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that is yummy for that red velvet. goood

-Bakerella,
Thanks so much! You have inspired me so much to start making cakes and ideas of my own!
Just a question, where I live, there are no lollipop sticks of any sort except for long pointed wooden ones. Do you think they’d work if I tried using them?
Thanks, Natalie

Your site is very helpful. I am making 400+cake pops for graduation. I have frozen the balls on a stick and i am ready to frost them. Can I frost them frozen, decorate them and then refreeze them? Thanks!

I find when making cakeballs that it’s much easier to use a heating pad under a metal bowl to melt the candy coating (a tip I got from Alton Brown). It takes some time for the candy melts to melt but I don’t have to worry about it cooling.

The heating pad plus a spoon and lollipop sticks makes the entire project easy (and not too messy).

I cant wait to make these but instead of red velvet im going to use french vanella and make red white and blue cake balls and use red and blue food coloring and use white chocoalte and red and blue food dye.

How long should you freeze them or cool them before you dip them into the choc? I made some and I had them in the freezer for maybe an hour but the cake seemed doughy. The ones I have are like a solid cake. I did cool the cake completely.
Thanks,
Debbie

I keep having a problem with my cake pops bursting. Have you ever encountered this? What am I doing wrong?

I love cake pops! This is a great idea! I love baking so I totally have to try this idea some time soon.

I want to make these for a party, has anyone tried this recipe, and can they tell me how many balls it makes?

Do u put the sticks in before or after you chill??!

Hi Bakerella!
I like a lot your page. I live in Ecuador and here the weather is hot. Can you recomend me what can I mix whith cake instead of cream. buttercream or cheese, to make my cake pops? Thank you.

WAY too messy. They did not even come close to forming balls, it was way to creamy and just fell apart. It was so runny! Use less frosting to start!

Hey everyone– What brand of chocolate are you using?

I’ve used Baker’s white chocolate baking bar
AND
Ghirardelli white chocolate baking bar.

What kind of chocolate are you using and what forms and stays hard the best?

I love all of your recipes!
I tried the red velvet cake balls and they were
D-E-L-I-C-O-U-S!
Please reply back-
-Aaliyah

hi there, i ws wondering if i can substitute the candy melt with cooking chocolate. cause there’s not such thing as candy melt here. or what do u suggest?

I’m all about Red Velvet Cake, so I’ll have to try these w/ the classic (authentic) butter roux frosting :) Great find!

in which chocolate do they tatse better. white or milk

Cute!

I’m a big fan of yours outside the US… so I wanted to know if you have some recipe to make the red velvet cake from scratch because they don’t sell the red velvet cake mix here and I really wanna make this!… Thanks! XO!

This is not even cool

Omg I don’t know what i rather do make out with Alex or eat a cake ball

Cute

cool

Can I use melted Ghirardelli milk chocolate and white chocolate chips to dip the cake balls in? I couldn’t find bark anywhere. I really want to make these!

these are amazing I could eat em all day……..yum

i made these yesterday, except with butter pecan cake and vanilla frosting…(didnt have anything else) and my whole family loved them!! i thought it would b way to much but they were gone the first day!! thanks so much…. i LOVE your blog

hey, why does the stick slide of the cake pop?

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hi, i want to make these velvet balls for my son bithaday party . can you pls tell what is the name of the cream cheese that you use?

thank`s josianne from malta

Can you use semi sweet choclate chips instead of chocolate bark?

How did the color get so red? I did red velvet cake balls and used cream cheese frosting and it’s so deep it almost looks black.

Making these now! Thank you! I’m using the freezer since i need then done by 4 for a potluck, how long in the freezer do you leave yours? Thanks!!

i’ve try the cup cakes & really nice. i love it
thanks for the recipe.

i didn’t know it was that easy!

Hi! I haven’t had the chance to read through all the posts/comments so I’m sorry if this is repetitive. I’d like to make cake pops for a baby shower this Saturday (8/18) & would like to make them in advance. Questions:

1. How far in advance can I make the cake balls itself (just the balls UNDECORATED)? Do I store it in the fridge or freezer? How long do they need to be in room temperature before dipping & decorating?

