My First Cake Pops!
Cake Pops were invented by Bakerella and come in all sorts of cute shapes and sizes. This is my first try at Cake Pops and they are fun to make. You can even ask your kids to play along too and decorate them for any occasion like birthday, baby shower or Wedding party. The process may be time consuming but the rewards are well worth the effort.
Ta..da!! Here are my first Cake Pops <3 I’ve decorated them into rosettes 🙂
Make the sponge cake first
2 Eggs
125g Optima flour
1/2 tbsp Cocoa powder – sifted
30g Water
35g Canola oil
- Put all the ingredients in mixing bowl except canola oil and beat high speed till thick and fluffy.
- Lower speed add 1 tsp vanilla extract and 1 tbsp chocolate paste, mix well and lastly add canola oil, mix well.
- Pour batter into a 11″ (lined) cake tray and bake at preheated oven 180C for about 10 mins.
- Leave cake to cool.
- Melt some semi sweet dark chocolate in a double boiler or microwave.
- Tear the sponge cake into pieces and put into mixing bowl, beat at medium speed until cake pieces crumbled (about few seconds).
- Lower speed, add in 2 tbsp melted semi sweet chocolate, 2 tbsp soft butter and 1 tbsp rum, mix well (about few seconds).
- Use your hand to knead the cake crumbs into a smooth dough and start rolling into small balls (makes 20) and place on a tray lined with foil.
- Dip the tip of your lollipop stick in a little of the melted chocolate and insert into the cake balls.
- Place them in the refrigerator till next day or if you want it quick, you can place them in the freezer for half hour or until you’re about to dip them.
- I used two colors of candy melts, pink and orange and semi sweet dark chocolate.
- Melt the candy melts in a deep glasses or bowls that are microwavable at 30 seconds intervals, stirring in between until candy melts become smooth.
- Carefully insert the cake ball into the candy/chocolate coating by holding the lolliop stick and rotating until covered.
- Once covered remove and softly tap and rotate until the excess chocolate falls off. Don’t tap too hard or the cake will fall off, too.
- To make rosettes, I double coated the cake ball. The coating must be a little thick.
- Using a scraper and gently scrape the coating upwards about half way from the bottom of the cake ball so the excess of the coating will falls into the bowl.
- Then holding the lollipop stick upright or slant it slightly and again gently scrape the side of the cake ball, rotating the lollipop stick as you scrape.
- When it is done, decorate with sprinkles on top.
- Place in a styrofoam block to dry.
- You can watch Bakerella’s original Cake Pop instructions here or the video below.
I’m submitting this post to International Incident Cake Pops Party hosted by Penny Jeroxie
Enjoy & have fun!
Here are tips and ideas by Bakeralla youtube video
Thank you everyone for your awesome compliments. Really hope all of you can spend sometimes to make this cake pops with your kids. Maybe for the coming Mother's day :))
Anncoo, you have the most colorful blog of all! You never fail to maze I have to say. I have tried many of your recipes and they came out really great! These cake pops are fabulous for a special party. I have this bookmarked already! You're the best! Cheers!!!
真的超级可爱到。。。到。。。。我忍不住想拥有它。。""姐姐,可以给妹妹一支蛋糕棒棒汤吗。。。。。。"""我很喜欢它的颜色哦。。。。真的好可爱很彩虹哦。。。。。我真的不会做哦。因为感觉蛮复杂的。。。但是真的好开心,因为鲜艳颜色带给人开心的感觉!
Oh! you got candy melts…. and love the treatment on the coating. very clever and pretty.
thanks for joining the party babe 🙂 And thanks for the birthday wishes.
Thank you Cornor 🙂 I love your creations very much, those are cute birdies 🙂
Ann, you are genius, your rose cake pop really pretty! I actually made it last night for my son's birthday goodie gift, but …. the round pop fell off … maybe I didn't refridge it overnite. At the end, my cake pop stand in the other way around … hahahahah …
They look so gorgeous!
Min ~ I've not buy that book yet. Will wait till the bookstore on 20% discount storewide 🙂
Biren ~ Thank you for your lovely comment.
Yummylittlecooks ~ Yes, I am going to make another batch for Mother's day too 🙂
Sandra ~ I'm sure you can make this too!
Ah Tze ~ You must try this, make a small portion like mine…is really fun
Shirley ~ Thanks! Already joined the giveaway.
LeQuan ~ Thank you! Might make another one for Mother's day.
Hanushi ~ I'm flattered by your compliment.
Zoe ~ This is very easy to make. Try starts with the simple design first.
My Asian Kitchen ~ Really? I must take a look 🙂
Your cake pops came out so pretty! I love the rosettes! I have yet to try and make these, I think all the frosting scares me 🙂
Very Cute! I agree with you, I think this would be adorable at a baby or bridal shower. Definitely need to give these a try although I doubt that mine would look as good as yours do 🙂
How long can the cake pop be stored?
