back to the main page.
btw, your site looks delicious!

Hi! Can you tell me exactly how you made them into balls? Is there a special cake pan? Did you get that at hobby lobby too? Thanks! I’m super excited to make these for a shower!

LOVE your blog and your recipes! Made the cake pops this weekend and they were a big hit. They were simply delicious and have inspired lots of ideas for different flavors, etc. Thank you for sharing an outstanding recipe. Oh, and I wear my bakerella T-shirt with pride! Please keep posting.

Looks adorable ! I wanna try it :D I have already found a red velvet cake recipe but i don’t think that my country has this hmm candy melts … are they are chocolate ?

I made these cak pops for my October 3rd wedding, and everyone loved them. I made them bigger than what you had on here and we dipped them in white and dark chocolate.But still today we got a comment on how great these were. Thank you for the great idea. Our cake lady backed out on us a week before the wedding so we were a little stressed. But we got a 7 inch red velvet for my husband and I to cut and everyone else had a cake pop or two and they loved them.

Im sooo happy I found your website your Idea’s are amazing Thanks

This is a great idea!!! i will be attending a BREAST CANCER AWARNESS party follwing a walk…These are a great dessert idea ,suitable for the day with….red velvet cake and pink frosting..Thanx Vera

I just made some of these for my sister’s baby shower and they turned out adorable! I’ve posted them on my blog along with the other shower paraphernalia: lilyjanestationery.typepad.com. Thanks so much for all your fantastic ideas! I’m thrilled to have found your blog.

I love these! My husband has weird food issues and refuses to eat anything rolled in my hands and then not cooked… i’m going to tell him i cooked the second batch. ha.
I made the cake pops last night and let them chill overnight. I just tried dipping them and they slid down the stick! I had to come back to the site to find some tips. I did find some…I was so worried, I’m serving these today at my son’s birthday party – Halloween themed! I’m making the ghosts and skulls. I’m so excited!!!

I plan to make pumpkin cake balls. I have the pumpkin cake baked, and in the freezer already. Then the day before I need them for a party – I’ll mix them with the cream cheese frosting, and dip them in vanilla bark, with a few butterscotch chips melted with the vanilla. Then I plan to melt more butterscotch chips to drizzle over the cooled balls. I think they sound really good, —- hope they taste as good as they sound! Wish me luck!!!

Someone’s using your photos

http://www.cupcakekinny.com/cakepops.html

Just about to make these for the first time and I am sure they wont last long without being eaten but do you know how far ahead of time I could make these yummy little things?

When I’m done dipping them into the mets, what do you stick them
in?

Hi Bakerella!! I love all your creations! I tried making the cake pops a few days ago but ran into a problem. As I was dipping the cake balls into the candy melts, they came off the lollipop sticks! Even after I left them in the refrigerator for a couple days they still wouldn’t hang on after I bit into them. I dipped the ends of the stick into the candy melts before I put them into the cake balls, so does this mean my cake mixture was too moist? (I also mixed the candy melts with some shortening to thin it out, could that have been the problem?)

Thanks so much bakerella! I made the reindeer, the christmas trees and tried some snow men, christmas decoration balls and some christmas puddings (dont think you have these in the USA) but very cute! All turned out gorgeous and the kids in my playgroup were loving them! I did have trouble with the second batch cracking after dipped and dry but think you answered that one for someone else when you said they must have been too cold and the change in temp meant they expanded cracking the chocolate!

One more question – I seem to get a nice smooth glossy surface when I use the bark but when using the green melts I got a dull almost chalky look/ feel to them….not really noticeable but just different to the finish of the bark – was hoping they would have a glossier finish! Any suggestions?

Bakerella, you are seriously a goddess to my 16 year old twins. Recently, for their birthday, I made almost 100 pops for their party (as favors for the kids to take home) and for their soccer team. I sent you several photos of the results. I refrigerated them, and for a couple of weeks, I put a cake-pop in their lunch each day; they are the envy of their classmates.

I do have a question – I’m having trouble with the candy coating cracking after it sets. I’m pretty sure it has to do with when to, and not to refrigerate…..should you refrigerate the pops as soon as they are coated? I don’t understand why some of the pops crack and others don’t – any clues for me?

Ok, I made my pumpkin cake balls, and they were a huge hit! They looked quite pretty, too, with the melted butterscotch chips drizzled over the top of the vanilla dipped balls!

I just wanted to say…. you are my hero!! Your art inspires me and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your amazing talent!! What a blessing!! I am mom to 7 sons, ages 2 to 18, and I quit my job in April, so that I could be a stay at home mom again. It was so hard trying to manage home and work. My boys needed me. My husband and I have been making and selling our own line of soy candles and I also sell my baked goods to area boutiques to help supplement his income. Things have begun to pick up in the last few weeks, and we are so grateful. Thank you for giving me the inspiration to go on. I have been so depressed that I had made the wrong decision about leaving my job since we lost half of our income, but I hope and pray that our little ventures will finance this dream of mine….. to be here for our boys. I was making some Elmo pops this past week, and kind of chuckled to myself as I was making them. Dabbing on and toothpicking to perfection red “fur”. In my former life, I never would have had the time nor the inclination to attempt such a thing, but these little pops, while as you warned were time-consuming, gave me such joy! My two year olds eyes just lit up! What satisfaction to see these come to life. I am attempting to add these to my offerings to enrich others lives as well as my own. I give all credit to you and thank you again for being so selfless and sharing your gifts with all your admirers!!
Thanks again!!

