These Easy Strawberry Cake Pops with Crunch Topping are made from a simple box cake with buttercream filling and chocolate coating. With a quick strawberry crunch topping, these cake pops are simple to make and downright delicious!
These strawberry cake pops are perfect for beginner bakers. Using a box cake mix cuts out prep and baking time. Let us face it, sometimes we just do not have the time to build recipes from scratch and that is ok!
As a beginner baker, it can be daunting to attempt recipes that “look” hard to prepare. As mentioned, this recipe is made with box cake therefore, most of the steps are fairly easy if followed by the detailed instructions listed.
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So no, cake pops are in fact, not hard to make and for this reason, I hope you give this Valentine’s Day Cake Pop recipe a try too!
To explain, the recipe starts with box cake that is prepared according to instructions. The trick is adding cream cheese frosting to the baked cake (after it has cooled) and forming the cake into dough like balls.
In this case, you don’t have to use a stand to make cake pops. You can prepare them as cake balls and lay them on parchment paper or a flat surface to dry. However, if you’d like to make traditional cake pops with a lollipop stick, you can purchase this set that I found onAmazon.
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This is one of the top questions I perceive a reader to have. With that said, you are in luck that these cake pops can last up to one week. Simply store them in an airtight container or as I did, in a twist-tie sealed bag and enjoy them when you are ready to devour them.
It is also important to note, the baked cake batter freezes well too. Be sure to wrap the baked cake batter into a freezer safe wrap suchthis brandand thaw until room temperature when you are ready to form the batter into cake balls!
With just a handful of pantry staple items, you will have cake pops in hand in no time. In detail, here is what you will need:
Red Velvet Cakeberries (chocolate Dipped Strawberry Cake Bites)
It is important to note that this step in the recipe is certainly optional but if you have the time, I suggest creating the fun topping. It adds extra texture and additional strawberry flavor that is pleasing to the palate.
First, add the vanilla flavored cookies to a Ziploc bag and using a meat pounder or hard surface, crush the cookies. Once the cookies are crumbled, pour into a small to medium sized bowl.
Next, add ¼ teaspoon of strawberry emulsion to the bowl and stir until thoroughly combined. The finished product should look like the image below.
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Depending on your region, it may be difficult to find strawberry emulsion. In the event that you cannot find this product, there are substitutions that will work!
To explain, identifying a good chocolate will make the dipping process a breeze. The best chocolate for melting and dipping is called “couverture” chocolate. This chocolate is high quality and has a higher percentage of cocoa butter than baking or eating chocolate. In the event that you can’t find couverture chocolate, here are a few chocolates selections that will work.
First, prepare the strawberry box cake per the recipe instructions. It is important to note that for best results, less oil is required than what is listed on the recipe instructions. To clarify, only use one tablespoon of oil.
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You can even omit the oil entirely. This will ensure for a spongy or doughy like texture similar to Starbuck’s Cake Pops!
Next, after the cake is baked, allow time for the cake to cool. After the cake has cooled, crumble the cake by using a hand or stand mixer.
Crumble the cake until crumbled and broken down. At this instant, add in the cream cheese. It is important to note, begin adding up to two tablespoons at a time.
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Now, it is time to prepare the cake balls. It is helpful to use a cookie scoop or tablespoon and a half to keep the balls relatively the same size. After forming the cake balls, place on lined flat surface and freeze for 10-15 minutes.
If you find that your cake pops are crumbly, this simply means you need to add more cream cheese to the cake batter.
Now it’s time to melt the chocolate. Begin by placing the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and add up to two teaspoons of oil at a time.
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Microwave the chocolate in thirty second intervals and stir thoroughly between each increment. Continue this process until the chocolate is smooth and slightly runny.
Now it is time to dip the cake pops into the melted chocolate. Begin by taking the lollipop stick and slightly dipping the stick into chocolate.
This will help with adhering the cake pop to the lollipop stick. After dipping the lollipop stick, slowly insert the stick into the cake pop, about halfway through the cake pop.
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Now, slowly dip the chocolate into the chocolate and use a spoon or spatula to ladle chocolate over the cake ball until thoroughly coated. Hold the cake pops upside down and allow all the excess chocolate to drip from the cake pop.
After the chocolate on the cake pop no longer drips, add the crunch topping to the top of the cake pop. There are two options to add the crunch. Simply dip the top of the cake pop with melted chocolate into the bowl of crunch topping.
Strawberry Cake Pops with Crunch Topping are perfect for your kid's school activities or for your guests. Lastly, it is always fun to add a twist to recipes and the crunch topping really takes the strawberry cake pops to the next level. You will certainly note similarities to a strawberry eclair ice cream bar!Find me one person who doesn't like cake pops! I made two batches of cake pops in two different flavors last week and even experimented a bit with the coating, swirling a few colors together for a cool tie-dye effect. I'm not quite there yet on what I was setting out to achieve, but my kids enjoyed swirling the colors together, so I call that mission accomplished!
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Let's take a step back to see how all these cake pops popped (lol) up in my kitchen last week. Now that I am unemployed temporarily, I get one question a lot from friends and family: what do you do all day?
When I was employed, I would daydream often about what not working would feel like - all the wonderful and productive things I would get done, all the naps I would take, the amazing physical shape I'd be in from all the working out I'd do, how organized my house would be, how close I'd be with my kids from spending so much more time with them, and just how generally un-hurried I'd be.
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When I'm working, I always feel behind the clock - wake up, get everyone dressed and fed before the school bus comes, hurry up and get to work, hurry up and get to all the meetings, hurry up and get home to make dinner, hurry up to finish cleaning up for the night and prepare for the following day, hurry up and get to bed so I can wake up and do it all over again.
Turns out, time really flies and there's still plenty of hurry! The days zip by and some days I don't even know where the time went or what I have done. No joke!
I wouldn't have believed it myself when I was working, but believe you me, I'm not exaggerating. This is said with all due respect to my (now) fellow SAHMs. I
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Am not playing into the mommy wars whatsoever - I have much respect for the amount of work and time it takes to keep a household running.
And now that I have some experience with being both a working mom and a stay-at-home mom, I can say with honesty and respect that neither is a luxury nor ideal.
I have found that keeping to a schedule, though, helps me structure my day and actually get things done. Sort of like, well, my calendar when in the office.
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I get the kids to school, then I work out (most days), shower and eat, then I run my errands, check my email, apply for some jobs, and occasionally have lunch with my mom or a friend.
By the time I do all that, the kids are just about getting off the school bus again! So, to help build in more time for myself, I've learned to think ahead and plan and be efficient with my time - go figure!
I know, shouldn't have taken me that long to figure that out, but it did. Of course, just like when I am working, I find plenty of time to procrastinate doing the
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