sweet inspiration & fun baking ideas

Aubrey – in this post is a link to the edible ink pens I use. The brand is Americolor.

Hey!
I want to make your lovely pops, but I was wondering how many oz. one stick butter is..

1 stick of butter is 1/2 cup or 4 oz.

Just tried to make these, and as i remember from making pops around the holidays… I do not like the way the melts taste! Do you have any suggestions for an alternative? Maybe bakers chocolate? I do not want it to thick!

SOOOO glad I found your blog… don’t know what I would do with out it! You totally ROCK!!!!

have any inspiration blogs for cooking? don’t know what I am making for dinner tonight….hehe!

Cassie – you can try regular baking chocolate. I haven’t yet, but if you do – add a bit of shortening to help thin it out.

Cooking…
http://www.thepioneerwomancooks.com
http://www.smittenkitchen.com

look on my links page… i have a few on there.

I want to thank you for your excellent recipe and idea, I made them for my daughters university graduation, without a face because I did not have a marker, but they were a great hit, everybody loved them, and was a new idea in my country,(Guatemala) thank you again, for beint so speacial.

Thanks for sharing all the way from Guatemala, Grace!

Really, very nice.
I’ll try to make them.
Thanks

bakerella! these are you so cute, im going to make some for easter. weeee
i was planning on making a lemon cake (just picked up some meyer lemons), do you think a a pound cake will work better or a fluffier cake like texture for the cake pops?
Thank you much! =)

Bakerella, I love your pops! I’ve made the oreo balls for years, but I love the creative things you do with them and want to try making cake pops. I was wondering, does food coloring in white chocolate work as well as candy melts? I’ve never worked with candy melts and am a bit hesitant about the taste. Thanks!

I love the chicks and bunnies!!! How do you carry them in the car to other places?

bimby – yay

Anonymous – either should be fine. start out with 1/2 can of frosting and mix. then add more as needed.

Anonymous – as long as you use candy coloring, it should work fine for both.

sandie – a styrofoam block does the trick.

These are sooo amazing and adorable I had to make them for my daughters bday easter theme, her birthday is today…however on my first batch, everything was going wrong…I think I put to much cream cheese icing ( I used Duncan Hines creamy homestyle cream cheese frosting with the moist deluxe chocolate devils food cake ) it was kind of gooey but rolled very well, then I put them in the freezer since I had a short time to make them. I also used plastic stick (should I use paper? ) and they kept falling off when I would dip them, which was also a disaster, I think the chocolate was too thick, I’ll try thinning it with oil (as read in one of your response). But he’s my problem…my second batch I forgot in the freezer! Are they still good?
txs so much.

V or Nessa – Yes, the paper sticks are better. And I think you can still use them, just let them defrost to the point of just being chilled and firm. If they are too cold, it will make them difficult to dip. The chocolate will start to harden too quickly.

We made our second attempt last night…and thankfully the results were much better. You make it all look so easy…although the more you do, the better you get. I will never look at a sprinkle deco the same again (hummm…what can I make out of a blue snowflake…a foot…a crazy eye – ha ha). Anyway – I’m still having trouble with the candy melt cracking after they have set. I used Wilton and Bark coating and had the same problem. Do you ever have that problem?

I know exactly what you mean. I am always looking at candy differently now.

Next time you do them, don’t leave them in the freezer too long.

I love them. I made them with Strawberry cake mix and they exploded. Once the got hard the chocolate split and the fell off the stick. Any suggestions.
Thanks

Those are adorable!

Hi there, I did couple of the lollipop cakes (with the happy face on…:D) but i found that after the chocolate dried, it crack..split open (the coated chocolate..)
Is there’s any trick to prevent that?
your reply greatly appreciate it…

I love all your creations…looks fun!!

IF they do that again, try re-dipping them. I think it has something to do with freezing them too long and cake expanding.

How thin should the candy melts be. I felt that they were too thick when I tried…

These are wildly adorable!

thin enough to dip and remove easily without it getting stuck. Shortening can help thin it out.

Bakerella, have you ever tried using gel food coloring with the white bark melty stuff? I’m too cheap too lazy to go buy the colored melting chips….

You can color chocolate, but you have to use special candy color.

My cake pops dough is not cakey it is more the consistency of cream center. I used 2 cups homemade frosting, what is the consistency suppose to be?

