How To Make Cake Pops For A Baby Shower

Surprise & delight baby shower guests with these easy gender reveal cake pops! Follow the easy steps to unveil the baby's gender in style. Adorable!

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Plus, biting into the colorful candy coating is an exciting, easy way to find out if the little bundle of joy is a boy or a girl!

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This is an overview of the ingredients. You'll find the full measurements and instructions in the green recipe card (printable) at the bottom of the page.

Heat in 30-second increments, stirring well in between, until it's smooth. Don't overheat—the chocolate will continue to melt a little each time you stir it.

You can also use a double boiler if you prefer. However, stir often so the chocolate on the bottom doesn't burn. Be careful not to let any water splash into the chocolate or it'll seize up!

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A note of caution: start with small additions first—I'm talking half of a teaspoon or so. You can always add more as you need to reach a perfect consistency for dipping.

As you dip the gender reveal cake pops, the candy melts will cool down and might start to thicken again. Try rewarming the candy melts a bit, first, before grabbing the shortening again.

Simply store the pops in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week. Keep them out of direct sunlight and away from heat sources.

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Freeze leftover gender reveal cake pops in a heavy-duty zip-top bag for up to six months. You can enjoy them again after your baby boy or girl has arrived!

Expert Tip: For the best cake pops, make sure the balls are smooth before you dip them. If you're struggling (or have a hot kitchen) pop the cake/frosting in the fridge for a bit—it's easier to work with chilled dough.

Cake pops tend to crack when there is a large temperature difference between the candy melts and the cake. If yours start to crack, let the candy melts cool and the cake pops sit at room temperature for a bit.

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You'll get about 18 gender reveal cake pops from one box of mix. They're a little smaller than golf balls. Need more? You can easily double or triple the recipe using the option in the recipe card below.

There are stands you can buy from the store, but they’re quite bland and boring. Or, you can make one (like I did), by taking a container of some kind and using flower arrangement foam to fill it—then decorate the top. A cheap styrofoam block or decorated Amazon box also works great!

No, you won’t. However, depending on the thickness of the white (if you add any shortening to the coating) you may see a little color. In that case, double-dip the white. Triple dip if you really need to.

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Use white cake for a clean, bright gender reveal color. Even a simple yellow cake will mess up the shade—mixed with blue you'll get green, and mixed with pink you'll end up with orange cake batter!

However, if you're aiming for pink cake pops, you could opt for strawberry or pink velvet cake—those'll do the trick. (I've linked my two favorite pink cakes below!)

I don't know how it is where you live but I swear, ever since Pinterest came on the scene people around here have been vying for the cutest party food, the most adorable decor, and on and on and on.

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So, when I find something that is ABSOLUTELY adorable and so easy even I can do it you know I'm gonna share it.

If you click on the number of servings in the recipe card you can adjust the measurements up or down for the exact number of servings you need.

Calories: 284 kcal | Carbohydrates: 35 g | Protein: 3 g | Fat: 15 g | Saturated Fat: 6 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4 g | Trans Fat: 0.1 g | Cholesterol: 32 mg | Sodium: 201 mg | Potassium: 89 mg | Fiber: 0.3 g | Sugar: 25 g | Vitamin A: 46 IU | Vitamin C: 0.1 mg | Calcium: 100 mg | Iron: 1 mg

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Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

With a 40 year focus on the importance of family and a passion for southern comfort food, Marye Audet-White is an expert in melding the two together effortlessly. Marye's a NY Times Bestselling author with 10 cookbooks under her belt and her recipes have been featured in Good Housekeeping, Country Living, Today, House Beautiful, Texas Living, Food & Wine, and many more.When I make cakepops, more often than not I make them using the Babycakes Cake Pop Maker. I received this as a gift, and honestly my first thought was “gimmick”.

Well it turns out, it’s a great little machine and extremely useful. I LOVE the taste of cake pops made this way, compared to the cake and frosting method, and you can add a filling if you like.

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Kohls often has it on sale and if you can catch it with a sale and a coupon, you can usually get a great price.

The question I get the most about the Babycakes Cake Pop Maker is how I get my cake pops round, with many people telling me that theirs come out flat or and odd shape. My immediate question is if they used a regular cake mix or a recipe from Babycakes.

Given that a regular mix still requires adding ingredients, measuring and mixing, it only takes a few more quick steps to make them from scratch using one of the Babycakes recipes. Making a recipe from scratch with the cake pop maker is still quicker than the original method of baking a cake, and then chopping it up and mixing it with frosting and shaping the balls by hand.

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EDITED TO ADD: As of 2017, it looks like the recipes are no longer available on the website unfortunately. Never fear, I have a chocolate cake pop recipe at the end of this post, and you can find the VANILLA CAKE POP MAKER RECIPE here.

Babycakes has their instruction manual, with recipes (previously available on their website). I absolutely LOVE the vanilla cake pop recipe that is in the manual, and it’s my go to recipe for cake pops, it reminds me of pound cake. I’ve found each one that I’ve tried to be delicious and they work great with the machine. I am very excited that they have a brand new cookbook of cake pop recipes with 175 cake pop recipes. I can not wait to try them.

My take is that if you are going to use the machine, use one of their recipes. They’ve been developed for and tested in the Babycakes machine. The included instruction manual includes some great recipes.

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I’m not saying cake mixes won’t work, I just think that it makes sense that you will get the best results following a recipe that was made specifically for this purpose. The Babycakes recipes seem to produce a much thicker batter, which certainly makes it easier to fill the wells of the machine.

The batter is so thick that put my batter into a Ziploc freezer bag and “pipe” it into the wells. I tried this with a cake mix and it was not fun, the cake mix was just too runny. I also saw a suggestion to usea Pancake Pen for the batter. This sounds like an excellent idea that I might have to try.

As of 2019, it appears that Babycakes no longer sells cake pop mixes. I’ve seen this cake pop mix on Amazon, but can’t speak to the results it produces.

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If you want to use a store bought mix, I recommend cutting back on the amount of liquid in the recipe. This is something that is likely going to be different with each brand and flavor, meaning there is no blanket “cut back x amount”. I would also recommend adding a bit more baking powder to the mix, even if just half a teaspoon.

Another fun thing about making your cake pops with the Babycakes machine is that you can easily add/inject a filling into the cake pops! We’ve only used frosting (because we love frosting) but I’m sure you could put lots of other yummy fillings in.

Also, check out this fantastic video from Ahh’s Cakes where she uses the Babycakes Cake Pop Maker and goes through every step – it’s about ten minutes long and very helpful. She appears to be using one of the Pancake Pens to dispense her batter.

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The Babycakes Cakepop Maker might take a bit of practice (though I have to say my very first batch turned out quite nicely), but I really think it’s worth figuring it out, especially if you need to make large batches of cake pops. It also makes some delicious donut holes.