Quoting fineyouguyswin:
There ate lots of ladies in here that do them :9) hope they can help
I have made tons of cake pops (and cake balls)! My family loves them, and I have gotten a few orders from others as well.
I don't think there is any way to decorate them with regular icing..that would be super messy. When decorating with sprinkles, you put the sprinkles on immediately after you dip them in chocolate. The sprinkles won't stick if the chocolate has hardened.
There are some really good tutorials online about how to dip them and how to get a smooth look to the coating on them.
Some tips that I could give you based on personal experience...
Add some Crisco shortening to the chocolate or candy melts to help make the coating smooth.
Make sure to get a lot of the excess chocolate coating off of the cake pops before decorating...if there is too much chocolate on it will all run down the stick and make a mess. LOL.
I wouldn't roll the cake pops in sprinkles..just sprinkle it on from above..it sticks really well while the chocolate is still "wet".
You can also decorate the cake pops by drizzling a different color on top (you need to let the chocolate coating on the cake pop harden before doing this. )This is done easily if you melt some candy melts or chocolate in a ziploc bag in the microwave. Cut a very small hole in the tip, and pipe the drizzle design onto the cake pop.
Here are a few pics of some that I have done.
These below aren't on sticks, but I wanted to show you another way that I decorate them sometimes. If you look at the red and green ones toward the right side of the picture, you can see the swirl design. To make these, I just used a spoon to generously drizzle both red and green melted candy melts onto the cake pop. Then I tapped it against the side of a bowl and twirled it around as I was tapping to slightly combine the colors. It gave it a really cool marbled effect.
Quoting 1busymomma03:I have made tons of cake pops (and cake balls)! My family loves them, and I have gotten a few orders from others as well.
I don't think there is any way to decorate them with regular icing..that would be super messy. When decorating with sprinkles, you put the sprinkles on immediately after you dip them in chocolate. The sprinkles won't stick if the chocolate has hardened.
There are some really good tutorials online about how to dip them and how to get a smooth look to the coating on them.
Some tips that I could give you based on personal experience...
Add some Crisco shortening to the chocolate or candy melts to help make the coating smooth.
Make sure to get a lot of the excess chocolate coating off of the cake pops before decorating...if there is too much chocolate on it will all run down the stick and make a mess. LOL.
I wouldn't roll the cake pops in sprinkles..just sprinkle it on from above..it sticks really well while the chocolate is still "wet".
You can also decorate the cake pops by drizzling a different color on top (you need to let the chocolate coating on the cake pop harden before doing this. )This is done easily if you melt some candy melts or chocolate in a ziploc bag in the microwave. Cut a very small hole in the tip, and pipe the drizzle design onto the cake pop.
Here are a few pics of some that I have done.
These below aren't on sticks, but I wanted to show you another way that I decorate them sometimes. If you look at the red and green ones toward the right side of the picture, you can see the swirl design. To make these, I just used a spoon to generously drizzle both red and green melted candy melts onto the cake pop. Then I tapped it against the side of a bowl and twirled it around as I was tapping to slightly combine the colors. It gave it a really cool marbled effect.
Toffee Oat Cookies! So delish!!!!
- LoveMyBoyK
on Mar. 21, 2012 at 1:12 PM