How To Make Cake Pops From Extra Cake

I’ve never loved traditional birthday cake with frosting… however, since cake is a birthday party must-have (at least according to the rest of my family) I make several birthday cakes every year, complete with a fair amount of frosting!

However, since I use at least 2 cake mixes (sometimes 3 or 4) and we only invite grandparents and aunts/uncles to our birthday parties, we end up with TONS of leftover cake.

If you’re looking for a super simple, super delicious way to use up any amount of extra cake and frosting, I have the perfect recipe!

How To Make Cake Pops (step By Step)

NOTE: If you don’t have leftover cake, you could easily just bake a cake, frost it, and continue on with the steps below to make it into cake balls.

Take balls from freezer, carefully dip frozen balls into melted chocolate and then into sprinkles or topping of your choice (I usually only dip half the balls in the chocolate as it’s less messy!)

You can use ANY type of cake, ANY type of frosting, ANY type of chocolate coating, and ANY type of sprinkle or topping — the possibilities and flavor combos are endless!!

Cake Ball Recipe (step By Step Tutorial)

The kids LOVE cake balls (Dave and I do too!) just as much as they love birthday cake! So the fact that they get cake balls a couple days after their birthday party is practically like an “after party” for them!

This year, after James’ Bob the Builder birthday party, I made his leftover cake into cake balls, put them in the freezer, and used them for James’ birthday party with Dave’s family one week later. Everyone was thrilled with that version of “cake” for the party, and I didn’t have to make a 2nd birthday cake (plus, no wasted food!)

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How To Make Cake Pops And Cake Balls

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.Got leftover cake? Enjoyed right away or stored in the freezer for a later date, Leftover Cake Cake Balls are a handy and delicious way to repurpose leftover cake.

Leftover Cake Cake balls are a delicious way to make sure no scrumptious birthday cake goes to waste! Same cake flavor all rolled up and smothered in a chocolate coating. All you need is cake, your stand mixer, and a package of candy melts. Enjoy these cake bites now or store in the freezer for an emergency sweet tooth situation.

Vanilla cake, red velvet cake, birthday cake–these cake balls make leftovers new again. You can use cake pop sticks and turn them into cake pops, or eat them as is like we do. They have such a satisfying texture. Like little cake truffles. And the kids LOVE them.

Cake Pop Cake Recipe

Need a great cake recipe to bake for a special occasion? Try The Greatest Chocolate Cake recipe. Rich, moist chocolate cake with a decadent dark chocolate frosting–it’s the best you’ll ever eat!

Cakes with buttercream icing work best for this recipe, but you can do this with cream cheese frosting cakes as well. It’s just a little less sticky. As for cake, you can use from-scratch cakes, store-bought or box cake mix cakes. They’ll all be delicious!

Melting candy wafers usually takes 1 to 2 minutes. I recommend stirring every 30 seconds until melted and smooth. Be sure not to over-melt the candy coating. It will burn and become too thick to stir and coat the cake balls evenly.

How To Make Cake Pops

I hope you love these Leftover Cake Cake Balls as much as I do. When you make them, be sure to snap a picture and tag me on Instagram @so I can see! 😍 I just love seeing how inspired and creative y’all get with the recipes I share. Enjoy!

Enjoy right away or store in the freezer for a later date, Leftover Cake Cake Balls are a handy and delicious way to repurpose leftover cake.

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Leftover Cake Pops

I’ll be honest. I’ve never really had a problem using up leftover cake. If I happened to not finish up cake by snacking on it over a period of 24 hours or so, I’d throw it in the freezer. And the only thing better than cake? Frozen cake. So yes…leftover cake is not an issue.

Cake pops are a delicious treat. So use leftover cake or make a whole cake for the purpose of turning them into cake pops. Here’s how to do it.

An optional tool is a cake pop stand. This will help the cake pops set in a perfect shape without having to lay them down.

Cakeball Pops And The Secret To Dipping Anything In Chocolate

Do you need cake pop molds? From what I can see, cake pop molds are for baking a cake in ball shapes. This is not what this recipe is for. This recipe makes a thick, truffle like piece of candy. Not a ball of fluffy cake.

Making cake pops can be a little messy, but if you walk through the steps carefully, you’ll end up with a beautiful result!

Yes! You can freeze cake pops for up to 6 weeks. You can also freeze the undipped cake pops, then allow them to defrost and dip in chocolate.

Cake Pop Dough

If the cake is extra moist, it may not need any frosting for a binder. If you feel like it does need something, try a small amount of cream cheese or even a touch of heavy cream. Just don’t add too much or it will get mushy.

This really depends on how big you roll the balls. I usually get between 24-30 cake balls because I roll the balls a nice size. If you roll them smaller, you make it 3-4 dozen.

Cracks in the cake ball happen most often because the chocolate is too hot and the cake ball is too cold. The large temperature difference can cause cracking. To fix this issue, allow the melted chocolate to sit for a bit before dipping. And make sure the cake balls aren’t frozen solid…just chill them enough so that they don’t fall off the stick.

Donut Hole Cake Pops

You can make roll the cake balls two days in advance. Then dip the cake balls and serve within 24-48 hours after dipping.

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