How to Make Cake Pops - Easy Recipe | Wilton

Hey guys, it's Desiree. Today I'm going to show you how to make cake pops. Now this is one of our most searched recipes on wilton.com and there's so many different things you can do with cake pops. Lots of different flavors, colors, and decorating ideas out there but first you have to start with your cake. So I'm going to show you real quickly how to go through our recipe. You're going to start off with just a regular box of cake mix. So I already have that open and sitting in my bowl and we're going to doctor this up a little bit. It's a little different from the instructions you'd find on the back of the box so make sure that you follow the recipe that we've posted down below. One of the things we're going to add is a packet of instant pudding mix. This is going to help the cake be more dense which is going to help the cake pop hold it better when you're shaping them into a ball. Next I'm going to add four eggs. Finally we're going to add a third cup of vegetable oil and one cup of water and then you're going to stir this all together. Once your cake mix is ready you can pour this into two eight inch round pans or a 13 by 9 sheet pan. It really doesn't matter because we're just going to crumble this up anyway and I already baked a cake earlier. I used a sheet cake and I just dumped it in this bowl. The recipe actually calls for half this amount of cake so I'm just going to pick up that half and set it aside for later use. You could put this in an airtight container and store it in the freezer for about four to six weeks. Now I'm going to take half a cup of buttercream icing and add this to my cake. Now it's time to get messy. You're Now we're ready to get rolling and make some cake pops. You can make these in three different sizes. It just really depends on how big you want your cake pops to be but I'm going to measure these out by the tablespoon. So we'll start off just doing basic one tablespoon and then one tip for when you're shaping these. I got this from our decorating room when I was chatting with them the other day. Cup your hands as you roll this and that'll help it keep more of a ball shape. This is about your standard size cake pop. It was about a tablespoon. You can make these any size you want but if you're making a whole bunch you're going to want them to be relatively the same size. So it is helpful to measure these out by the tablespoon. So I'm going to do one that's two tablespoons worth. Now we're going for this mega cake pop which is going to have three tablespoons. Now we're going to prepare our cake pops so that they're ready to be dipped. I'm going to first take a lollipop stick and just kind of carve out in the center of one of your pops a little opening. That'll do. Don't go too far into the cake pop. Take a little bit of candy on the end of your stick and put that in the middle. Another thing you could do is put a little bit of candy melts into a decorating bag. Cut the very end of the tip off and then use that to fill the holes in your cake pops. I'm going to put these in the refrigerator for just five minutes. It's going to help the candy completely firm up and also help the cake pop become a bit more condensed. You don't want to leave these in the fridge for more than five minutes because when you bring them back out as they start to come to room temperature the cake pop is going to expand and when that happens you risk cracking your candy if they've become too cold and then start to become too warm. While the cake pops are chilling I'm going to make sure my candy melts are the right consistency for dipping. If we take a look at this you can see they're pretty thick so I'm going to thin them out just a little bit using this Easy Thin. It makes things a lot easier and remember to just add a little bit of this at a time because if you make your candy melts too thin you're going to have issues with your cake pop being coated correctly. We get a lot of questions about where can I find Easy Thin. We'll leave a link down below for you or you can also check your local craft store. If you're not able to get your hands on some Easy Thin you could use vegetable shortening that would work. Again just make sure you're doing a little bit at a time because once you get it too thin it's difficult to come back from that. People have also asked if they can use vegetable oil. You could but it is harder to control since it is a liquid. I definitely recommend using vegetable shortening. I'm going to take my cake pop and get the spatula out of the way and I like to tilt this so that it's a little deeper. I'm just going to take my cake pop make sure it's good and coated. There we go and then let some of the excess drip off of your pop and then I'm going to place this in a pop stand. Stick end down because if I let this sit back on the parchment with that candy it's going to pool around the base of my cake pop and it's not going to have that nice ball shape. Once you're feeling pretty comfortable with the basic color dipping you can move on to more fancy things like doing multi-colors or designs. So I'm going to show you a cool marble technique that you can use and I'm going to start off by actually coloring this white candy melts here. I'm just going to put a little bit into these bowls. I'm going to use our candy colors to change these up a bit. It's very important that you use the candy colors because if you use our regular icing colors they're water-based and they're going to cause your candy melts to seize and then they'll be no good. You can see already that that little dab goes a long way. I'm going to pour each of these into a decorating bag because I want to get a nice fine line when I'm drizzling this over my white candy. Just cut the very end off and then drizzle across the white. Do the same thing with the blue and go the opposite direction this time. Okay now we're going to try our marbling technique and there you have it. I love the marble effect these have. You can use any color combination you want. Nice way to add a subtle pop of color. Go ahead and leave me a question below if you have it or share with me some of your ideas or things you'd like to see for cake pops or any other sweet treat. Subscribe to our channel so you don't miss any of the latest videos and if you enjoyed this one give it a thumbs up. I'm Desiree, thanks for watching.