Hi! I love your site… I have been wanting to get into bakeing for sometime now… So for my first project I decided to make the cake pops I love them on your site and well the ones I made we’re just to sweet can you recommend a box cake and frosting that’s not so sweet. I used buttercream frosting. It was so sweet it was not edible and I had to throw the whole batch in the trash… Please help.. Oh do you have a book……

Hi! I love your site… I have been wanting to get into bakeing for sometime now… So for my first project I decided to make the cake pops I love them on your site and well the ones I made we’re just to sweet can you recommend a box cake and frosting that’s not so sweet. I used buttercream frosting. It was so sweet it was not edible and I had to throw the whole batch in the trash… Please help.. Oh do you have a book……

Hi! Thanks to your fabulous recipe I’m gonna be the best aunt in the world making them for my niece’s kindergarten graduation party!

I need a little help though. As I couldn’t get candy melts here, I used chocolate for coating my cupcake pops. The base was wonderfully coated but when it came to the top, my white chocolate seemed to be rather translucent. Did I use a wrong kind of chocolate or did something go wrong in my heating process? My dark chocolate was easy enough to melt but the white chocolate was too sticky. I added corn syrup (think I read somewhere along the comments that I could do that). But it didn’t work. I added shortening (again read somewhere) and it still didn’t work. In the end I added milk (in exasperation!) and got it to the right consistency. Except for the transparency, it coated well otherwise. Please advise! Thanks! =D

I’m trying to make the cake pops but have a question. What’s the final texture of the cake supposed to be like? I’ve put the icing in the cake and its been in the fridge since yesterday afternoon but I feel like it’s going to be mushy once candy coated. :( Help?

Bakerella…I have made cake balls for several years and they are truly fabulous! I am going to try your reindeer ones; however, I have NEVER been able to get my chocolate coating to be as smooth and uniform as you did with the reindeer ones. What’s your secret? I plan on using the wilton melts…also, when you dip them and put them on the styrofoam to harden, does the chocolate ever drip down?

I’m making these for a birthday party and I live in Australia, because I live in the fab land of Oz we don’t have chocolate bark and candy melts, but could we just get white chocolate and used non-toxic food dye instead? I’m thirteen BTW and I ain’t too bright when it comes to science stuff.
xx

Our church has a christmas cookie & candy walk fundraiser every year, and I saw these, and thought they were adorable. I just used yellow cake (that’s the mix I had on hand.) and I dipped them in the chocolate candy melts, and drizzled red and green on them. They’re adorable! Who knows, I may make santa hats and reindeer next year!

Wow… your page is great… Thanks for sharing. In Mexico many supplys are not avaible or are very expensive but your ideas are easy to make…

in my country i can’t find the candy melt ,… is there any way to produce it myself? or any substitute? i really want to make the cake pops.
i already did them with chocolate but, we are almoust in summer and they melt so quikly…..
please any sugestions?

I think these would be just the right thing for Breast Cancer Awareness month!! If one could figure out a way to incorporate a small “ribbon”……wow, they would be simple amazing…
Footnote: Im making those Red Velvet ones for a Holiday Party and cant wait for the reviews. What a terrific site I have stumbled upon!!!!!!!

hi.. im mara from the philippines… im trying to look for recipes regarding cupcakes coz its my first time to make one.. then, when i saw an episode of you with martha in our cable, i got so inspired by your concept.. what recipe of cupcake would you suggest for starters like me?

I made your cake balls for my friend’s Baby Shower. I used Strawberry cake mix, buttercream icing and white chocolate bark. The buttercream icing made them a lil stickier than usual but the colors were wonderful for the beautiful lil girl who came a couple of weeks later.

Thanks so much i made these for my friends at school and family for chrismas gifts, they went over incredibly well and everyone asked for the recipe. I was just wondering as far as giving out credit if you have these trade marked or anything at all. Im only a teenager but im an inspiring pasty chef and at some point would love to have my own pastry shop and i would hate to take credit even now if it is not right. once again thanks so much im even getting asked to make a couple dozen for some of my friends parents so they can give them to there family members! really i cant thank you enough because ive had so much fun making these and geting commplemets for what i make is soo great! If you get time i would really like to know about whether i need to give credit because i dont want to take credit if i cant. THANKS SO MUCH!

Made these over the weekend and the directions on this website were great – a little hard to make them look as perfectly cute as in the picture, but they taste delicious!!

i read a blurb about you in the December Better Homes and Gardens and went to your blog right away. Great ideas!!

I want to make these for Christmas goodies. Do they stay fresh with the chocolate coating on them for a few days or do I need to make them the day before handing them out?

