The perfect back to school treat!

We had the girls, Jenna Lawless and Lauren Ewald from Top Town Treats come teach a cake pop class at Sweet!.

Supplies for Apple Shaped Cake Pops

1 box cake mix, prepared according to package directions

1 can prepared frosting

red candy coating (1 pound dips 35 to 40 balls)

sucker sticks

pretzels sticks

green tic tacs

cookie scoop

How To Make Apple Shaped Cake Pops

Bake your favorite cake in a 9″ X 13″ pan. Trim outside edges and the top and bottom to remove any dark dry pieces of cake. This step is really important if you are using a light colored cake.

Cut cake into squares. Rub two squares of cake together crumbling the cake into a bowl.  Mix about a half to 3/4 of a can of pre-made frosting into the crumbled cake, a couple tablespoons at a time. The mixture should stick together when pressed together in your hand, but not be sticky.  Be careful to not over mix the crumbled caked or it will take on the consistency of raw cookie dough.

Using a cookie scoop, measure out uniform balls. Gently roll mixture into smooth uniform shapes. Refrigerate balls overnight (at least a couple of hours), or 20 minutes in the freezer.  (Don’t leave the cake balls in the freezer too long because the candy coating will crack as it dries once they are dipped). This will make 35-4o balls.

Melt candy coating in the microwave at 15 second intervals, stirring each time.  Be careful not to get the candy coating too hot because it will get thick.  Remove only a few balls from the refrigerator at a time.  Dip sucker stick into the candy coating and then stick into the ball. The stick can be placed just past the center of the ball. Sometimes the cake balls get flat on the bottom while cooling. Place the stick in that location.

Allow candy coating to dry.

Dip cake pop into the red candy coating. Do not stir or twirl! Rock the cake pop back and forth.

Cradle the stick in one hand and tap stick firmly with other hand to remove excess candy coating.

Before the candy coating dries add a broken piece of pretzel for the stem and a green tic tac for the leaf. Place sticks in styrofoam or a pre-drilled wood block and allow cake pops to dry.

Fill a container with floral foam and some paper shreds, add the cake pops and you have a perfect teacher gift.


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Comments

  1. Luckily I have just discovered this great website. These apple cake pops are amazing, and a great gift to pass out to my neighbors with children as Halloween time draws close.
    THANK YOU.

  2. These are so cute! I’m sure I’ll never get around to making them, but I am totally wishing I would. They are adorable. Thanks for sharing!

    Jess @
    tupelocreative

  3. I took these treats to a first grade class for Johnny Appleseed week. I ended up using Green Apple jelly beans for the leaves. The candy coating didn’t seem thin enough but I was afraid to try and thin it out. Most of them turned out pretty cute!

  4. At our school we always consider the source before eating, but generally something cute like this means it came from someplace I’d trust!

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