Cake Pops and Cake Truffles- Video Tutorial
By Popular Demand: Cake Pops & Cake Truffles! I hope that you enjoy this video on making these adorable, sweet treats!
In this video, I'm using plain (undoctored) cake from a cake mix. As mentioned in the video, the proportions of cake to frosting that I used were: 1 8" cake layer (½ of a cake mix) to 4 T frosting. This may vary depending on the kind of cake you are using.
For the chocolate coating: 4 T shortening combined with 14 oz. candy melts. Adjust to your liking!
I make cake pops all the time and almost every time I have half or a little less than half crack, I have tried everything from making sure the cake balls are not too cold and the melting chocolate is not too hot. put them in the fridge right after I dip them, honestly anything I can think of to stop the cracking but at least a few crack every time, its driving me nuts. I didn't know if anyone has a fool proof technique that I could try.
Thank you for showing this! My first attempt was not successful! I made the cake and frosting from scratch and they were too heavy and turned into cowpies! They tasted good but definitely not presentable. I never heard of adding the shortnening to the chocolate either. I learned so much by this video and I am going to try again! If I do them ahead of time do you know if you can freeze them?
Thank you for this video ;)
Can you use can icing that is the same ratio to what you used. Would parafan was work for thining your choclate?
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Hi Anita, yes, using caned frosting in the same ratio can be used. Yes you could use paraffin to thin.
I made my first cake pops a few weeks ago and mine turned out a bit like mushy balls, but a week later I tried again and this time they were perfect. what I did was make my own thick buttercream and my own cake, let the cake cool completely and then break it up in a food prosesser and made it into very fine bread crumb then at a tablespoon at a time I added the buttercream to the mix just enough for it to look like bread dough, I then broke off enough of the mix to make a ping pong ball and put on a baking tray, I made all the balls and put them in the fridge to harden and then coated them with chocolate Mmmm Yum Yum. You can add sprinkles to them or you can make them into different design you choose.
Hi ... I too would like to know what causes cracking. I always have a few that crack. Thanks!
Hello Melissa, I was wondering if u had any tips on how to make dora the explorer cake pops?
Hi Alicia--I'm sorry, I've never made Dora cake pops! Maybe you can use something like this cute picture from cutecakepops.blogspot.com for inspiration-
I would keep it simple--I think making the head wider as they did makes her look more cartoony and Dora-like.
http://cutecakepops.blogspot.com/2011/09/dora-cakepops.html
Hello what can I use to replace shortening. As i live in a french country and i'm not sure what their equivalent for shortening is.
i cant see this video