How Can You Make Cake Pops Without The Sticks

How to make homemade cake pops? Which recipes to choose? How to decorate them? How to make them successful? Follow this guide to make cake pops, an easy sweet treats recipe made without mold, perfect for any occasion like a baby shower, birthday party, wedding, and more.

The cake pops also called cake balls, are small balls of cake coated with chocolate or candy coating and decorated with sprinkles.

They were invented by the very famous blogger Angie Dudley from the Bakerella blog and she highlighted them during the Martha Stewart TV show.

Best Cake Pop Recipes

Since then, these tiny, colorful cake pops have been super trendy and totally irresistible, and they are great to spend time making with the kids who have so much fun.

These little sweet bites are a lot of fun, with an endless choice of decorations, and can be twisted into any shape and for any occasion.

In Christmas tree, in bell for Easter, for a birth, a wedding, or using special molds for pop cakes, cupcakes, or ice cream cones.

The Do's And Don'ts Of Making Cake Pops

You don't have to be an advanced baker to make the perfect cake pops recipe at home! All you need is a cake mix or vanilla cake or even leftover cake, some icing like cream cheese or buttercream frosting, candy melts, lollipop sticks, and sugar decorations.

In this recipe I share you my buttermilk vanilla sponge to make these vanilla cake pops, but here are other similar sponge that you can use:

You can also replace the sponge cake with crumbled cookies like Oreo cookies in this Oreo cake pops recipe or Biscoff cookies in these Biscoff cake pops recipe.

How To Make The Best Beautiful And Easy Cake Pops

Candy melts: These little chocolate pistols that come in all colors and are not really chocolate, are perfect to make cake pops!

Tip: The dough is a little wet, it can stick to your hands, after a short time in the fridge, you will be able to roll them again more easily to give them a nice round shape.

Tip: For a thinner candy melt or chocolate, you can add a small amount of crisco, coconut oil, candy wafers, cocoa butter or vegetable oil.

Cake Balls From Leftover Cake (vegan Pralines)

The candy melt will crack if there is a temperature shock. Let the cake pops come to room temperature a bit before dipping them in the candy melts.

You need to dip the sticks in the melted candy melts beforehand, which will act as a glue and prevent the sticks from coming off the cake.

The cake pops can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container box with a tight-fitting lid or in the refrigerator.

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Storage: 2-3 days at room temperature and up to 1 week in the refrigerator. You can also keep them in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Keywords: cake pops, pop cakes, homemade cake pops, vanilla cake pops, cake pops recipe, easy cake pops, how to make cakes pops, These Easy No Bake Cake Pops are a fun, quick and lightened up version of traditional cake pops. Made with almond and coconut flours, maple syrup and butter, they are naturally gluten-free, refined sugar free and so delicious your family will absolutely love them!

No Bake Cake Pops

This no bake cake pop recipe is very special to me because it marks 100th recipe on Wholly Tasteful! To celebrate, I wanted to celebrate with something festive but quick and simple and that's how these delicious treats were born!

I’ve been thinking about making a healthier rendition of classic Starbucks cake pops for a while and these turned out better than any cake pops I’ve ever had. Seriously, they are so delicious it’s very hard to limit yourself to eating only one!

I love making healthier versions of sweet treats using almond and coconut flour, such as in these Healthier Reese’s Eggs, my Healthy Rice Krispie Treats or these vegan Healthy Almond Shortbread Heart Cookies. For the base of this recipe, I decided to use raw cookie dough made with a combo of these 2 flours, maple syrup, vanilla, salt and fat. I’ve experimented with coconut oil and nut butters and both work well but I found that melted butter gives these cake balls a truly cake-like flavor and texture.

Easy Cake Pops (no Baking Required!)

These fabulous pops are super moist and soft on the inside and wonderfully crunchy and sweet on the outside, thanks to the winning white chocolate + colorful sprinkles coating. Best part? They are not only healthier but also SO MUCH easier to make than traditional cake pops made with baked cake!

Make sure to also try these Strawberry Cake Pops, No-Bake Cheesecake Balls and these No-Bake Freezer Carrot Cake Bars for more great no-bake recipes.

Step 1: Make the dough. Place both flours, vanilla, maple syrup, butter and salt in a bowl and mix with a silicone spatula until dough forms. So easy and no electric mixer needed!

Chocolate Cake Pops — Salt & Baker

Step 2: Form dough balls. Use a small cookie scoop or a spoon to divide the dough into 12 equally sized portions (the size of a walnut). Then roll into uniform round balls using your hands.

Step 3: Chill. Insert a lolipop stick in the middle of each dough ball (almost all the way in) and place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to set.

Step 3: Melt the chocolate. I use a microwave safe plastic bowl and melt the chocolate chips in 30-second increments, stirring in-between until all the chocolate is melted.

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Step 4: Coat the cake pops and decorate with sprinkles. Dip each cake pop in melted chocolate (using a spoon if needed) and sprinkle with rainbow sprinkles right away. Place in a cake pop stand, a piece of Styrofoam or on a paper-lined baking sheet. Repeat 12 times.

Step 5: Let the cake pops set in the fridge. Carefully place the cake pops in the fridge for at least 30 minutes or until the chocolate is completely dry to touch.

After the cake pops are completely set and dry to touch, you can store them in an airtight container or in a ziplock bag for up to a week in the fridge or up to 3 months in the freezer. If you freeze them, you can either enjoy them frozen or leave them out in room temperature for a couple minutes to thaw and serve!

How To Make Cake Pops With A Mold

Raw wheat flour is not safe to eat so you technically could but you would need to toast it in the oven first. I’ve seen no-bake treat recipes using toasted flour but haven’t tested it myself.

If the dough seems crumbly, just place the dough ball in the palm of your hand and squeeze for a couple seconds. The warmth of your hand will make it more pliable and easier to roll. If it’s still too crumbly, add a tiny bit more melted butter or a tablespoon to two of milk (or non-dairy milk).

Yes! If you want to make these without sticks, form the balls, place them in the fridge to set and then use a fork to dip them in melted white chocolate. Place on a paper-lined cookie sheet to set.

How To Make Cake Pops Without Candy Melts: Easy Alternatives (2023)

It is helpful to have one but if you don’t make cake pops often, you certainly don’t need it. If you have any styrofoam at your house, it makes an excellent DIY cake pop stand. Another option is to just place dipped cake pops onto a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet and leave them to set. They won’t have a perfectly round coating but will still taste delicious!  

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If you want different color cake pops (blue or pink for a baby shower, for example), add a few drops of food coloring to melted white chocolate chips and stir until uniform color forms. You can also use milk or dark chocolate chips instead of white chocolate.

Healthy, No Bake Carrot Cake Pops

For chocolate cake pops, add 1 tablespoon of raw cocoa powder to the dough and mix well. You can also stir in mini chocolate chips for chocolate chip cake pops or rainbow sprinkles for funfetti cake pops.

Once the white chocolate is melted, work fast so it doesn’t harden before you get to the last cake pop. If it does harden, just place the bowl with melted white chocolate chips back in the microwave for 10 seconds and stir thoroughly. Repeat if needed until the chocolate is liquid again.

For a vegan version of cake pops, use melted coconut oil or vegan butter in place or regular butter and dairy-free chocolate chips.

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Calories: 154 kcal | Carbohydrates: 15 g | Protein: 3 g | Fat: 10 g | Saturated Fat: 5 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2 g | Trans Fat: 0.1 g | Cholesterol: 10 mg | Sodium: 46 mg | Potassium: 45 mg |