How To Make Cake Pop Batter Less Sticky

Hi all… I can’t believe this week has flown by and now it’s almost 5pm on Thursday night and I have not put together a post for tonight. YIKES!!

I’ve been busy most of my days and my evenings have beencompletelytaken over by the Online BlogCon Group on FB. The ladies participating are wonderful. Everyone has been so helpful and I’ve learned some new things. There have been a lot of fun giveaways and sure do hope I win something 🙂

Today, I’m going to share some of my Cake Pop tips with you (because, I know ya’ll don’t live near me and you’re totally jealous that you can’t participate in the class with me).

How To Make Cake Pops (easy And Fool Proof)

TIP 1. Have ALL your decorations ready to go. Get the sprinkles and candy ready to go. Make sure you have enough of everything and get them set up and ready to attach.

TIP 2. Have the right TOOLS. One of my favorite tools is an offset tweezers. These are great for picking up smallpiecesof candy and adding them to the cake pop without getting your fingers into it.

TIP 3. I like to use a COLD cake and COLD frosting to make my cake balls. One of the questions I get asked the most is “How do you get your cake pops so round?” I think that using cold cake and frosting and mixing it in my Kitchen Aid with a paddleattachment is the key to making good cake pop batter. Using cake and frosting that is already cold allows me to not have torefrigeratethem very long.

Red Velvet Cake Balls

Tip 4. Proper amount of Frosting to Cake Ratio. I’m sorry, but there is NO secret measurement. I hate telling people to use X amount of frosting. The frosting is a binder and the binder isdependanton how moist your cake is. Most box cake mixes are very, very moist – especiallychocolate. If you use less oil orsubstituteit with applesauce, your cakes moisture will be different. I know Cake Poppers who roll ONLY warm cake because of the moisture in the cakes.

The best advice I can give you is to mix with a mixer and judge the moisture by the residue on your hands when you roll the pops. I rolled 3 dozen cake pops in the picture below and my hands were clean!

Yes, I’ll have some red residue after rolling Red Velvet cake pops and some brown after rolling chocolate cake pops, but my hands are not sticky and coated with frosting. If yours are, you’ve used too much frosting. Go back and add more cake.

Healthy Cake Pops (no Bake, Oil Free, Vegan)

Tip 5. Start of small! If this is your first time making cake pops, start with 1/4 of your cake and a tablespoon of frosting. You should get 12 cake pops. If you need to adjust your cake to frosting ratio, you have leftover cake and extra frosting so if you play around, you can.

TIP 6. Use a Cookie Scoop to measure cake pops equally each time. I Love my Norpro Cookie Scoop. It is all metal and easy to clean. I’ve had no problems with it. I find that if I use my Norpro Cookie scoop my cake pops are are the same size and they are already 75% rolled.

You’re better off using realStyrofoamif you are going to just make pops once or twice. I’ve even just used a juice cup to hold my cake pops. If you don’t have either, make “candy apple style” cake pops.

How To Make Cake Pops Dough With And Without Icing

My suggestion is to invest in cake pop stand. You can make your own a few different ways, but if you or your husband isn’t good with tools, order a niceCake Pop Stand by KC Bakesor find a seller on Etsy.com

I hope I have answers some of your questions. Please let me know if you have any trouble making your cake pop batter and rolling your cake balls.

Good to know you had a busy and productive week. Those cake tops are so cute and yummy. Thanks for the tips.

How To Make Cake Pops With Cake Mix

These are wonderful tips Karyn. I only tried making cake pops once and it was a disaster! I will now try them again :) Thanks so much for linking up to Creative Thursday. Can’t wait to see what you share this week! Have a wonderful week.Michelle

These are awesome treats for the Spooks! Have a fabulous weekend and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.Come Back Soon!Miz HelenThe first time I made cake pops, I was pretty convinced that I would never make them again. It seemed to take forever. There are so many steps. To make matters worse, I was making peppermint chocolate cake pops, so after I dipped each one in white chocolate, I waited 30 seconds for it to set before rolling it in crushed candy canes. That added a lot more time than I’d anticipated.

However, if you read this blog regularly, you know that I have actually made cake pops several times since my first attempt. They turned out to be so delicious and popular that I couldn’t help but try making them again. Each time, I discovered a new way to make it easier.

Vanilla Cake Pops Recipe

I’ve had a lot of people ask me how I make cake pops, especially without a cake pop maker. I’m not a huge believer in unitasker kitchen appliances, plus a cake pop maker just shapes cake into balls. In my opinion, a true cake pop is cake and frosting combined into a fudgy, moist truffle. I’m not sure that Bakerella (the creator of cake pops) would want it any other way.

Odds are, you have at least one or more of these tools in your kitchen already. Put them to use and make some cake pops more easily!

(Need some recipe inspiration? I’ve also made snowmen cake pops, heart shaped cake pops, salted caramel cake pops, cheesecake pops and whoopie pie pops. Plus, I’ll be posting a St. Patrick’s Day inspired cake pop (the one pictured below) in a few days!)

Keto Cake Batter Truffles

The Little Dipper is a tiny Crock-Pot often used for dips and sauces. It only has 1 setting, warm, and it’s perfect for melting chocolate or candy melts to coat cake pops. I don’t own a microwave, so I usually melt chocolate in a double boiler on the stove top. This sometimes makes the chocolate or candy melts too hot, which makes the cake pops fall apart when dipped. Even if you have a microwave, the Little Dipper will melt the coating for you with no effort and to the perfect temperature.

It will take around 15-20 minutes to melt. You can stir occasionally or wait until the end to stir. Don’t leave it plugged in if you’re not going to be dipping the pops right away though – it might start burning around the edges.

Usually when people make shaped cake pops, they shape them each individually by hand. It’s daunting enough to roll round cake pops by hand, and making each into a shape seems even worse. So when I made heart shaped cake pops, I found an easier way: push the cake pop dough into a wide, shallow baking dish and use a cookie cutter to cut out the shapes. Easy peasy!

Cake Pops 101: Troubleshooting Guide

I thought everyone knew this one, until I saw someone at a bakery using a cheese grater to break up the cake. Seriously?! You can also use your hands to break up the cake, but it’s so much easier and faster to crumble a cake by putting in a food processor. I know that not everyone owns a food processor, so I tried out this method in my blender too. It works almost as well, you just have to use smaller pieces of cake at a time. There’s no easier way to break up a cake into even crumbs with no chunks.

I use this medium cookie scoop to make evenly sized cake pops. It’s pretty easy: scoop up the cake pop batter, push off the excess with your finger, and release onto your clean, slightly moistened hands (making your hands a little wet prevents the cake from sticking). Then roll it into a ball. Done!

I saw this idea on Pinterest. Can’t find any styrofoam? Use a colander! Only some of the holes on mine fit the lollipop sticks, but it was a great solution for letting the cake pops dry. I bought some styrofoam at Michael’s (and felt a little silly paying money for something you can get for free) and it was immediately covered in sprinkles and flecks of melted chocolate. This can be easily cleaned if that happens and you probably already have one in your kitchen cabinet.Seriously. We’ve all burned the heck out of our chocolate, lost a cake ball off the stick, had our beautiful cake pops crack 5 minutes later,  or had them leak weird stuff everywhere! It’s sooo frustrating!

The Best Red Velvet Cake Balls

I look back on my first cake pops (if I’m even allowed to call them that) and they are sad. See the picture at the end of this as proof. Let’s just say, practice makes perfect and now I’m obsessed with cake pops. I think