To make them less moist, just add less frosting next time until the texture is moist enough to mold and still hold its shape.

These are awesome! I made some for a family picnic and they were a big hit. I wish I had read the previous comments before now – I see I'm not the only one who might have over done it in the freezer and had cracking problems.

I was disappointed that not all edible markers are made equal though – I bought the only type I found (Wilton's FoodWriter Edible color Markers) and they don't write on oily surfaces such as chocolate. But even cake pops without faces were a big hit. I'll have to make the little cupcakes next time if I can't find the right markers. And I'm already trying to find an excuse for a next time to make them. :)

this is cuteeee… i love it!!! <3 <3<3<3
i want to make it too..

I love your cake pops!! You are amazing!! I had some trouble making them…boo….my cake mix was like cookie dough…and my chocolate was too thick…any tips?
oh..and how long should I leave them in the frige? 10-15min?
Thanks for making these adorable pastries!!!

Sally – the mixture should be moist enough to mold and still hold it's shape. The coating can be thinned with shortening.

What do you do to get the liquid texture with the candy melts. I've struggling with mine, I see your are so smooth and shiny. Please help!!!

Add a product called paramount crystals or try shortening to thin it.

I made these (not smiley faces–no time to write on them) for the first time yesterday and shared with people at work. Big hit! The best compliment: these taste like how I imagine donut holes SHOULD taste like.

Hi from Texas, I made the pops but they were very sweet taste, what frosting do you use???

do they have o be chocolate? would like to try pink or yellow.. butterfly themed… how long to they last if not eaten? LOL

i had a big mess…too much frosting makes for too soft cake balls?? my wafers got chunky like chocolate does when it gets water in it–was that b/c i tried to add yellow food coloring to white chips? or b/c i microed it for too long? tried the shortening, but that didn’t help enough to dip (even assuming my balls were dipable, which they weren’t!) maybe try again next week. :) love the site!

i can’t get the candy coating on smoothly. plus the pen i have is not very good. where can i get a better one and how do i get the candy coating to go on smoother?

Bakerella, I just made my first batch of cake pops the cake was still gooey inside is this the way it is supposed to be? It looks like yours are flaky am I right?

You are SO creative and so generous for sharing this recipe and instructions! :)

HI!
Im 14 and i check up with yur blog every week
i love your creative mind! i wish it where mine!
i was just wondering could i bake a cake like a normal sponge because my family (who i bake for) don’t like cake mixes from boxes, so could i bake a sponge cake instead?
Thanks for sharing the creative-ness!

REE! This receipe is amazing! I’m so gonna use it for my mom’s b’day. But I’ll just crush some oreos and mix it with cream cheese. Than, I will put it inside a box full of yellow candy melts. Edible pens? I’ll try to search for it.. BUT! Tnx for the receipe! :)

ACK. I made these into jack o lanterns last week. They taste great but it was impossible to get the coating smooth like yours. I even added shortening which helped but then you could see the cake through the covering. Any suggestions? I was going to make turkeys for Thanksgiving but see you have beaten me to it. Thanks! Your website is amazing. I just started a cake business and make all edible decorations, your site is a true inspiration. creative-confections.net

Thanks!

Hey Bakerella,

I don´t know where I have been all this time that I just found you last night…..you have changed my life…..thanks.
The only thing is that I live in Brazil and down here we don´t have these icing cans to mix with the cake… what can I do? I have a 3 year old son and I am just crasy to prepare these cake pops for him and his friends….HELP ME OUT!!!!!
Love
Renata

Are you mixing the frosting with the cake?

I love this idea! It’s so cute! I finally have something to do with all my cake clippings.

just a bit of advice to some comments from above (Jenn)…the Wilton Candy Melts have not worked too well for me either and I am not a fan. I dont think they are meant for cakes balls haha but I buy melting wafers from a chocolate store in my neighborhood…they work perfectly and I get asked to bring them to every event in my town and school!

