Description
Delightful festive treats made simple with moist cake crumbs mixed with frosting, dipped in colorful chocolate, and decorated for fun.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 baked cake (any flavor: vanilla, chocolate, or spice)
- 1 cup frosting (buttercream or cream cheese)
- 2 cups candy melts (red, green, white, chocolate)
- Sprinkles (holiday colors)
- 24 cake pop sticks
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil or shortening (for thinning melts)
- Optional: edible glitter, crushed candy cane
Instructions
- Crumble cooled cake into fine crumbs and mix with enough frosting to form a soft dough.
- Roll into small balls and chill for 20 minutes.
- Melt candy melts with a little coconut oil for smooth dipping.
- Dip each stick tip into melted chocolate, insert into cake balls, and chill again until firm.
- Dip cake pops fully into melted chocolate, letting excess drip off.
- Decorate immediately with sprinkles, drizzle, or edible glitter before coating sets.
- Stand upright in a styrofoam block or box of crumbs until completely hardened.
Notes
- Chill time is essential for firming up the cake pops.
- Use a variety of colors for a festive look.
- Experiment with different cake and frosting flavors.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No-bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cake pop
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 15mg