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These are gorgeous! I've been wanting to make cake pops since I first saw them at Bakerella during the 12 weeks of Christmas Cookies, I still haven't got around to making them! I was really surprised to see them on the Starbucks menu recently!!
Hi Arthur, thank you very much for leaving your lovely comment. So glad that you've tried my recipes 🙂
hey this book was topping the amazon sales charts for a while. now after seeing ur post, makes me wanna get the book as well!
Beautiful! Very creative idea of making cakes. They are cute and small, people won't over-eat then, lol.
Cake pops are such good fun to make. Yours are really cute 🙂 Love the colours and wrappings
I don't like eating them though. It's a texture thing and the cake crumb with frosting mixed in is a little gritty – like pears – which turn me green.
Bet it would work really well with homemade fudge. I'll need to try that next time as an alternative
They look beautiful! We'd love to invite you to come on by and link it up, if you wish to THIS WEEK'S CRAVINGS "Easter Cookies & Treats"
http://momscrazycooking.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-weeks-cravings-linky-party-25.html
Thanks Cherrie 🙂
Good job. They are adorable.
Thanks Xiaolu 🙂
Thanks for the step by step clear instruction. may I know where did u buy the lollipop stick? I didnt see it in PH.
How did you form the crump into smooth balls?! Simply amazing!
BeeBee, you must try this and play with your kids…it is so fun 🙂
RavieNomNoms ~ Thank you for visiting and your lovely comment.
Penny ~ Thanks for the hosting.
Kelly ~ Thank you :))
Esther ~ Oh…got mold for cake pops? Must check it when I visit the store.
Claudia ~ Thanks!
温馨小屋 ~ 你一会做得很好 :))
Soooooo cute! ….. I bought a cupcake pop mould few weeks ago but till now still haven't open yet ;p
Ohhh these are amazingly CUTE!! You are very talented!! LOVE your blog! 🙂
Your cake pops are gorgeous! Great work. They are so much fun, aren't they?
i like making cake pops too and i think bakerella is a genius for inventing them!
you did an awesome job decorating them into rosettes … i never would have thought of that 🙂
-Abeer @ http://www.cakewhiz.com
your rosettes look so beautiful. well done for your first try
What a great job you did for your first time!
这个好!我要学~~
Liv Wan ~ Thank you very for the buzzing :))
小鲸~ 有空的时候,一定要试试看。你的家人一定会喜欢 :))
Cooking Rookie ~ I love your scone balls, look very pretty too!
Jane ~ You must make this for church party. They'll love it!
Lena ~ Whaa! RM6/each sounds quite expensive. We got it here around S1.80 not sure is the price same.
Thanks Sanjeeta. So nice to have your back here 🙂
DG ~ hahaa…so cute! I think must put the fridge because of the hot weather here lol!
Joelyn ~ 呵呵。。你也很可爱!当然可以啦!你要什么颜色,尽管拿!
这一点也不难做,只要花点时间,就可以了。 很希望你也试试看。
Wilde in the Kitchen ~ Thanks! I'm also scare about the frosting that's why I seldom frost my cupcakes but you can make a thin coating on cake pops 🙂
so pretty…cannot let my son see these
Have yet to try the cake pops..and you presented it in such a easy way that any first timer can make it perfectly! Lovely colors and gorgeous cake pops, Anccoo.
Awesome!!! Sooo cute!
Very nice! So admirable !
so pretty! another great idea for gifts too!my friend just had some recently in kl an dthey are selling at RM6/each.
How cute is that! I also made my first scone balls this week :-), only I never heard about candy melts until I saw your post, so I only dipped them in dark chcolate. Love your decoration idea!
My post is here, if you're curious:http://cookingrookie.blogspot.com/2011/04/chocolate-scone-balls.html
How pretty! I would love one!
Simply superb!
so cute!!!!
Love the presentation of this cake pops. It looks absolutely delicious.
太可爱了!!!!这个很精致呢:)
Like it Love it
Ann u r brilliant
Hi Ann, I don't have an 11" baking tray. What size can I use? Thanks!
Hi Ai Li, no problem to use any cake pan you have. After all you need to mash up the cake.
Hi Ann, I plan to make these for a party for a group of youths next Monday. I don't have an 11" baking tray so what size of tray can I use? Thanks!
Thank you! ? Wendy
Hi Ann besides Wilton Candy Melts what other brands chocolate and % can we use for cake pop? Many thanks. Wendy
Hi Wendy, You can use semi-sweet chocolate but they don't come in many colours like Candy Melts. Don't use high percentage chocolate, is bitter not suitable for kids.
WOW great cake pops these make my mouth full of water.I love to eat these.Pooh Baby Shower
These cake pops are looking so yummy and i wonder how you make this.Very nice creativity.
I love the beautiful vibrant colours on the blog…I like it.
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