For a bite-sized dessert treat, small cake and frosting balls are encased in a hard shell and completed with a sucker stick.
| Prep Time: | 1 hr |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Additional Time: | 45 mins |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 15 mins |
| Servings: | 30 |
| Yield: | 30 pops |
Ingredients
- 1 (15.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
- 1 cup water
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 (16 ounce) container prepared vanilla frosting
- ¼ cup multicolored candy sprinkles, or as needed (Optional)
- 1 (24 ounce) package vanilla almond bark, or as needed
- 1 package paper lollipop sticks
- 1 12×12-inch block of styrofoam
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease bottom of a 9×13-inch baking pan. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Beat cake mix, water, eggs, and vegetable oil in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed until cake mix is moistened, 30 seconds. Increase speed to medium and beat until batter is thoroughly combined, 2 minutes. Pour into prepared baking pan.
- Bake cake in the preheated oven until the top is lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool in pan for 10 minutes before removing from pan to finish cooling.
- Crumble cake into a large bowl and mix crumbs with vanilla frosting. Pinch off about 2 tablespoons of cake crumb mixture and roll into a ball about 1 inch in diameter. Repeat with remaining cake mixture. Place cake balls onto parchment paper-lined baking sheet and freeze for 15 minutes.
- Pour candy sprinkles into a bowl.
- Melt 4 blocks of vanilla almond bark in a small saucepan over low heat and stir until coating is melted and smooth. Insert a lollipop stick into a cake ball and slowly and carefully dip the cake ball into the melted coating, spinning the cake ball slightly to get an even, smooth coat. Cover the entire ball and about 1/4 inch of the lollipop stick where it meets the ball. Repeat dipping remaining cake balls, melting additional coating as you work.
- Decorate each cake ball with candy sprinkles by dipping or applying as desired; place lollipop handles into styrofoam block and let coating harden. Work quickly; coating will set in a minute or so.
- I recently made these with my 8-year-old for Christmas, and made little snowmen. She LOVED decorating them. Some fun toppings to use are crushed peanuts or peanut butter cups, or small chocolate candies.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 291 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 35 g |
| Cholesterol | 24 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 150 mg |
| Sugars | 30 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This recipe was great and delicious! One thing I would say is that it does not stay on the sticks. I tried everything including putting frosting on the stick and freezing it more. It would fall off. If you make them into cake balls and don’t put a stick in it it’s easier to make and eat! I love this recipe and would totally make it again!
It was great but it did not turn out exactly as we had planned. We did leave out the frosting so it was a little unique to say the least. Still yummy though.
I made this but used confetti cake and I have to throw them out and try a different approach. Maybe I shoulda stuck with yellow cake. They were too soft and just fell off the sticks.
These turned out great! The only thing I would do different next time would be to keep the cake pops in the freezer for 45 minutes instead of 15. When the cake pops were dipped in the melted bark the first time, it fell apart.
Mine turned put terrible.but I blame myself..I’m just not good at making cake pops. I’d say thus is the most traditional recipe for making can pops but mine fall off the stick and my chocolate never melts smooth enough to get a nice coat. I also refrigerated my dough before rolling into balls because it just wouldn’t roll well.
1 star for creativity and 1 for effort Other than that these are a pain in neck and elsewhere to make. The taste of the cake was soggy, grainy, and looked unappealing. Then everyone has an opinion.
Made vanilla cake and homemade vanilla frosting with chocolate bark and rainbow sprinkles. I would add less frosting to the cake crumb next time. It was a little too moist. Otherwise AMAZING
Good basic recipe but they turn out way too sweet and I like sweet things. I read a blog that said add frosting to your liking and look for the consistency of a dough that sticks together and rolls nicely. I tried that – half a can worked perfectly – and was delicious.
This did not work for me at all!
Fantastic and easy!
This is a great cake pop recipe and it’s what I use every time. I use different flavors though. Red velvet cake + cream cheese icing is my fav!
My 8 yr old liked the taste. However, we made these on a hot day so we should have left them in freezer, longer. They were falling apart in the warm white chocolate. We substituted white chocolate chips & melted in microwave. You have to immediately decorate because the chocolate sets (hardens).
Worked great!