How To Make Cake Pops Valentines

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, meaning love is in the air and your cake pops. Make a batch of these cuties and gift to your sweet-toothed sweetheart.

Mash up a baked cake (you can use any recipe you love) and combine with buttercream. For every 2 cups of cake, use 1 tablespoon buttercream. Adjust this ratio as needed until you have a doughy consistency.

Melt the red candy melts into a small bowl. Dip one tip of a lollipop stick into the candy melts and push it into the bottom of your heart. Repeat for every cake pop and place them in the freezer for 5-10 minutes.

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Once chilled, remove the cake pops from the freezer and let them sit for a few minutes. Dip each one into the candy melts, allowing any excess to drip off, then place in a styrofoam block or cake pop stand to dry. Try to make this candy base smooth for decorating.

Roll out white fondant with the rolling pin and ⅛” guide rings. Use the round piping tip #12 to cut out four circles. Then roll out black fondant in the same way, and use the round piping tip #7 to cut out four circles.

Pro Tip: To make it seem like your cake pops are looking at each other (and totally falling in love), glue the pupils of each pair on opposite sides of the white circles.

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Dip a toothpick in white soft gel paste and dab it onto the edges of the black circles to give your eyes a bit of life.

Roll out light blue fondant with the rolling pin and wooden dowels as guides. Cut out two circles with the bottom of piping tip #7. Shape the circles into ovals and pinch the centers inward. Then pinch the four corners to begin molding the bows.

Use the knife tool to indent a vertical line across the center of each bow. With the tip of the knife tool, make small indentations to form creases at the center of the bow on each side of the vertical line.

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Once the dipped cake pops are dry, use the black edible marker to draw on smiles, eyebrows and eyelashes — whatever you want to punch up the personality.

If your excess candy melts have hardened, heat them to re-melt. With a toothpick, use a small amount of candy melts to secure the eyes and bows in place. Then you’re done!These Valentine Cake Pops taste amazing and will be a mega-hit with everyone in the family! Make these festive & easy cake pops for your family, party, or school event this Valentine’s Day.

I don’t know about you, but when my husband walks into a Starbucks, he just can’t help but buy a cake pop for everyone in our family. They’re sooooo good!

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After doing that a few times, I knew it was time to start making cake pops myself – or we’ll blow our annual Starbucks budget by Valentine’s Day!

I am thrilled to say that cake pops are even easier to make than I thought! And you don’t need to buy a separate mold as you do for hot chocolate bombs, coffee bombs, or cappuccino bombs. Woohoo!

Today’s easy cake pop recipe is a recipe that you can make any time of the year and adjust the colors/decorations to fit the time of year when you make them. They may be Valentine cake pops today, but tomorrow they could easily be Halloween cake pops!

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And, if I do say so myself, even Cupid himself couldn’t even make anything taste better than these delicious easy cake pops!

Plus, these little bites of lovestruck goodness will make you the hero of the day. So what are you waiting for? Keep reading to learn how to make Valentine Cake Pops that will put smiles on the faces of everyone who tries them!

More Valentine’s Day fun! Grab these free Valentine’s Bingo printables and other activities that will have kids laughing and having a great time! Click the image below.

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While your cake pops are in the freezer, place all of your candy melts in a medium-sized bowl. Microwave for 30-second intervals until completely melted.

Place your cookie stick in the candy melt, then the cake pop. Then add your cake pop to the candy melts. Coat the pop completely with the melt.

On the side of the bowl, tap it gently with the stick removing any excess chocolate from the cake pop to create a smooth finish.

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If you love cake pops (and who doesn’t?), you’ll love making this cake pop recipe. Here are the answers to all your burning questions about making cake pops!

You can easily make these into balls that are uniform with a cookie scoop, and it’s SO easy! Note – you can do it by hand too, but they are more likely to vary in size.

If you want to try making other shapes, I HIGHLY recommend sticking with cookie cutters that have simple shapes. If you attempt anything with too much detail, the cake pops won’t maintain their shape.

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You could drizzle melted chocolate or candy melts over your cake pops, but the easiest way to decorate them is to add afew sprinkleson top and you’re done (don’t you

I chose to use vanilla cake to make it even easier to customize these Valentine cake pops, but you can use any flavor cake that you love.

By simply changing the cake flavor, the color of the candy melts, or the sprinkles, you can easily adapt this recipe for birthday parties, other holidays, and more!I use a different technique than just rolling individual pops. For fun shapes, you can easily use small cookie cutters, like hearts.

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If you want to explore other shapes, stick with cookie cutters that have a simple design. If you attempt anything too intricate, it will be difficult for the cake to maintain its shape.

You can say, as you’re handing this tiny treat to your beloved, that these hearts have literally been pierced by Cupid’s arrow – just like yours.

Be excessively sweet this year for Valentine’s Day, you little love bug. Go ahead and make this recipe below. And don’t forget to follow my Cooking by the Numbers section, to get all the details you need for your desserts to turn out perfectly.

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Follow ’s step-by-step guidelines on how to make perfect cake pops: mix the cake with the icing until you achieve the right texture and density.

Prepare your work surface as the dough is chilling: place a piece of parchment paper on a flat surface, like a cutting board, table, or countertop.

Place the chilled dough on the parchment paper. Using a rolling pin, evenly roll out the dough to between 1/4 and 1/2 inch thick. Don’t roll it out any thinner – you want the cake to be thick enough that you will be able to insert a lollipop stick without the dough falling apart or tearing.

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With a small heart-shaped cookie cutter (I used one that was about 1 1/2 inches wide), cut heart shapes from the dough. Gently push the cake through to the other side of the cookie cutter to remove.

Reshape and press together any cracks that have formed on either side. Set aside on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.

Melt a few chocolate wafers in the microwave. One at a time, dip the tip of each lollipop stick in the chocolate, and very carefully insert a stick through the pointy bottom of each heart, pushing through to about halfway up each heart.

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Melt the chocolate coating and let cool slightly for about 5 minutes. Once it has cooled slightly, dip each one in the chocolate, swirling it to completely coat the surface.

Gently tap it on the side of the bowl to remove any excess, using your fingers or a toothpick if necessary to guide the excess melted coating back into the bowl. Keep tapping and swirling the stick until all excess chocolate is removed, and you have a smooth, even layer.

If the chocolate gets too thick or too cold to work with, re-warm in the microwave, and stir in a little vegetable shortening.

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Apply any sprinkles while the chocolate is still wet and has not yet set. The chocolate will harden quickly, so you want to work fast to make sure the sprinkles stick.

If you want to apply a second layer of chocolate decorations, wait for at least 10 minutes for the base to harden and set. You don’t want the second layer to melt into the base layer!

Get as kitschy as possible for Valentine’s Day! Use all the fun, heart-shaped sprinkles, bows, red and pink nonpareils, and sanding sugars that you can find. Or, try making your own sprinkles, using my recipe for royal icing.

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Place the pops back on the foam block to completely set, about 20 minutes. Once the chocolate has completely set, your bite-sized desserts can be eaten immediately, or they can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

You can carefully wrap each individual treat in cellophane and store on a large platter. Or, you can keep them upright on the foam block, and gently cover