2. If dipped in the coating & decorated with the whole nine yards, how far in advance can I make it? Should I leave them on the counter to thaw out overnight before serving on Saturday?

Please help & thank You,
Troy43

How did you make the criss-cross patterns on the balls?

Can you freeze these to give as gifts at a later date?

woah!!i get excited just logging into your blog!! i submitted my email subscripion today ( just a ffew minutes ago, really) after stumbling into your site purely by accident! can’t wait to explore your site…can’t wait for emails from you! thanks!!!you’ve got the greatest baking blog!!

Me and my mom are making them today ! Can’t wait to try them !

I’m in the process of making these and not feeling too confident. I’m testing the recipe out for my daughter’s birthday party next weekend, so I’m using strawberry cake mix instead of red velvet; everything else is the same. But, pre-chilling, they are really goopy and look like a mixture of strawberry cake batter and uncooked meatloaf…gag. Crossing my fingers the outcome is better because I have zero backup ideas for party favors!

I’ve made these cake balls and pops more than a handful of times and I think i’ve finally perfected the recipe! I’m a college student, so with minimal time on my hands I break the steps up, heres how i do it!

A day or two before I need to present the balls at a party or social I begin the process.
First I buy a box of cake from the local grocery store. Bake it following the directions on the box. After, let the cake cool and begin breaking it up.
To save up some dishes I usually just start adding a can of frosting right into the pan after it’s all broken up.
Then I begin mixing the frosting and cake together. The frosting is really meant to help hold the cake crumbles together to form the size ball you want.
I usually get around 30 pretty big cake balls out of one cake box. A lot right? I lay all the balls out on a cookie sheet and pop them in the freezer overnight or for at least a few hours.
(They never fully freeze, even if you keep them in there for days! So you can really prepare the balls at any time in advance.)
Once the balls have chilled I let them rest out on the counter for around twenty to thirty minutes as I get my chocolate out and ready. Once they have become less chilled, I dip them in the chocolate. You want them to still be cold so the chocolate hardens on them, but you don’t want them so cold that the rest of the chocolate in the bowl gets clumpy.
Once you’ve got the desired look you can pop them back in the fridge and even serve them cold! It’s like a delicious cake popsicle. Try varying the cake types, like fun fetti, and chocolate, they’re always scrumptious!

If you’re wanting to make the into cake pops, once you’ve formed your cake balls let them chill in the fridge for about an hour and then put the stick straight through until you think you’ve reached about the middle of the cake ball and let them chill for a few more hours in the fridge or freezer!

Bakerella,
If I used the cake pop pan from Nordic Ware, would I use the same directions as listed above?

Thank you.

Hi. Im so glad to meet u. Im new in cakepops and I want to ask you how I mantain the cakepops fresh outside the freezer and how the chocolate that covers the cake gets hard? Please I need help… Thanks a lot

I love cake pops… And the way that you don’t have to buy the little cake pop machine it’s so wonderful… I’ll try to make them for my kids halloween party… Thank you very much for sharing you knoledgment =)

Love this idea, trying my very first ones today, got them chilling overnight in the fridge , had a full day of baking.. Now just relaxing checking out more funky ideas from Bakerella.

I’m making these little beauties NOW !! So excited !!! Thx for sharing !!!

Hi Bakerella, I made my for set of cake pops. Looked good but later cracked. White candy melts were used. Some comments I have seen has said not to put balls in freezer before dipping. Does that matter or do I need to get balls to room temp first.

Hi Bakerella,

Trying these for the first time as eyball cakepops for a Halloween fundraiser bake sale – ekk!. I can’t seem to find the regular cream cheese frosting (the kind you find by the cake mixes), only the whipped. Is it okay to use the whipped kind?

