Cake Popsicles Recipe

These Christmas Cake Popsicles, aka Christmas cakesicles area combination of a cake pop and a popsicle! Plus ideas for fun Christmas designs like a Christmas tree, snowman, reindeer, snowflake or candy cane? This recipe has it all.

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Do you love cake pops? Do you love the holidays!? Enter, Christmas Cake Popsicles. These are so much fun to make and decorate and even better to eat!

Easter Cake Pops Recipe

If you are also obsessed with cake pops and cake popsicles (cakesicles), be sure to check out these Halloween Cake Popsicles and Starbucks Cake Pops (with a healthy spin!).

And while you are roasting chestnuts by the open fire with jackfrost nipping at your nose, you should definitely check out this amazing Coquito Recipe (think boozy eggnog cocktail). Yes!

My discovery of cake popsicles has been nothing short of magical. Think a cake pop and a popsicle make a baby! So basically, bigger cake pops shaped like popsicles. Also called cakesicles!

How To Make Cake Pops: A Step By Step Tutorial

Cake popsicles are super easy to make. You can use my Boxed Cake Mix Hacks with any boxed cake as a base for this recipe. You can also use my delicious Homemade Chocolate Cake or any cake recipe you love.

For the frosting, you can use a canned or pre-made frosting or a homemade frosting. Whatever suits your fancy! I personally love this Cream Cheese Frosting without Butter.

Once you get the hang of Christmas cake popsicles, I promise it will open up a whole new world of holiday gifting and eating! Christmas cakesicle ideas are only limited by your imagination.

Fun & Festive Cake Pops Recipe: How To Make It

I have made many Christmas themed cakesicles like Christmas tree cakesicles (using this Christmas tree cakesicles mold), Santa cakesicles, Snowman cakesicles (using this Snowman Christmas cakesicles mold) and even Nightmare before Christmas cakesicles!

This Best Red Velvet Cake from House of Nash Eats is a great option for some deep red cakesicles! These look beautiful and taste even better!

Whether you are making cakesickles to give as a gift or making them to enjoy with your family, there are some essential tools that you will need.

Easy Cake Pops Using Box Mix

Most importantly, you will need cakesicle sticks and a cakesicles tray or cake popsicles mold. This Silicone Popsicle Cakesicle Mold Tray is BPA free and come with cakesicle sticks.

If you are looking to give your Christmas cake popsicles as a gift, I love this super cute cakesicles packaging set or solo cakesicle box.

The trick to making cake pops is to mix cake and frosting together. You then form into a mold and coat with chocolate.

Ingredient Funfetti Cake Pops (using A Box Of Cake Mix)

Cakesicles will be shiny depending on the type of chocolate you use. Candy melts are a great option for a shiny sheen. You can also add edible glitter.

You cakesicles will crack if you don’t add enough chocolate coating in the mold. Also be sure to remove the cakesicles very carefully from the mold.

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Cake Pops Recipe

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Cakesicle Filling Ideas/Cakesicle Flavors: You can use any flavor of cake mix such as birthday cakesicles, pink cakesicles, strawberry cake popsicles, white cakesicles, pastel cakesicles, red velvet cake popsicle, lemon cakesicles, vanilla cakesicles, chocolate cakesicles and carrot cake cakesicles. You can also make brownie cakesicles.

Candy Melts or Chocolate Chips: I recommend using candy melts for this recipe if possible. They tend to melt the most easily, especially for beginning bakers. Alternatively, I like Kroger (Fry’s Food) Private Selection White Chocolate Chips. The main ingredient is cocoa butter so they are higher quality and melted really well in the microwave. You can also use the white chocolate chips to make any color with food coloring or food gel.

Homemade Cake Pops Recipe

Christmas Cake Popsicle Ideas: You can decorate using popular Christmas colors like red, green, white, silver and gold. You can also do fun themes like Christmas trees, snowflakes, candy canes, snowman or reindeer.

Sprinkles and Edible Glitter: Sprinkles and edible glitter are a great beginner way to make Christmas cake popsicles. Be sure to buy food grade edible glitter.

