Cake Popsicles

Delicious Cake-Pops!

So Matt and I got all domestic this weekend and decided to make cake popsicles. If you've never seen one of these before, you can find them at bakeries and now at Starbucks. However, much like black-bean burgers, there is no reason that you cannot make them yourself. To make these, you need a few things:

• Your favorite cake recipe/mix
• Your favorite icing (if you buy the cans of icing, one can per box of cake)
• Candy wafers (these are chocolate or vanilla, come in a variety of colors, melt in the microwave or over low heat, and are designed for use in candy making--you can find them in your baking supply or craft store)
• Popsicle sticks
• Something to stick the popsicles into while they harden (a bowl of sand or styrofoam will work)

Sooo squishy!

You start by baking the cake and letting it cool. Then the fun begins.

Break up the cake with your hands into a bowl, until it is completely crumbled. Then add the icing into the bowl with the cake crumbles and mix it all together with your hands, until it is a homogenous, squishy, cake-icing paste. Your fingers will taste delicious.


Once your cake-icing paste is done, roll it into balls about 1.5 inches across and set them onto wax paper. Matt and I let them sit in the freezer for a little bit at this point to firm up some (they were quite soft from all the hand mixing).

Melting some of the candy wafers, dip the tips of the popsicle sticks into the melted candy and then into the center of a cake ball, pushing it in about halfway. If you don't push it in enough, it will fall off later, but you don't want to go all the way through. At this point, we put them in the refrigerator and let them cool for a while--the cooler they are later the better the coating process works.

Gooey, gooey...

When we were ready to coat the cake popsicles, we melted up the rest of the candy wafers, thinning it out a bit with some shortening. A thinner melted candy is easier to work with and makes the final result look nicer. We carefully stuck the cake popsicle into the melted candy and rolled it around until it was completely coated. Don't do too much or you will end up with a drippy mess, but be sure to coat the whole thing in the melted candy. Let the excess drip back into the bowl, and then stick the popsicle into whatever you are using to hold them up (we used styrofoam). If you chilled your cake pops, the candy coating will harden in less than a minute.

Pretty lavender (actually, it's "orchid",
but Adam never listens to me... --Matt)

You can decorate the candy coating with sprinkles, nuts, or more melted candy in a contrasting color. For our cake popsicles, we made strawberry cake with pink icing and dipped them in a chocolate candy (we also used a lavender colored candy because we ran out of the chocolate). We then drizzled them with a contrasting color. The end result looked delicious and tasted delicious.

Let us know if you try it and what flavor-color combinations you tried!

Gratuitous picture of Matt...