How To Make Starbucks Birthday Cake Pops From Scratch

Cakes are great, but these Starbucks Birthday Cake Pops are even better. What I love about them is that there’s limit mess to clean up and you don’t have to have a bunch of dirty dishes for someone to eat cake. My kids are big fans so of the tiny treats so of course I had to figure out how to make them at home! Check out my Starbucks copycat cake pops recipe today!

I have to admit that I have created tiny cake pop loving monsters. My kids love going to Starbucks as much as their mama because they know it’s cake pop time. They love these mini treats on a stick so much that I had to make a copycat version at home.

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If you have been to Starbucks, you probably saw their famous pink birthday cake pops through their glass goodie case. These treats are a combination of vanilla cake, frosting, and pink candy coating all on a sucker stick.

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Starbucks doesn’t just make their birthday cake pops. In fact, you can get Starbucks cake pops in a variety of different flavors. Here’s what they have:

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When making these Starbucks cake pops, you will need to begin by first making the cake and then the frosting. Follow the steps below!

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In a large bowl, beat together your sugar and butter. Mix until incorporated. Next add in your oil, eggs, vanilla, baking powder, and salt. Mix until incorporated. While alternating, in your flour and milk a little bit each time. Mix until incorporated.

Prepare your instant pot spring form cake pan by placing Parchment paper on the flat plate. Put the spring form pan on top of it and close shop. Remove any remaining parchment that is sticking out using scissors or ripping it off. Spray with cooking spray, or grease with butter.

Fill your pan 3/4 of the way with the batter. Fill your instant pot with 2 cups of water. Placed the trivet inside and place your cake on top of the trivet.

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Close the lid on your instant pot and make sure that the ceiling valve is closed and facing away from you. Set your instant pot to 45 minutes.

Once your instant pot has finished cooking, do a manual released by pulling the ceiling valve towards you to remove any pressure.

With a towel or hot pads, pull the trivet out of the instant pot using the two handles. Transfer to cooling sheet and allow the cake to completely cool.

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While your cake is cooling, add in a small bowl together your Almond bark and 1 tablespoon of oil. Microwave for 30 second intervals, stirring each time. Make sure that your chocolate is completely melted. Add one small drop of pink food coloring to your chocolate mixture. Stir well.

Add your cake to a large bowl as well as your frosting. Mix well. Using a cookie scoop, or eyeballing the size ball that you want, using the palm of your hand, form a round ball. Line each one of your cake balls on a cookie sheet.

After the 15 minutes, remove your cake balls. Taking a treat steak, dip it slightly in your chocolate. This will help it stay in the cake pot. Dip your cake pop in the chocolate and cover it completely. Give it a few seconds to drip off any excess chocolate into the bowl.

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I used a cake pop decorating stand, but you can use even a block of Styrofoam to place the stick in to stand on its own while the chocolate dries and solidifies. Immediately add your sprinkles before the chocolate dries.

If you want to store your cake pops until that special day, you can actually store them at room temperature. Cover and leave them on the counter for up to a week.

If you want to store them for a week or up to a month, you can place them in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

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Yes, you can store your cake pops in the freezer. In fact, they will last 1 to 3 months if stored properly in the freezer. Place them in a large zip lock freezer bag for best results. Let them defrost at room temperature.

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4. Prepare your instant pot spring form cake pan by placing Parchment paper on the flat plate. Put the springform pan on top of it and close shop. Remove any remaining parchment that is sticking out using scissors or ripping it off. Spray with cooking spray, or grease with butter.

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6. Fill your instant pot with 2 cups of water. Placed the trivet inside and place your cake on top of the trivet.

8. Once your instant pot has finished cooking, do a manual released by pulling the ceiling valve towards you to remove any pressure.

9. With a towel or hot pads, pull the trivet out of the instant pot using the two handles. Transfer to cooling sheet and allow the cake to completely cool.

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10. While your cake is cooling, add in a small bowl together your Almond bark and 1 tablespoon of oil. Microwave for 30 second intervals, stirring each time. Make sure that your chocolate is completely melted.

13. Using a cookie scoop, or eyeballing the size ball that you want, using the palm of your hand, form a round ball. Line each one of your cake balls on a cookie sheet.

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15. After the 15 minutes, remove your cake balls. Taking a treat steak, dip it slightly in your chocolate. This will help it stay in the cake pot.

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16. Dip your cake pop in the chocolate and cover it completely. Give it a few seconds to drip off any excess chocolate into the bowl.

17. I used a cake pop decorating stand, but you can use even a block of Styrofoam to place the stick in to stand on its own while the chocolate dries and solidifies. Immediately add your sprinkles before the chocolate dries.

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This copycat recipe makes the perfect Starbucks Birthday Cake Pop at home. It is the perfect treat to serve up at a baby shower, birthday parties and even weddings!

While you can certainly get a cake pop at your nearest Starbucks coffee shop, when you have kids that love eating these too, buying cake pops for the entire family can become quite expensive.

Making these copycat cake pops at home will save you so much money in the long run because you can make them for a fraction of the cost. Plus, you’ll have enough to enjoy more than one!

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This copycat Starbucks cake pops recipe is so easy to make. It’s a combination of vanilla cake, pink colored white chocolate and vanilla frosting to make a treat that’ll satisfy your sweet tooth.

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Prepare the Cake Mix according to the directions on the back of the box.Grease a 9 X 13 dish, and pour the Cake Batter into the dish.

Bake the cake at 350 degrees, for about 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.Remove the dish from the oven, and set on a wire rack to cool.

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When the cake cools, use a fork and break up the baked vanilla cake into small crumbs, scraping the bottom of the dish, and sides.

Add the can of frosting to the mixture of cake crumbs, and using your hands, mix the crumbs and frosting until you have a well mixed gooey mound of Cake mixture.

Roll the cake mixture into cake balls using the palm of your hand about 1 1/2 inches in size and place on the parchment paper that is placed onto a baking sheet. Continue until you’ve used all the cake mixture.You can also use a cookie scoop to ensure they are all the same size.

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In a microwave safe bowl, place about half of the delicate pink candy coating pieces, and melt them at 30-second intervals, until you can stir them smooth.

Using the lollipop sticks, dip the sticks into the melted candy melts, and immediately into one of the cake balls then place onto the cookie sheet.Repeat until all the cake balls have a stick.

After 30 minutes, remove the cake pops from the freezer, and place the remainder of the candy melts in with the melted candy melts bowl, and melt in the Microwave.

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Holding the sticks, dip the entire cake pop into the melted pink candy melts, and place the cake pops, with the stick, into a large block of styrofoam, and sprinkle the white sprinkles