This is such a fun idea! Thank you for sharing. I may try these for some upcoming holiday events. Thanks for all the tips and tricks. I bet you get sick of people asking the same questions over and over. Read people – read!

my friend loves smiley faces :)

i luv those cakes

Hey! Your ideas are really creative and wonderful! I’m just wondering if i have to freeze the pops after i dip them in the candy melts. I tried twice, but the coating doesn’t seem to dry or harden.

omg, my son is asking for an emoticon theme for his 6th birthday and these are gonna be perfect! thank you a whole bunch, bakerella! mwah!

i”m making these for the first time later on toady. i was wondering if you had any tips and tricks for getting them to look “pretty”?

anything is helpful.
thanks.

they are so cute!

hi i really like your cake pops it so cute….can u recommend me a cake mix that is delicious to be use in making cake pops…..thanks…:)

Hi Bakerella! These cake pops look so cute and I can’t wait to make them. I have a couple questions though. If i’m using a chocolate cake mix, it’d be best to use chocolate frosting as well, right? If I can’t find yellow candy melts can i tint white ones yellow? And what could i use to draw the faces if I can’t find edible ink pens? Thanks so much :)

Oh yeah, sorry to bother you again but I read some comments about their cake balls cracking because they had frozen too long. How long do you normally freeze your cake balls?

hi! i’ve tried to make these a couple of times and when i keep them on the small side they work great. however, i’ve had some friends ask me for bigger cake pops (about the size of a mini cupcake – i get about 20 from a batch), and i’m experiencing two problems and i wanted to share in case you have any advice.

1. with the large ones, sometimes my chocolate gets horizontal hairline cracks in it as it cools around the pop…has that ever happened to you? any tricks to avoid this?

2. i’ve tried using peanut butter as the sticking agent instead of frosting and little drops of oil from the peanut butter sometimes seep through the chocolate…have you tried using peanut butter for any of your pops? has this happened to you too?

thank you so much in advance for your time and thank you for all your insights and great ideas! :)

- julie

Hi Bakerella! It`s extraordinary. I’m from Romania, and unfortunately we do not have many products, you could tell me please. The dough is how I make a crust for the cake? And what is frosting? Can you give me a recipe to see if account with something from us? And yellow candy melts are made from chocolate? Thanks in advance

I think I understand what is four you frosting, here in Romania its called cream. But wait to tell me what is this: box cake mix. Please, here is my email: sapaceanu.simona@yahoo.com

Hi there :) I think your cakepops are just adorable!!!

Just made the smiley cakepops with Teun, my stephson, for his birthdayparty tomorrow :)
Smileys are drying up now so we can draw the funny faces on, he just loves the eaten one ;)

We just had a little quarrel with the candy melts, they seemed to stay rather thick, so we have no smooth coating, but kind of wild hairy smileys :D

Hi there. Can’t wait to make these! I have a few frosting questions:

Do you have to use cream cheese frosting to mix with the cake?

If using store bought frosting, does the frosting consistency matter. The supermarket sells original, whipped, creamy and the craft store sells the really stiff icing. Thanks!

poopy!!!

The truth is, I hate this recipe.

It is soo complicated!

Please DONT try it.

I tested these with my children and they were NOT in the mood!

I made these last night for my son’s party at school. Here are 3 tips I discovered:

1. You need more than ONE bag of the chocolate candy to cover all the pops.
2. The trick to covering your pops is making sure they STAY cold. I ended up putting my pops back in the ‘frig about 1/2 through covering them. I also had to reheat the candy b/c it start to get thick and making it hard to cover the pops.
3. Don’t make them too big!!! Think “Blow Pop” size. I made the mistake of making my first ones WAY to big which made it more difficult to cover.

All in all, I will make them again. We’ll see how the kiddos like them!

What type/kind of/ brand edible ink/pen did you use? I got one from the craft store and it doesn’t write as well as yours at all. I just couldn’t get to write on the pops. Pls help.

I notice that a lot of your recipes for the bites are using red velvet or chocolate cake. If I want to use vanilla cake mix, would I still use cream cheese frosting or could I use just regular frosting?

So, my friends and i tried making these… and FAILED miserably lol. The cake balls came out perfect, firmed, and we were ready to dip them in the candy melts. But it was SO hard. does the melts have to be like water? We tried to get it as liquidy as we could without over heating.. how do you know when its perfect? and what brand of candy melts do you use?

thanks! :)

LOVE all of your ideas! I’ve made cake pops several times, and am actually making some today for my daughter to take to school in celebration of her 8th birthday. I wanted to know if you know why sometimes the outer shell cracks during the “drying” process? I usually drizzle a colored chocolate over the tops in an effort to hide the cracks, but would like to avoid the problem in the future if possible. Thanks!