This year for the 4th
of July I wanted something festive for me and my daughter to do together. I
wanted it to be cute enough to bring to our family party and to give to my
co-workers but it also had to be easy enough for a 4 year old to help with. So
I searched the internet for different ideas and discovered the cake pop. After
checking out several cake pop recipes online, and got the basics of making them
I decided it was the perfect project!!!!!
A trip to Hobby Lobby, Wal-Mart and $20 dollars later (My
mom had the food dyes and a white cake mix already so I didn’t have to buy
that. I kinda “borrowed” it) we were ready!!! Karli really enjoyed mixing the
dye into the cake mix and icing, but I think she liked to eat it more than
anything else, and of course putting on the sprinkles. The biggest problem I
had with making these was they wanted to fall apart when I dipped them so half of
them were not very pretty (but tasted just as good).
There are limitless ways to decorate these yummy treats but
I got my ideas from good ol’ google (Google is my best friend I google
everything J)
We used white cake mix and icing dyed red and blue, dipped in red and blue candy melts and decorated in
sprinkles……I bet you can guess what color….. yep red and blue. We made an
American Flag for our family get together and a cake pop bouquet for my
co-workers.
This project was quite messy but completely worth it. I
would definitely do it again (maybe around Christmas when I forget how much of
a mess it was).
Directions and Little Tips
1.
Bake a cake (just follow instructions on box)
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Litte Tip- I
made cupcakes because I wanted different colors and didn’t have enough
small cake pans…the downfall to this was there was too much crust and it made
it very hard to roll into balls
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I did 2 cake mixes I am glad I did because I
messed up a lot of them and clumsy me dropped some.
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You can dye them any color you like before you
bake it
2.
Crumble the cake mix into a big bowl
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Try to get out all the crust if you can
3.
Add icing and mix together by hand until it is
kinda like play dough
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Dye the icing to match the cake mix
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Little Tip-add small amounts of icing at a time
mix then add more some of mine were hard to roll because I put too much icing
4.
Roll into whatever size balls you want and put
on a tray covered in parchment paper
5.
Melt about a ¼ of a bag of candy melts dip ends
of lollypop sticks into it and stick it into the rolled pops
6.
Put in refrigerator to chill for an hour
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This is a good stopping point if you’re running
short on time
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I started late so I left mine over night and
finished the next day
7.
Dip them into your melted candy
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I would do only a few pops at a time leaving the
rest in the refrigerator because some of mine did fall apart and that may have
been the reason
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If you are making a bouquet stick them into a
piece of Styrofoam. I put mine back on the parchment paper except the ones I
was making a bouquet out of.
8.
Decorate!!!!!
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Before it hardens…. my first couple I let get
hard trying to rush
Sarah
I love the look of these cake pops from pops.emmaslunch.com
