How To Make Blue Cake Pops

These gender reveal cake pops are so easy to make and full of the sweet flavors of cake and frosting. They're an adorable way to make any gender reveal party tasty and festive.

If you'd rather have your guests enjoy a tasty treat instead of having them watch your spouse get hit in the crotch with a rogue gender reveal rocket, then this is the recipe for you.

I constantly shake my head when I see all the gender reveal disasters online. I was pregnant before these reveals were a thing, and most of them seem like disasters waiting to happen. Not this gender reveal idea, though!

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Top Tip: Do not skip the chilling step on your cake balls before dipping them in the melting chocolate, or the frosting won't coat or stick correctly.

It only takes a few simple ingredients to make this recipe. You'll find them all easily at your local grocery store. For quantities, see the recipe card at the end of the post.

Room Temperature: If made with vanilla or buttercream frosting, these cake pops can be stored in an air-tight container at room temperature for three to five days.

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Refrigerator: Cake pops made with cream cheese frosting must be stored in the refrigerator. They'll last for up to five days in the fridge.

Make Ahead: These pops do very well at room temperature or in the refrigerator, so you can make them up to three days ahead of time.

Cake pops like these pair well with other sweet treats and savory options like salty snacks. That's usually how you'll find them served at parties. Here are some ideas for you to consider!

Gender Reveal Cake Pops

Broken glass jello and these mermaid cupcakes or rainbow cupcakes also make a nice addition to the dessert table at your party!

If you leave your cake balls in the freezer too long and don't let them warm up a bit, the drastic change in temperature can cause the candy to crack as it melts.

These gender reveal cake pops are so easy to make and full of the sweet flavors of cake and frosting. They're an adorable way to make any gender reveal party tasty and festive.

Pops For Pop!

Calories: 86 kcal Carbohydrates: 11 g Fat: 4 g Saturated Fat: 4 g Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1 g Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1 g Sodium: 6 mg Potassium: 0.4 mg Sugar: 11 g Calcium: 0.04 mg Iron: 0.002 mgI have to admit, I had never made cake pops before but I was determined to make them for our gender reveal party. I’ve made Oreo truffles multiple times, which are somewhat similar to cake pops. Somewhat. They’re essentially the cookie version of cake pops. Basically dessert cousins. I figured, how hard could it be?

Now, I know mine aren’t 100% true cake pops– they’re basically cake balls with sticks in them, but people can still carry them around like cake pops. I mean, who wants messy hands? Anyway, I’ll tell you at the end of the post how to make them into legit cake pops with the cake portion at the top and the stick coming out the bottom.

Prepare a boxed cake mix as directed on the box. Let the cake cool completely. Wash your hands. Next, crumble the cake into fine crumbs with your hands in a large bowl. Mix in about 1/3 cup of icing (I used store bought milk chocolate) with your hands. The mixture should be dense but not gooey. Gooey cake balls gross me out. Grab a cookie scoop (I used my 1.5 T scoop, which I LOVE). (Remember, everyone needs a cookie scoop, or 3.) Then, scoop out the mixture, packing the cake mixture into the scoop as you scoop it (I smushed the open side of the cookie scoop against the inside of the bowl). Smush the mixture in your hand to pack it tightly into a ball. Roll it into a nicely shaped ball. Roll the remaining mixture into balls (my cake mix made 18 balls).

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Grab your Candy Melts (I purchased mine from JoAnn Fabric) and a small microwaveable dish (I used a small oatmeal bowl). Put about 5 morsels into the bowl and melt them in the microwave. Next, grab your cake pop sticks (I purchased mine from JoAnn Fabric). Dip your stick into the melted Candy Melt and quickly stick it into a cake pop at least half way down. Repeat with remaining cake pops. Then, set pops on a cookie tray. Freeze for about 15 minutes (they wouldn’t fit in my freezer so I put them in the fridge for 30 minutes– worked fine). Put your Candy Melts into a microwaveable mug (I filled mine to the top). Next, melt the Candy Melts as directed on the package. Dip the cake pop into the mug, evenly coating it. Let the coating drip off. Place the pop on cookie sheet. Finally, if using sprinkles, add immediately before coating sets. Repeat for remaining pops.

These may seem like a lot a work, but trust me, once you have it all mapped out it’s a breeze. I spent maybe an hour on these (not including baking and cooling times).

If you want your cake pops to be true cake pops, rather than cake balls with sticks in them, instead of putting them on a cookie sheet to dry, insert the stick into Styrofoam for the coating to set. I wanted mine to sit on the platter but still be pops, so that’s why I went the route I did.

How To Make Cake Pops: A Step By Step Tutorial

FYI, the Candy Melt coating is really good. I used chocolate cake and you barely tell there’s dark cake underneath the coating. Just thought I’d throw that out there.

Note: Candy Melts come in a wide array of colors. But if you don’t spot a color you need, you can use gel food coloring. Do not use food coloring drops.

Step by step instructions on how to make cake pops! Learn some tricks on how to accomplish delicious and eye-catching cake pops!These Blue Cake Pops are the perfect sweet treat for a baby shower, space-themed birthday party, or any time you need a grab-and-go dessert!

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Today, I asked her to come share with you her tips for making adorably and ridiculously perfect cake pops. You can check out more from Cathy at Cathyology, where she blogs about everything from justice to faith to motherhood to gardening. I hope you enjoy her as much as I do!

My beloved friend Courtney and I have been thinking of the many ways we are alike. We’re both committed to social justice, particularly as it pertains to our neighborhood, and we live within a few blocks of each other.

At our respective non-profit full-time jobs, we’ve collaborated on events and campaigns and I genuinely love working with this chic. Her heart beats to see mercy and peace and joy throughout our community and her heart breaks for injustices against our neighbors. She has a gift for seeing the positive in difficult situations, and she’s quite the mover when construction crews threaten an event.

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But of course, this is mostly a food blog, so let’s get down to it… we are both in love with all baked goods and the process that produces them.

There is a major difference between us, though. She loves to bake goodies that are ready to eat fresh out of the oven–things like Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies or Blackberry Peach Cobbler—

I, however, am drawn to items that allow me to unite my creative side with my obsessive compulsive need to make things “just so”. I want to carve, color, swirl, pipe, and sprinkle.

Make This Easy 4th Of July Cake Pops Recipe

A baby shower is the perfect place to display pretty, graceful, fun treats. These cake pops were for a baby boy, so ALL things were blue, down to the mom and aunt’s pedicures. I was charged with making delightful cake pops for a classy event.

With everyone else going all out on the blue-theme, I decided to do the same for the cake pops. I used a white cake dyed with blue food coloring for the centers, and dipped them in white chocolate dyed a deep navy blue.

Cake pops are fun and easy. I’m typically an all-things-from-scratch kind of mom. I want to know what is in my cake and be able to pronounce all the ingredients.

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HOWEVER, cake pops don’t work well with most from-scratch cakes. So, trek over to your favorite baking aisle and venture into the box-mix section. And don’t flee too quickly, you’ll also need canned frosting! Here’s the full list of supplies:

I’ve made a lot of cake pops and learned some things along the way. Here are some tips to make the best cake pops:

1 cake mix makes about 2 dozen balls, using a Tablespoon size cookie scoop. You can easily double the recipe if you’d like to make more cake pops.

Tricks To Make Cake Pops More Easily

Find a way to keep the cake pops upright and separated after dipping. You can poke them into a styrofoam block, a cardboard box, an egg carton, or stand them up in a juice glass. For this cake pop display, I’ve used concentric styrofoam circles glued together and decorated with