I absolutely love Skip To My Lou, and I’m so honored to be able to share this tutorial for my sweetheart cake pops with all you fantastic peeps. These cake pops are so simple to create and make the perfect little bite sized dessert for your Valentines Day celebration.

These cuties are so easy to make! All you need is cake, icing, lollipop sticks, candy melts and a little heart cookie cutter (mine is about 1.5 inches).

First step, mix cake and icing. If you have never made cake pops before you’ll need to play around with the amount of icing you add to the cake. I wish I had an exact measurement, but I don’t. I add my icing, little by little, until I reach the consistency of play doh (meaning you can play with it).

and cut out your hearts…

Dip your lollipop stick into melted candy melts and then insert into the heart. (The candy melts help the cake to stay on the stick)

Now pop these suckers into the freezer for about 30 minutes to firm up.30 minutes later…

Its showtime!!!!
Add a generous dollop of shortening to your candy melts and microwave your candy in 30 second intervals until melted. (the shortening helps thin the chocolate making it easier to cover)Once your candy and shortening is melted and mixed together its time to dip that sucker!!!
BEAUTIFUL!!! Now, set your heart pop on waxed paper to dry. Once dry you can eat them, gift them or just look at them (and even take a few pictures b/c you’re so proud of how cute they turned out). These little heart containers (they’re found all over the place in the Valentines Day isle) are the perfect size for these little treats!

You can check out the rest of the party below…  

Me and my crazy Olivia!

Everyone loves a homemade gift – especially when it’s edible! There is plenty of time before the holidays to package up one of these tasty treats. Your friends and family will love you!

Red Velvet Cake in a jar – are you kidding?!  Wow, who would not love this treat from My Cakies? So pretty too.

drooling. 

For the chocolate lover on your list, here is a great little cocoa mix from MyRecipes.com.

Real Simple shares a BBQ Rub. It’s a perfect idea for your favorite grill-master.

Look at this beautiful Chocolate/Orange Shortbread Cookie to share.  Oprah.com has easy directions for this fun gift.

If you need more inspiration take a look at some of my favorite edible gifts or check out my handmade gift guide below….

All you do is print off the bunny cupcake wrapper, cut it out  and fasten with glue stick.

Bunny Cupcake Wrapper Black Face

Bunny Cupcake Wrapper Colored Face

Candy Ears

I used the same technique as I did for the Easter basket Cupcake. This time I used almond bark from the grocery store and a few pink colored candy coating discs.

The ears would also be cute made with sugar cookies!

You might also like these free Easter Printables:

Bunny Treat Bags, Bunny Napkin Rings and Bunny Egg Holders

Easter Printable Cupcake toppers

The marshmallow Peep is sitting on green apple ‘candy grass’ that I found in the Easter section at Wal-Mart.  It is distributed by Galerie in Hebron, Kentucky. www.galerieusa.com 1-859-538-8500. My son said it tastes like styrofoam –(now how do you think he knows this?) I will agree with him that it didn’t taste good. 

Roll frosted cupcakes in a chocolaty cereal (leave a little space around the edge of the cupcake for the petals), pipe on some petals with a star tip and then very carefully decorate a red M&M to look like a lady bug. To make clean-up easier I attach my decorating tip to the corner of a ziploc bag. For the ladybug I cut the tiniest tip off the corner of the bag. I used a little melted chocolate almond bark for the ladybug details, but frosting would work also. Cupcakes adapted from Ladies Home Journal.

You can see last years celebration cake here along with links to Kansas coloring pages.

You might also be interested in these sunflower cupcake toppers!

Have a happy day!