Cake pop

A cake pop is a form of cake styled as a lollipop. Cake crumbs are mixed with icing or chocolate, and formed into small spheres or cubes in the same way as cake balls, before being given a coating of icing, chocolate or other decorations and attached to lollipop sticks. [1] Cake pops can be a way of using up leftover cake or cake crumbs.

"Pop cake" redirects here. For the type of cake that someone pops out of, see Pop out cake.
Cake pop
Chocolate cake pops with sprinkles.
Place of originUnited States of America
Main ingredientsCake crumbs, icing or chocolate

The cake pop increased in popularity between 2009 and 2011.[2]

Preparation

Cake pops use many of the ingredients used in baking a traditional cake and can be made from cakes of any flavor.

Many recipes found online use a cake mix instead of a cake batter from scratch. While more convenient, it doesn't necessarily deliver the same result. The from scratch cake recipes yield cake that tends to be denser than store-bought mixes, performing better especially after mixed with homemade frosting. The denser cake is stiffer, making it easier to shape the balls and attach the sticks. Store bought mix yields a lighter cake that doesn't harden as much, and the sticks tend to slip out after attached.

Once the cake has been baked, or when leftovers from an existing cake have been collected, it is crumbled into pieces. These crumbs are mixed into a bowl of frosting and the resulting mixture is shaped into balls, cubes or other shapes. Each ball is attached to a lollipop stick dipped in melted chocolate, and put in the fridge to chill. Once the mixture solidifies, it is dipped in melted chocolate to form a hard shell, and decorated with sprinkles or decorative sugars. The cake balls can be frozen to speed the solidification process.

Most of the time making a cake pop is spent on shaping the cake into a desirable form and decorating it. Simple shapes such as spheres can be molded by hands, but complex shapes require tools. Silicone molding pan and cookie cutters are popular tools used in shaping cake pops.

See also

References
  1. Bakes, Molly (2012). Cake Pops. Random House. ISBN 9781446484586.
  2. Burrell, Jackie (2011-12-21). "A la Carte: Cake Pops Kit". The Mercury News. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
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