CAKE POPS (Fast & Easy)

[Music] hey everyone in today's video i'm going to be showing you how to make cake pops i love these little treats they're such a great addition to any dessert table and they're a hit with everybody so what you'll need today are some cake pop sticks which you can find at any craft store like michael's in the baking section a cake mix that you want to use some canned frosting from the store and your candy melts in the colors that you'd like so what you want to do is just bake your cake as normal follow the directions on the back of the box so here i'm just adding my cake mix and i'm following the directions exactly so adding my eggs and i'm going to be adding my oil my water and then we're just going to mix this up for a couple minutes [Music] and once it's done i'm going to put it in the oven your cake has cooled down completely you can cut it into pieces i just do this make it easier to put it into my bowl some people like to cut the edges off and keep just sort of the inside of the cake uh nothing of the crispy part on the outside to me to be honest i don't like to waste cake so i just put it all in there and use it all up it really won't make a difference in you know the flavor or anything some people just prefer when you bite into it that you don't see those dark pieces so what you want to do is just crumble up all the cake with your hands so i'm just going through and just running it through my fingers and just want to make it nice and crumbly and try to make it as even as possible and all the same size so once you have all the crumbs nice and small and all around the same size we want to add a little bit of our canned frosting so i usually do like a tablespoon and a half or so you can always add more if you need to so if you want to add less to begin with that's totally fine what we want the frosting to do is to make it a little bit more doughy and for the crumbs to start sticking together and you can see it slowly comes together and starts making a little bit of a ball so i grab a little bit of dough and i squeeze it between my hands to make it nice and smooth and then i want to roll it between the palms of my hands to make the most perfect ball i can [Music] so once you have all your balls rolled out we're going to go ahead and melt our candy melts and what you want to do is be very careful when you're melting these so i want to stick them in the microwave for you know 10 to 20 seconds when i'm first starting out and do them in increments they may not look like they're melting at first you can see i'm mixing it up but it doesn't look like they're melted but make sure you give it a good stir before you put it back for the second and the third time every time you take it out of the microwave you want to give it a good stir the bowl is going to get hot in certain spots especially you know on the edges and so those candy melts that are along the edges are going to melt and you don't want them to get hotter and hotter in the microwave so that's why we're trying to mix as much as possible to distribute the heat there and cool them down before we go back and make sure that they're all set the same temperature before we put them back in the microwave to melt again you can see slowly they're starting to melt you can still see the the form of the chips of the the candy melts there but you can see that they're starting to get going and once i get about half melted you know it's a lot liquidy more liquidy now there's still chunks in there i'm gonna mix as much as possible because i'm almost there so the heat of the candy that's already melted can melt the rest of those little pieces if you do need to stick it in the microwave again because it's not fully melted at this point you want to decrease your increments in about 5 to 10 seconds it's always better to do less than more and make sure that you give these a really good stir you can see it's almost completely smooth now i started out with a lot of chunks i have just a few left so i'm going to be throwing that back into the microwave just for a few seconds just to get those last few chunks melted and we should be good to go so now that we have the right consistency and it's all smooth i'm going to go ahead and dip my sticks into the candy melts and then put them straight into the balls i like to do mine upside down like this i used to always do them the other way but it was really hard not only to when you dip them to have them upright and them and stop them from dripping and not getting the perfect circle but when i took them somewhere or put them on a dessert table they were really top heavy and so even if i had them in jars or something else they always seem to topple over it was so hard to transport so now whenever i make cake pops i always make them upside down because it's so much easier not only to do them but when you're presenting them on a table they look so much better and it's so easy to place them on the table however you'd like and you don't have to really worry about them falling over or if someone takes a few out of the jar that it goes on one tips over on one side so i'm going to do a couple colors here so i did my pink ones now i'm doing the same ones with the green after you poke all the sticks into the cake pops you want to let this dry for a little while so you know give it at least 15 minutes you want to make sure that it's nice and hard so that the sticks stay in the cake pops [Music] normally by the time i finish putting all the sticks into my cake pops the first ones have already dried [Music] okay so now to dip our cake pops dip straight down into the bowl and if you have to turn the stick you know to the sides a little bit just to get the full coverage on top you can do that and then you lift straight up for a couple of seconds and then we're going to just place them on some parchment paper when you place them like this it'll dry flat on the bottom so they won't topple over anything and while they're wet i'm going to add some sprinkles on them just to give them a little extra special look here you want to be really gentle with them you don't want to dip them and start turning them in there and you know mixing them in there and trying to get coverage they fall off the sticks quite easy so if your ball is too big you know that's one maybe one reason why they're falling off if you're doing too much movement within the candy melts they're thicker candy melts it's just a little bit of cake held together with a touch of candy melts inside so you don't want to move them around too much so the deeper the cup you know sometimes even you do it in a tall glass so you can just dip them straight down and pick them straight up and place them on your parchment paper [Music] so i'm going to do another little design here so i've got some white candy melt that i melted and i put it in a pastry bag and i'm just gonna go back and forth here on the surface of my pink candy melts and again i'm gonna dip straight down and i'm going to tilt my stick a little bit just to get full coverage on top and as i pull straight up i'm going to turn my cake pop ever so slightly and you're going to get a nice marbled look out of that i love this look you can do it with any color it looks really cool and fancy and what you want to do is just keep adding um white drizzle on top if you're running out if you see that space in the middle there's not enough drizzle and you want to dip where you see the drizzle so if you need more just go ahead and add more [Music] if you find that your candy melts are starting to harden a little bit or they're not getting as smooth i have a few here the video is taking a little bit longer than normal so they're starting to dry on me very fast you can always pop them back into the microwave for a few seconds just to get them nice and smooth the longer it sits on your counter they will harden eventually and so if you find that you're working a little bit slower and they're not as smooth as they were you can just go ahead and melt them and again only for you know five to seven seconds at a time because they're already melting you do not want them to get too hot and just remember if you're adding any kind of sprinkles or anything you want to do it right away when the candy melts are still somewhat wet so the sprinkles adhere onto them and there you have it you've got these beautiful cake pots fit for any occasion any dessert table that'll be a hit with anyone i promise [Music] i hope you enjoyed the video but thank you so much for watching and as always happy baking [Music] you

Channel: Little Cookie Co

Views: 188,791

Keywords: cake pops, how to make cake pop, marbled cake pops, dipping cake pops, candy melts

Id: YP0nvg7uxU0

Length: 10min 21sec (621 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 21 2021