I love making cake pops!! I make them for birthdays, holidays, baby and wedding showers, sports games…really any occasion where I want to add a treat and a pop of color. I made these to go with the kids’ Valentines this year. They are fun and easy and super cute!

I get asked a lot from friends if they are hard to make – my answer: each step really takes 10-20 min. so the process can be broken down. The boys love to help me cook too which makes it all the more fun! I cooked them in my Babycakes cake pop maker which is similar to a waffle iron. You can even make a bunch and freeze them to decorate later.

Here’s a little video of the process. Some of the neighbor kids came over to help us decorate!

I’ll start you off with the Babycakes recipe that comes with the cake pop maker. I have tried many recipes and have found this simple vanilla recipe to be the best!

How to make

Step 1: Baking the cake pops

Here I am with the boys team! Logan, Owen & Kellen – ready to go!

Ingredients out & ready to go! I like to use my OXO containers for sugar, flour & all sorts of other things labeled (of course) with vinyl from my silhouette machine!

The boys have fun reading the recipe and helping me to scoop out the ingredients…

in a small bowl we combined flour and baking soda and set aside.

In the mixing bowl we combined the butter (which I like to leave out of the refrigerator for an hour before to soften) with the eggs, sugar and vanilla. Then we added a bit of the flour mixture in alternating with the milk going back and forth and ending with the flour mixture.

When the batter was made, we used a small cookie scoop to fill in the mold of the cake pop maker. This time the batter was a bit runny, but it all worked out. I usually fill them almost to the top.

I also use a toothpick to go around the edges as I take them out so they turn out round.

As you can see in the video – I like to add a bit of coconut oil to the candy melts to make a runny consistency – I melt them in the microwave 2 min.

Then I like to dip the sticks in the candy melts first then stick them in the pops.

I freeze them for 5 min. This is an added step to make sure the cake pops adhere to the sticks.

Step 2: Decorating!

Usually I allow the cake pops to cool over night and the next day we get to do the real fun…decorating!! Here’s the cake pop crew!

Candy melts come in all sorts of colors – so I just pick a few colors and sprinkles that match my

theme.

I fill a small bowl with some candy melts and add a dab of coconut oil. Then I microwave this for 2 min. When it comes out, I stir it & it’s ready to go! The kids had a lot of fun helping!!

These round cake pop racks work really well to separate them and allows them to dry without touching each other.

mmmmm good!

Step 3: Wrapping them up fancy

The next thing I like to do is to put them in little bags with a ribbon or twine around them. This keeps them fresh longer and just makes them easier to transfer.