I made cake pops for a birthday party a few months ago, now every time I go to any event everyone asks me to make them! Best treat ever!

have you done anything fun for a baby (boy) shower?

Bakerella,

I just recently discovered “Cake Balls” and your website!! Wow!!! You’ve got a lot of really cute ideas and I can’t wait to try making some. Have you ever tried to make these with a brownie mix, and will these make well with homemade cake/icing? Keep up the good work and I’m looking forward to more of your ideas!!

Can I use strawberry cake mix if I want them pink? Pillsbury FUNFETTI cake mix might look cute with white chocolate and colored sprinkles!! You are awesome and i love your blog name ;)

I’m scared but I am going to try it this weekend. We will see what happens. : /

These are incredibly adorable, when I tried to make them though they were to heavy to stay on the sticks and kept sliding down onto the styrofoam it was a nightmare

So I attempted to make these, my cake ball wouldn’t stay on the stick. I’m thinking I used to much frosting but I used what you said. I put them in the freezer before i dipped them. But in the end, I had to make cake balls. : ( I will try again though, these are to cute not to get right.

ADMP: I think what your reall problem might be either the size of your cake ball for the stick or the way you are dipping them. You cant dip the whole thing in upside down or they will fall off you have to put the side of the pop in the bowl and roll and spoon the chocolate on. It takes a lot of time to get it smooth and such but it is well worth it. I have made many batches of these and i think these are the problems you are running into, also if your chocolate or almond bark or what ever is too thick that could be pulling the cake off as well. Make sure you tap off the excess as well because that could be making them heavy. Hope I helped : ) and your right they are adorable they were my christmas presents to my friends at school this year : )

OMG!
This is really cool!
I love it! <3
But, I want to do this with normal cake mix.
Is that possible?

xoxo

Great job!!! It is amazing!!!!

Im spanish speaker and I can´t understand what is “can frosting”. ¿Could you explian with other words for me?
Thanks a lot!!! Ana

As a new baker, I tried your recipe for a holiday party and they were a HUGE hit. I want to say thank you for all your recipes and ideas. I must remember to thin out the chocolate a bit since mine were so thick. Still, a pop of heaven.

Je t’adore Bakerella.com!!!

hi! can you send the recipe of how to make a cakepops. tnx..sheryllcarlos@yahoo.com

how do you “transport” these cake pops?

White cake mix + as much dry jello mix as you need to get your color. I used blackberry…I think. It made a beautiful pink cake about the color of your “submit” button down here. :D

Hi, these cake pops are lovely!
I’d like to try, but I need to know the approximate weight of the cake. I cannot find the cake mix you mention.
Could you help me?
It would be great if I could make them for my son’s birthday party next Saturday.
Thanks!
Antonella

hi! im from Argentina i just love all the ideas that you have

Hey Bakerella!
I only recently discovered your blog while looking for dessert recipes to make for a band potluck I had the other day. I’m 16 years old and just wanted to say that you have inspired me A LOT. I love love love baking so much more now! I made brownie pops for the potluck and they were a huge hit! Everyone absolutely loved them and those who saw pictures of then were completely jealous. I couldn’t have done it without your blog and can’t wait to try your other recipes as well. Keep up the good work!

hello.. im thinking of making St.Patty’s Day Cake Balls! — I tried clicking on the link for the red velvet cake balls, and it didnt take me to the recipe/how to.. can you please tell me where i can find it?

thanks, and i am loving your website .. YUM!

Just wondering if you have another cake recipe for the cake balls – I do not like red velvet!! Please let me know!!

I made your cake pops last night for Valentine’s Day treats. They’re really yummy and adorable! I did the red velvet cake/cream cheese frosting and dipped half in pink and half in white chocolate.

My only question is how do you keep one side from becoming flat when you place them on the wax paper? I ended up placing the lollipop stick in the top and putting treat bags over them and tying with rick rack and other ribbons. So they sit on the ball part, not stand on the stick.

So far they’ve been a big hit! Thanks for the great idea.

These are so cute…you have the best ideas…I want to try to make the cake balls but would like to try with chocolate cake mix..should I still mix it with cream cheese? or do I use someother type of frosting?

I made these yesterday for my kids to take to school today. I followed your directions exactly and they came out perfect. I think dipping the stick in the chocolate before putting in the ball is key. I used the Wilton pink melts and valentine’s sprinkles right after dipping. I then put them in valentine lollipop bags I purchased at Michael’s. Thanks for the idea!

Bakerella, you’re amazing!

In contrast to you, I’ve never considered myself much of a baker… but I’ve been feeling adventurous in the kitchen lately, so I decided to go big and make some “Cupid Pops” for Valentine’s Day. I think they turned out pretty cute… and everyone I gave them to were completely enchanted with them (thanks to you!).

Here’s a link to my blog post about them, which includes a few pictures… and, of course, a shout out to YOU, the Queen of Cake Pops! http://www.kareening.blogspot.com/

Thank you for sharing all your crazy cuteness!