Cake pops are a popular treat. Apart from being delicious, they're aesthetically pleasing and are a great way to make use of stale cake or cake crumbs. While they're time-consuming to make at home, they generally aren't very difficult as long as you have the proper supplies and ingredients. However, there is a lot that can go wrong when making this dessert yourself. Some common issues include falling apart, not getting them evenly coated in candy, and cake balls falling off sticks. However, there are plenty of tried and true cake pop tips which can combat the most common roadblocks.
There is an easy hack to keeping your cake pop tops from falling off their sticks, and all it takes is a quick step and a little extra patience. To keep the cake attached, simply dip the sticks in melted candy topping before sticking them in the pre-formed cake mixture. After hardening, the candy will act like glue to keep the cake from falling off.
The key to keeping your cake pops on the stick is super easy. After forming spheres out of your cake mixture, let them chill in the fridge so they can firm up. Once they're mostly set, melt the candy topping in a bowl. Food Network recommends dipping the sticks in the candy before pushing them into the cake balls. Once you've done this step for every cake pop, return them to the fridge or freezer to allow the candy to set.
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The candy, once dried, acts as a glue between the stick and the cake, helping hold them together. This makes the cake much less likely to fall off the stick when dipped in external candy coating or when you take a bite. After all, no one wants a cake pop that falls and gets lost in the candy when attempting to coat it or ends up dropping on the floor when you try to eat it. This hack takes only a few extra seconds per cake pop and doesn't use any ingredients beyond those you already have for the recipe, and it's well worth it to keep your dessert intact.
If your cake pops fall off even with this trick, there might be other factors at play. If you don't chill your cake pops enough before adding the sticks and coating them, they may not be completely set. This could cause them to fall apart rather than hold their shape. In addition, your cake pops could be too big for their sticks. While you don't want your guests to feel you're skimping on their cake pops, keep in mind when forming the balls that you'll be fighting gravity when dipping. The candy on the stick can only hold so much force; if the cake is too big, it can still fall off.
Finally, ensure you're being gentle with the cake pops. Despite following all of the advice above, the tops can still fall off if you're too rough while dipping them in the candy and shaking off the excess coating. Cake pops are a delicate dessert that require a lot of finesse to get right. Slow down and take your time to ensure this aesthetic treat turns out as intended.If you are having a hard time making them or if you have certain issues that you never been able to fix, I am here to help!
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If your cake pops are not round enough, you either used not enough frosting (cake ball won’t stick together) or way too much!
– Mostly that happens when you dip your cake pops right away and you have not let them rest in the refrigerator or freezer to firm up. This is really important! – If your cake pops are too big, this can be a reason as well. I usually weigh my pops, 20g and you are good. Or keep them around 1.3 inches in diameter.
– You might used too much frosting, so the cake ball is way too soft. Add more cake, form them again and let them rest in the refrigerator to firm up! – If you’ve dipped the stick in your candy melts and stuck it in the cake ball, it can still fall off, because the chocolate inside the cake ball has not set yet. I usually wait a couple of minutes before I dip my cake pops in the candy melts and let the chocolate inside the pop dry first.
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– If your candy melts are too thick, which they usually are to me, I add vegetable oil, bit by bit though, until you reach your desired consistency. If you are adding too much oil, you need to add more candy melts.
– It can be the temperature also: If you heated the candy melts up too hot, the candy melts will get all lumpy. Just wait a little until they are cooled down. – Are you sure no water etc. accidentally got into your candy melts? Water makes them all lumpy.
Anything can happen but sometimes you just do not know what you’ve done wrong! Does any of these issues sound familiar to you?
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If your candy melts crack after they’ve dried, I am pretty sure your cake balls were way too cold before you dipped them. Of course you need to let your cake balls firm up in the refrigerator or freezer, but if you placed them in the freezer, make sure to take them out and let them rest on your counter for at least 15 minutes to warm up and expand a little. If your cake balls are too cold when you coat them, they expand while warming up and this is why they cause cracks.
That happens quite often; after coating your cake pops little air bubbles pop up. That’s why oils or butter from the cake try to get out. When you see airbubbles approaching, take a toothpick and pop the air bubbles. You won’t see a thing after the coating has dried. But do that while the coating is still wet!
This problem is called “blooming” – just like in photography. The candy melts still taste wonderful, so tastewise those streaks do nothing to the candy melts, but it just does not look all even anymore. That happens when you heated up your candy melts way too hot. I heat my candy melts in a mircowave, and with a microwave blooming can occur so easily because you do not have control over the heat.
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Once you see blooming happening, just add a couple of candy melts drops (dry) to your bowl with the already (way too hot) melted candy melts.
Stir dry candy melts in there until everything is combined, smooth and melted. Do not put it back in the microwave though. Best is to check the temperature! Get a candy thermometer, you will need it a lot so it’s great to have one at hand. Make sure the temperature is around 30 degrees Celsius, that is around 90 degrees Fahrenheidt.
So after your candy melts are all smooth, dip another cake pop in there and see what happens if the coating dries. Blooming should be all gone now =) When reheating the candy melts (if you need to), do that in 15-20 seconds intervals and stir for a while and see if it is necessary to put them back in the microwave.
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O you just have to be patient and shake off the excess of the candy melts until it does not look runny anymore.
People who start with cake pops are having a hard time achieving good results with food pens and I am sure that is extremely frustrating. There are quite a few brands out there but honestly, only one brand works for me OK, not perfect, but OK. This can be really disappointing since those pens are not cheap at all and mostly you have to buy them online. There are a few brands, such as Wilton, Kopykake and others.
For me though, Americolor is a good brand and works for me the best. You can shop the edible food pens here. I use those all the time and those come in various colors.
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Once received your long awaited food pens, you are happy and ready to get started but: Certain pens won’t write on your cake pops! WHY? Even a good pen like Americolor won’t write perfectly on your cake pop when you used too much vegetable oil to thin out your coating.
It is a good and cheap method to thin your coating but it does cause problems when you want to paint on your cake pops afterwards. If your candy melts are too thick, try to rather use Paramount Crystals instead of oil.
There are times where your food pen has dried out. What to do?? You can use food gel coloring! Use the tip of your food pen and dip it in a little bit of food gel coloring (black for example) and gently paint on your cake pops, it works! To me that’s not a way of doing that for many many cake pops but it is a last minute
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