Blueberry and Vanilla CAKE POPS
CAKE POPS RECIPE: made with vanilla cake, flavoured with blueberry frosting, dipped into melted white chocolate and sprinkled with homemade pink sanding sugar..
Click here for this recipe in Spanish!
Blueberry and Vanilla CAKE POPS
..but before we get to that.. I´ve been dying to know: HOW ARE YOU GUYS??
For this easy cake pop recipe I used defrosted vanilla cake that I had in the freezer (offcuts from a cake I baked about a month ago). I defrosted the cake in the fridge the night before and on the day I simply took it out of the sealed ziplock bag, threw it into my Kitchen Aid bowl and mixed it with my whick attachment until I had crumbs.
Blueberry and Vanilla Cake Pops
At this stage I added my blueberry preserve (make sure it contains 75% or more blueberries) and the rest of my frosting ingredients.. and the rest as they say was history – cake pop history – 🙂
Ingredients
- 4 cups vanilla cake crumbs
- 2 heaped tablespoons blueberry preserve (should contain 75% fruit or more)
- Few drops of blueberry extract (I used Lorann oils)
- 1/2 stick/57g/2 ounce butter (without salt at room temperature)
- 2 heaped tablespoons sifted icing sugar
- 250g melted white chocolate
- pink sanding sugar. See how to make it here
- cake pop sticks
Instructions
- Mix the first 5 ingredients together really well.
- Squeeze some of the mixture between your fingers, if it stays together it is ready.
- Roll balls with 1 tablespoon of mixture per cake ball.
- Leave to set for 20 minutes in the fridge.
- Dip your sticks into melted chocolate and then half way into the top centre part of your cake balls.
- Set further in the fridge for 2 hours.
- Dip into the melted white chocolate, shake off the excess lightly.
- Sprinkle with the sanding sugar by using a tablespoon.
- Leave in the fridge until ready to eat!
Some Tips when making Cake Pops:
- add small amounts of frosting at a time to your crumbs to make sure the mixture is not too “wet”
- make sure you don´t put the stick more than half way through the centre part of the cake pop as it might break
- before dipping into the chocolate make sure your cake pops have set completely in the fridge
- make sure the chocolate you use contains cocoa butter
- you can add a few drops of sunflower oil to your melted chocolate if it is too thick
- don´t add the sanding sugar/sprinkles unless all the excess chocolate has dripped off
Blueberry and Vanilla Cake Pops
In my last post – Valentines Day Cupcakes – I showed you guys how to make your own sanding sugar. So in this post I used it to decorate birthday cake pops for a 4 year old girl. What 4 year old would not love sparkly, diamond, pink cake pops for her birthday 🙂 I haven´t been “4” for decades but I still get excited about pink sparkly things.. that part of me has never left me.. and I hope it never does 🙂
Blueberry and Vanilla Cake Pops
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Happy baking guys!! Make life count.
Johlene
xoxo
I saw this on Mom Resource and I have been wanting to try a cake pop recipe! This is going to be it.
I LOVE the colors in the pics too 🙂 Thanks
Thanks so much for your comment Carissa – check out the tips in the post, if it´s your first time making them, as they canbe tricky 🙂
I’ve always wanted to make cake pops but never got around to it. I need to and I can’t wait to try out your recipe girl.
Kay of Pure & Complex
http://www.purecomplex.com
I hope you do Kay! They are the perfect size for a sweet treat! 🙂 Happy weekend!
Wow these cake pops look absolutely amazing! And I love that you used cake crumbs to make them. Will have to save this recipe for later because my skills are barely above making a boxed cake mix for now but I’m working on it…. Looks delicious though. Found via Moms Resource Blog Party
Hi Kristen! Thanks so much for your comment! If you can make box cake you can make any cake 🙂 Glad to have found you!
These look so good. I’m so glad I found this site through the mom’s reaource blog link-up! (http://www.momresource.com/mom-blogs-week1/) My daughter loves to bake and she will certainly love these. The photos are very well done.
I’ll head over and have my FB page like your FB page. Maybe they can be friends. 🙂
Thank you very much! I´m also glad I found you on the MomResource blog hop!
ps. I think I already liked your FB page, bit I´ll recheck again.. 🙂
Mine never come out this round!! They are gorgeous!
Ashley the trick is to make sure you don´t add too much frosting, that way you are able to shape them nicely and they stay in their ball shape. Also make sure they have been in the fridge for at least a hour (after adding the sticks) before you dip them into the chocolate.. and when you form them into the ball make sure you use only the very centre part of your palm – hope that helps! xoxo
These are so fun!! I really need to try making cake pops more often. Perfect for a little girl’s birthday party for sure!
Hi Rachel thanks so much for your comment on my blog! Cake Pops are really easy once you get the hang of them 🙂 xoxo
My inner 4-year old is squealing at these…so sparkly and fun! I feel like cake pops weren’t even invented when I was a kid, but if they had been, I would have adored them.
Lol! I know what you mean.. these Cake Pops took me back to when my parents bought me a Tinkerbell set for Christmas 🙂 xoxo
These cake pops are so cute, and I adore the blueberry and vanilla flavor! Thanks for stopping by my site!
You´re more than welcome Rachel 🙂 I´m glad you like these!! xoxo
Ok Johlene – that picture with the two cake pops in the jar? Just close that lid and send ’em to me, will you? Because they look delish! Pinned!
Thanks so much for pinning friend, I really appreciate it!! 🙂 xoxo
Thanks friend glad you like them! Once you make them a couple of times it gets easier 🙂 xoxo
Great tips, Johlene! I’ve never made cake pops but now I see where the problems could arise. Good info to know. And I love anything blueberry–these sound fantastic!