Calories: 123 kcal | Carbohydrates: 24 g | Protein: 1 g | Fat: 3 g | Saturated Fat: 2 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1 g | Trans Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 2 mg | Sodium: 163 mg | Potassium: 13 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 14 g | Vitamin A: 1 IU | Calcium: 46 mg | Iron: 1 mg

Cakesicles Cake Pops (cake Popsicles Recipe)

My name is Aubrey. I am a busy lawyer and momma. While I am passionate about both, I have a place in my heart for great food and want to share it with other food lovers!How was your weekend? We spent most of it celebrating my friend’s birthday. I made a whole mess of treats including chocolate zucchini cake (as cupcakes), these salted caramel dark chocolate cookies, and these peanut butter M&M cookies too—it’s been way too long since I made a batch of those in particular! The birthday girl loves chocolate and peanut butter and caramel so these 3 were a no brainer.

There’s no batter time (get it? batter?) than a happy occasion to indulge in your favorite treats whether that’s a birthday, shower, wedding, you name it. My mom and sisters threw my baby shower last month and one of the treats they surprised me with was a HUGE display of cake pops. I love cake pops, but hardly ever take the time to make them. Though I did whip up a batch for both of my sisters’ bridal showers in the past few years.

The difference between these cake pops and others you may have tried is that these are 100% homemade. There’s no box cake mix or canned frosting, which results in a totally unique cake pop experience. You can actually TASTE the homemade. The love, the passion, and the care that goes into creating each adorable pop.

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So anyway! I first began making homemade cake pops when I wroteSally’s Candy Addiction. In fact, this recipe is published in the book! I want to share it on the blog as well because I’ve gotten lots of questions about making from-scratch cake pops.

Today we’ll go over all my tips, tricks, and secrets to crafting the peeeeerfect pop as well as the homemade vanilla cake and vanilla buttercream used inside. There’s lots of ground to cover so let’s pop right to it. (Can’t stop with my nerdiness right now.)

Since we’re leaving the box cake mix and canned frosting on the store shelves, we’ll need to take a little extra time to prep both from scratch. I always make the cake the night before, then finish the cake pops the next day. Here’s the general process:

How To Make Cake Pops At Home

Super basic recipes for both the vanilla cake and frosting, but I do encourage you to use the correct size pan for the cake. This cake is too large for a typical 9-inch cake pan. You’ll need to use a 9-inch springform pan since it rises quite high. Or you can use an 11×7-inch pan instead. A 10-inch springform pan would work as well.

Cake ingredients are straightforward. The basic crew like flour, butter, sugar, vanilla, milk. Same goes with the vanilla frosting: butter, confectioners’ sugar, vanilla, milk (or cream). The difference between this and what you get out of a box is the taste. You can totally tell these cake pops are special and it’s because you started with from-scratch components. WORTH IT!

(Crumbling the cake into the frosting sounds super weird when you think about it and that’s exactly what cake pops are—super weird when you think about it. It’s cake and frosting mixed together to form a truffle-like ball. Pop a stick in it and dunk into coating. Yep, it’s weirdly delicious and awesome and you need to embrace it.)

Red Velvet Cake Pops Recipe (video)

It’s easier to roll the cake + frosting mixture into perfectly round balls if it’s cold. And what I do is roll the balls up right after the two are mixed together. They’re pretty misshapen because the cake + frosting mixture is super moist—and at room temperature. So then I chill the balls in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. After that, I give them another little roll to smooth out the sides. When they’re cold, they’re easier to smooth out and form perfectly round shapes.

Just like when we make Oreo balls, the cake balls need to be super chilled before dipping, so this trick gets both steps done!

Now let’s dunk. You can dip the cake balls into pure white chocolate, which is what I prefer for best taste, but that stuff is pretty expensive. And you need a good amount for all 40 cake pops! You can use candy melts/candy coating instead. I give both options in the recipe below along with notes for each choice.

Strawberry Cake Pops

Another trick: To ensure the cake