Rolling Perfect Cake Pops

Ingredients 2 8 inch baked and cooled cake rounds any flavor 1 2 cup icing any flavor 3 12 ounce bags of chocolate candy wafers assorted colors vegetable shortening sprinkles and decorations assorted colors 20 30 skinny wooden lollipop sticks large foam board.

Rolling perfect cake pops.

Rolling cake pops to be the same shape and size consistently can be a challenge without the right tools. You can find. Made out of food safe plastic and designed to be interchangeable the easy roller comes standard with a 1 25 inch insert which allows you to roll twenty one cake balls at a time all the same size weight and shape. Once your cake is cool crumble it very fine.

It is all metal and easy to clean. Once you feel good about your crumble job it s time to add the frosting. Use a cookie scoop to measure cake pops equally each time. 1boxcake mix of your choice 1boxinstant pudding mix if you re using a chocolate cake mix use chocolate instant pudding mix 4eggs 1cupwater cupvegetable oil cupwilton creamy white decorator frosting or buttercream frostingor chocolate decorator frosting for chocolate pops 1bagwilton.

4 shape into 1 1 2 inch balls. A proper cake pop mixture will be surprisingly dry. I find that if i use my norpro cookie scoop my cake pops are are the same size and they are already 75 rolled. In this video i am using a medium oxo cookie scoop to measure out my cake balls and then using the smash and roll technique.

Cake pop stand or styrofoam block for drying. The key to this is to move fast with lots of pressure. Add powdered sugar if needed and chocolate chips. This is another great tool especially if the cake mix just won t come together and keeps crumbling.

When rolling round cake balls the perfect size is about 1 25 wide. I love my norpro cookie scoop. Sweet creations cake pop press. You re aiming for a mixture that molds like firm playdough and feels dry to the touch.

I like to cut the cake into sections and take one. After you have rolled the cake balls in the palm of your hands it might not be an exact circle a good trick is to use the tablespoon or ice cream scoop to shape the cake pop into a smooth circle. The wilton cookie scoop is a bit larger but for 3 you can t go wrong. For a 9 13 cake add 3 4 of a.

How to make cake pops 2 crumble the cake. Crumble cooled cake a food processor works best for this job. I suggest using a stainless steel coffee spoon or medium cookie scoop to perfectly portion out your cake pop dough.