Description
Chocolate cake pops offer a delightful twist on classic desserts that bring joy to parties and gatherings. Sweet spheres of moist cake coated in smooth chocolate provide a perfect handheld treat for all who enjoy compact, indulgent sweets.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 box cake mix (any flavor)
- 2 cups (16 oz/454 g) chocolate or candy melts (any color)
- 3 eggs
- ⅓ cup (80 ml) vegetable oil
- 1 cup (240 ml) water
- ½ cup (125 g) frosting (store-bought or homemade)
- Cake pop sticks
- Sprinkles or decorations (optional)
Instructions
- Cake Crumbling: Disintegrate the cooled cake into fine, uniform crumbs within a spacious mixing bowl, ensuring no large fragments remain.
- Mixture Preparation: Blend frosting into the cake crumbs, kneading thoroughly until the mixture becomes malleable and holds its shape when compressed, creating a consistent dough-like consistency.
- Sphere Formation: Mold uniform cake balls by rolling small portions between your palms, crafting compact, symmetrical spheres with smooth surfaces.
- Chilling Phase: Arrange the formed cake spheres on a parchment-lined tray and refrigerate for 30 minutes to solidify their structure and enhance handling stability.
- Chocolate Coating Preparation: Melt chocolate using a double boiler or microwave, incorporating a small amount of vegetable oil to achieve a silky, pourable consistency with optimal shine.
- Stick Insertion: Dip lollipop stick tips into melted chocolate before carefully embedding them halfway through the chilled cake spheres, creating a secure anchor.
- Coating and Decorating: Immerse each cake pop into the liquid chocolate, ensuring complete coverage, then gently tap to remove excess. Immediately embellish with sprinkles or edible glitter while the coating remains wet.
- Setting Process: Position the decorated cake pops vertically in a foam block or specialized stand, allowing them to set and solidify at ambient temperature until the chocolate hardens completely.
Notes
- Crumb Consistency Control: Break cake into fine, even crumbs to ensure smooth texture and easy binding with frosting, avoiding large chunks that disrupt cake pop structure.
- Frosting Balance Technique: Add frosting incrementally and mix thoroughly, stopping when mixture holds shape without being too wet or dry – the perfect consistency prevents crumbling or falling apart.
- Chill for Stability: Refrigerate cake balls before dipping to firm up mixture, making chocolate coating process smoother and preventing potential disintegration during decoration.
- Chocolate Coating Pro Tip: Maintain chocolate at ideal melting temperature (around 90°F) and use thin consistency by adding slight vegetable oil to achieve glossy, smooth coverage without clumping.
- Prep Time: 45 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 21
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 200mg
- Fat: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 30mg