Thank you so much! :D

Hey so I made these last year for the Twilight Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 midnight showing gathering we do and everyone loved them. I just never posted (I don’t know why) but they were amazing. Though I did have some issues with the chocolate melting part. I am trying to figure out a better way than what I ended up doing (I melted chocolate chips a small batch at a time) without burning my hands as badly either.

My question: When you drop the ball in the chocolate and then ‘spoon’ chocolate on top about how deep is the chocolate when you do this? I’m thinking to ask now because my group has very kindly asked me to make them again for Pt. 2. Also side note I didn’t use a box or can mix I made a red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting from scratch (more work but I don’t like the box mixes as much). Any help would be much appreciated by my poor fingers.

making these for my mom because she loves red velvet and give them to her on chrismas thx!!!

Hello,

I am planning on making these for the first time for a baby “sprinkle” this Saturday. I’ve seen in the comments that it is ok to make them ahead of time. Since this is my first time, I want to make sure there is enough time to make more in case I mess them up. :) One question – I was thinking of making the cake and rolling them all tonight and then dipping them all tomorrow night. Is it ok to chill them in the refrigerator for 24 hours – rolled but undipped?

Thank you!

These are absolutely delicious!!!! I know you posted this in 2007 but I just recently made these and my whole household loved them!!! Will definitely be making these regularly! But not too regularly hahah :D

OMG thank you for sharing this with us! I am planning to make them for my students and I can not wait to go home and try this out! They look so good that I am drooling.

I will post my results up on my website http://www.lifeofmichelleho.com

Thanks!
Michelle Ho

Loving this recipe!
If I wanted to put in cake pop sticks, how would I go about it? :)

Cheers
Mel :) x

I’ll try this one! :))))

What if ýØù don’t have any candy melts in your country what else can ýØù use

I loathe red velvet cake, can I make these with any cake flavor?

Five copies of Holiday Cake Pops. Grand daughters and daughter in laws.

Instead of cream cheese would I be able to use mascarpone or ricotta? If so, would mascarpone or ricotta be best? Thank you.

I made these yummy babies for my husbands office potluck party and got an amazing response..my husband couldn’t stop taking abt how everybody njoyed them and how they all praised me..all thanks to u:)

Hey!
Thanks for the idea! I’m going to try it. But does it make any difference if I buy packaged cream cheese instead of canned?
I will greatly appreciate the help

-Karla

I started making these over a year ago from this website. they turned out great! everyone loves them. it’s so time consuming tho so I only make them during special occasions when I’m not too busy, such as the Christmas season. I’m so glad I found this. I just wish I could make them more often, but I guess not because then I’ll start gaining weight. oh dessert, why do you have to be so good, yet so bad? lol

Hi There, love the recipe idea, however, I am from South Africa and we do not get Red Velvet Cake mix or Cream Cheese Frosting here. Can u reccommend a good recipe?

Thank u

How long do you freeze the cake balls for after you mix with the cream cheese? Thanks!

Can anything else be used instead of Chocolate Bark?

How many hours should I let them chill in the freezer? pls reply!

that’s why your cake balls cracked because u froze them. they should only be chilled b4 dipping in chocolate. if completely froze they will expand once thawed and crack the icing. it happened to me b4.

I’m a HIT in the office for Valentine’s Day! :)
I only used 1/2 can of frosting because I thought the full can would be too much.
The frozen cake balls started to sweat which I think caused my dipping chocolate not to set all the way. I will try just the fridge cooling method next time.
The drizzle of chocolate, white chocolate, or sprinkles will help with the presentation of the ones where the chocolate isn’t as smooth. :)

I made these and loved them! I used about half the can of cream cheese frosting, and for half the batch I just melted semi-sweet chocolate chips and used that instead of the chocolate bark. The semi-sweet chocolate dip worked fine, though it wasn’t as smooth or pretty as the chocolate bark dip and stuck on a little bit thicker (not a serious problem for me, however:)

Beautiful sweet!!! It’s also a crafty idea! I will try to do them myself!

Nina di http://fragolaecannella.blogspot.it/

I wanted to know how to make them design on these . Thanks