How To Make Cake Pops Out Of Donuts

It’s National Something On a Stick Day! So, I had to make Doughnut Cakepops! These are Cakepops shaped like doughnuts and topped with pink chocolate and sprinkles.

I used to make cakepops all the time when I had a desserts business. It was my top order for birthday parties. Now, I only really make them for my kids’ birthdays or for their school events.

This recipe is for 12. I used about 1/2 cake recipe for it. If you’re making 2 dozen, then use the whole cake.

Mini Donut Pops Recipe

Start with baking a vanilla cake in a 9×13 pan. After it cools, cut it in half and save the rest for another time.

Then I cut off all of the darkened browned areas so that you only have the light vanilla color. This step isn’t necessary, but I like them to have a solid color.

To get them to hold shape, use frosting. Can frosting is the easiest because you only need 2-3 tablespoons. It would be a waste to make a whole batch of frosting do only a couple of tablespoons.

Diy Quick, Easy & Yummy Donut Hole Cake Pops

When you’re melting the chocolate candy melts, you need oil to make it smoother. It’s best to use paramount crystals. You can find them at cake supply stores or on Amazon. If you don’t have it, you can use vegetable oil.

Place the cake in a food processor to get fine crumbs. Add 2-3 tbsps of vanilla frosting and pulse until it resembles dough. If you don’t have a food processor that’s fine. Just use your hands to mix and squeeze the cake and frosting until it looks like the dough.

Use the handle of a wooden spoon to make an indentation in the middle so that it looks like a doughnut. Repeat with remaining balls. Refrigerate for 5 minutes.

Dunkin' Donuts Cake Pops

Place both colors of candy melts into a microwave safe bowl. Add oil or paramount crystals. Microwave for 60 seconds. The Chocolate will not look melted, but it is. If you keep microwaving it, it will burn. Stir chocolate with a spoon until it’s smooth.

Take a lollipop stick, dip it into the chocolate candy melts, then insert it in the bottom of the doughnut. Place in a cakepop holder, a piece of styrofoam or a glass of rice to let it dry. Repeat with remaining cakepops.

Then, take each cakepop, and dip them fully into the chocolate. Tap the stick on the side of the bowl to remove excess chocolate. Then put each back into the holder. Let them fully dry. It can take 10-15 minutes.These Easy Cake Pops or Donut Hole Cake Pops are perfect for parties and holidays. Use store-bought donuts to make cake pops in half the time!

Easy Vanilla Cake Pops Recipe With Cake Pops Maker

While we love making things from scratch, sometimes you do not have the time and need an easy recipe hack to get onto the next event in your life a little bit quicker. These Cake Pops made with Donut Holes are just the trick to help simplify your life.

You do not have to spend a couple of hours making and baking a cake and then form the cake into balls before dipping them any longer! Instead, use premade donut holes, dip them into melted chocolate, and finish them off with a simple chocolate drizzle and fun addition of sprinkles.

Three ingredients and twenty-five minutes are all you need to make these Donut Hole Cake Pops. No baking involved! Grab your little ones as they will love helping you make these.

Donut Cake Pops For Teacher Gifts

We love the versatility of this recipe. You can mix and match the chocolate and sprinkles to match any theme you need.

For example, use red, white, and blue sprinkles for a Patriotic party, pink or blue for a baby shower, or orange and purple sprinkles for a Halloween-themed party.

STORE: Do not store it in the fridge or freezer. The chocolate will sweat when brought to room temperature. This causes the sprinkles to bleed. Store at room temperature in either an airtight container or cover with plastic wrap if stored overnight.

Donut Cake Pops

Allow to cool upside down at room temperature until the chocolate is set. There is no need to put these Donut Hole Cake Pops in the fridge before dipping as you might when making traditional Cake Pops.

Please do not skip dipping the colored stick into the chocolate and then sticking it into the donut hole. This step acts as the glue to attach the stick to the donut hole. In other words, the chocolate on the end of the stick dries inside the donut hole, thus helping the cake pop and not fall off the stick. Just be sure to allow the stick to set completely before dipping the donut holes into the melted chocolate.

We prefer to use melting wafers for dipping the donut holes into them as they melt well and cover the cake pops smoothly after dipping. Chocolate chips do not create a shiny coating after dipping the cake pops as melting wafers do. Chocolate chips can become clumpy as they do not melt as well.

How To Make Easy Cake Pops Using Donut Holes!

Ages 2-3: Let your little one dip the colored sticks into the melted chocolate and then help you stick them in the donut hole. A fun counting game will be to count each stick as they dip it into the chocolate.

Ages 4-5: Your child will love being able to use their creativity to decorate the donut holes as you show them how to drizzle the additional layer of drizzled chocolate and add on the sprinkles to the donut holes.

Ages 6-8: Guide your child’s hands as you teach them how to dip the cake pop in chocolate and shake off the excess. They can repeat the process with the remaining donut holes on their own.

Chocolate Cake Pops

The average cake pop will cost you around $2. So making them at home is a cost-effective way to enjoy this yummy treat!

Serving: 1 cake pop | Calories: 153 kcal | Carbohydrates: 21 g | Protein: 2 g | Fat: 6.8 g | Saturated Fat: 1.2 g | Sodium: 102 mg | Sugar: 16 g | Calcium: 10 mg | Iron: 2 mg

Easy Budget Recipes is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.I’m the first to admit I can be a little lazy. I’m a hard working mama most of the time, but that lazy bone that some people don’t have? I think I might have a tiny one in me somewhere. Every once in a while, I’ll see it surface.

Mini Cake Mix Donuts {baked, Not Fried!}

Like when we are trying to get out the door to do preschool drop-offs and Little Boy #3 has the worst case of bedhead ever recorded. He’s not even going to school, just going with me to drop off Little Boy #2 mind you. Why do I spend 5 minutes looking for his hat instead of just actually wetting his hair down and running the comb through it? LAZY!

Or how about when my shirt is a little wrinkly? Do I get out the iron like a normal person, or do I spray it, and then try to use my hair blow dryer to get out the wrinkles? GUILTY!

Last one… if I see a few crumbs on the floor, instead of walking to the closet, pulling out the dust buster and actually vacuuming up the crumbs, if I’m feeling

Giant Donut Cake

Actually just kick them under the couch. Sheesh, I know! But see, I know it’s already dirty under the couch anyway… What’s a few more crumbs, right? SO LAZY!

So these Easy Donut Hole Cake Pops are for all you lazy people like me out there! Hard working chefs of America, please look away.

We’ve got all the cuteness of a cake pop, but you don’t have to bake a cake… or mix it with frosting… or scoop it into balls.

Easy Gluten Free Cake Pops (chocolate)

You just melt your chocolate or candy coating, dip the lollipop stick a tiny bit into the melted chocolate, and press it into the top of your cake donut hole that you bought in the bakery section of your grocery store. This will keep it from falling off the stick when you are dipping. If you donut hole is shaped a little wonky, just take a paring knife and trim off the wonky part.

Then you let the chocolate coating harden in the fridge for about 10 minutes, and pull them out and dip the whole thing in the melted chocolate, sprinkle your sprinkles, and then put them back in the fridge to set. It took me about 25 minutes to do two dozen. I also like to let the cake pop harden with the stick pointing up. No worrying needing a special tray to hold them, and you get to add to the cuteness with patterned mini cupcake liners.

So if you need cake pops in a hurry, this is the way to go! Or maybe you know the kids at your Easter celebration aren’t too into carrot cake – these are the perfect kiddo treat.

Caramel Apple Donut Cake Pops

I almost didn’t post this recipe, because I didn’t really want