1. Use a styrofoam block to hold the pops after dipping. Attempting to hold it in a cup will make it dry and tilt sideways. Not very pretty.
2. Unless your making cake pops in the hundreds, I recommend melting the chocolate in a cup. A cup wide enough to fit the cake balls easily, and deep enough to cover the entire ball. A double boiler could be used, but I would probably be making hundreds for that method.
3. Dip the stick in some chocolate before pushing it into the ball. Allow it to cool in the refrigerator for at least 10 minutes. This will make dipping so much more easy!
4. While the cake pop is still wet after dipping, sprinkle on some confetti or sprinkles. If you're slow, the chocolate will dry and the sprinkles won't stick.
5. Leave some dipped cake pops blank. You can change chocolate colors afterwards and drizzle pretty lines all around.
6. Put melted chocolate in a piping bag or parchment paper bag and pipe beautiful designs. This gives you more control on how your cake pops will look if you hate drizzles.
7. I like using high cocoa chocolate. It melts better and dips wayyyy better. White chocolate is hard to work with, in my opinion. I would recommend using candy melts for colors pops not in brown and white.
8. Always shake off excess chocolate after dipping. It will dry better. Otherwise the extra chocolate will drip down the stick while drying.
9. If you have a helper, use her/him. After you dip the pop, hand the stick immediately to them. They can do sprinkles or poke it in the styrofoam for you, allowing you more time to dip more pops before the chocolate dries out.
10. If you don't have a cake pop holder to present your cake pops. Consider using the styrofoam block to carry your pops around. You can wrap the block in gift wrapping paper first. OR use mini cupcake liners and put each pop on a liner in a tray.
I hope these tips and tricks help you make beautiful cake pops!
If you don't know how to make cake pops, here is my previous blog on how to:
I've never made cake pops before, mostly because it just seems like so much work. Thanks for the tips. Now I think I can actually try to make some.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sad I've been missing your blog! You've made some great treats since I last visited. Cake pops are the best! It's so nice that you put together this list, saving the rest of us from having to figure it all out the hard way :)
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ReplyDeleteThis is a fantastic idea example of of not making a kid's food decorative and attractive. Colors are good specially The peachy pink is great.
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Thanks 4 the tips , cud u share how u got the marbled effect on the cake pops
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ReplyDeleteYou put two different candy melts in a bowl, swirl it a bit with a toothpick. Then dip your cake pop.
I can't seem to stop them from dripping - I dip, put in the holder, sprinkle and if i don't put them in the fridge fast, they drip everywhere... and I'm only to get 3 at a time done. What's your trick to such beautiful pops? I'm so frustrated. Is my candy dip too think you think?
ReplyDelete@Andrea I shake the excess chocolate off. Are you using candy melts? I never had a problem with dripping. After I dip, I hit the stick on the cup's rim a few times to shake the excess chocolate off. It dries pretty quickly, sometimes I don't even put enough sprinkles on them due to quick drying. I don't add oil/shortening to my dip at all. I just melt the candy melts and dip, shake a little, and sprinkle them.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great recipe! It look delicious and beautiful. Thanks for your sharing!
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