Using Donut Holes For Cake Pops

With this donut hole cake pop recipe all you have to do is melt the chocolate, dip, and decorate to your liking! Easily match them to the theme of baby showers, holidays, seasons, or birthday parties.

These pretty donut hole cake pops are made with store-bought donut holes dipped in white chocolate. They’re quick and easy to make and will be ready to be served at your party in no time!

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With this donut hole cake pop recipe all you have to do is melt the chocolate, dip, and decorate to your liking!

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While we love traditional cake pops and cake balls, these recipes require baking a cake, crumbling it, forming the balls, etc. which can take you anywhere from an hour or two from start to finish. Using store-bought donut holes moves the process along a lot faster, and they taste just as good with sweet little donut holes as the base.

CHOCOLATE – We used white chocolate but you can also use dark or milk chocolate for the coating. I always recommend the Ghiradelli brand of melting wafers, but Wilton candy melts, baking chocolate, or almond bark will do the trick as well. To melt chocolate you can use either a double boiler or a small saucepan with a glass bowl over the top.

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Though it’s entirely possible to use chocolate chips for this recipe, I wouldn’t recommend it. Chocolate chips do not melt as well and people tend to seize up the chocolate when they try to melt them. Try almond bark or baking chocolate (bars of chocolate) if you’d like to substitute the melting wafers.

Store at room temperature in either an air-tight container or covered with plastic wrap for 2-3 days. These cake pops are best enjoyed after 1-2 days of making them. Do not store in the freezer or refrigerator, this will cause the chocolate to sweat when it’s brought back to room temperature, which in turn will melt the sprinkles and cause color-bleeding.

Yes, you can make them up to 24 hours in advance and store them in an air-tight container or covered with plastic wrap. I wouldn’t make them any further in advance than that as they’re best enjoyed when fresh (1-2 days). If you have an event in the evening, make them the morning of. After all, they only take about 20 minutes to make!

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The versatility of these donut hole cake pops is endless. Ours are decorated for spring/Easter, but you can decorate them to match any party theme, holiday, baby shower, or for each season by using color coordinating candy wafers and sprinkles.

Serve fresh at room temperature. You can cover them in cellophane for gift giving or to use as party favors – this is a good cake pop set to use for that.

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Serving: 1 cake pop | Calories: 162 cal | Carbohydrates: 13 g | Protein: 1 g | Fat: 7 g | Saturated Fat: 4 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2 g | Cholesterol: 5 mg | Sodium: 20 mg | Potassium: 63 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 13 g | Vitamin A: 7 IU | Vitamin C: 1 mg | Calcium: 44 mg | Iron: 1 mg

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Amanda Davis is the entrepreneurial mom of four grown children and four step children. She and her husband, Chef Antoine, love to cook together creating recipes for this blog. Amanda also make kid's crafts and creates decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years. She is also a craft book author five times over and product developer as well as the owner of FunFamilyCrafts.com. You can find her on social media by using the buttons to the left!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!

Donut Hole Cake Pops Story

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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