And sometimes everything is just rainbows and butterflies! These fun colorful cake pops are so tasty and of course made from scratch!
I have to say it like it is, this batch of cake pops is the best I have made yet. They have just the right sweetness and texture. I will show you step by step how to make them.
Ingredients
- 1 of Martha Stewart’s Golden Sheet Cakes, cut the recipe in half as it makes two cakes (best tasting yellow sheet cake ever)
- 3/4 cups of powdered sugar
- 180 grams of cream cheese
- gel food color (red, blue, green, yellow)
- 200g white chocolate or candy melts in your desired color
- Styrofoam board
- cake pop sticks or paper straws
- assorted sprinkles
Method
1. Make the sheet cake and let cool completely, cut in half and use the other part for something else (I literally had it plain instead of breakfast, so good!).
2. Crumble up the sheet cake in a large bowl. Cream together the powdered sugar and cream cheese in a separate bowl.
3. Get out 7 small bowls. Divide the cake pops mix among the bowls in such way:
2 bowls with 5% of the dough (each),
2 bowls with 10% of the dough (each),
2 bowls with 20% of the dough (each) and
one bowl with 30% of the dough.
We will need a lot of dough to make green and just a little to make the red and purple. Do you follow my math? (ok, it’s not my math, it’s the hubby’s because I got stuck after drawing out different sized circles on a piece of paper π )
4. Add the food color: red = red, orange = one part red + one part yellow, yellow = yellow, green = green, blue = blue, indigo = 2 parts blue + 1 part red, purple = one part blue = one part red
5. With your hands make each colored cake pop dough ball, mesh and fold until you have an even mass (it’s like play dough).
6. Then take small amounts of each color using the percent ratio from earlier (red and purple should be pea sized). See below!
7. Stack the colors in your hands in order of the rainbow and squeeze them together. Then start rolling gently to make a ball.
8. Place each ball purple side down on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Melt a few pieces of the white chocolate in the microwave (ca. 30 seconds), then dip the cake pop stick into the chocolate and gently insert it into your rainbow ball. Let the chocolate harden in a cool place.
9. Melt all of your white chocolate in the microwave, stirring in between. Add food color of your choice and blend with a teaspoon until you have the desired color. Add a 1 tsp. of vegetable oil if you find that your mixture is not runny enough. Dip the cake pops into the chocolate, tapping of excess chocolate (I also use the teaspoon to help the excess come off).
10. Poke the chocolate dipped cake pop into a Styrofoam board to dry. Repeat. After you have dipped about 3 cake pops the first pop will be ready for sprinklege (it’s a technical term I just made up ;)).
11. Let dry completely in a cool place. Eat.
You can even take your rainbow outside! Spring is here!
Hugs
Dani!
Janina * kleinstyle says
Hey Dani!
What can I say…. They look wonderful! I love coke pops! (Honestly, who doesn’t?!)
But I never made them with more than one colour! Lovely idea the rainbow touch…
Which chocolate melts do you use?! I find it kinda hard with the Wilton ones, since the melted texture is still so thick. What are your experiences?!
geets, Janina
Dani says
Hi Janina, I used plain white chocolate and colored it with gel (or powder) food color, because I think the Wilton stuff is too expensive π you can always thin out the chocolate by adding a bit of vegetable oil π
Happy says
Hi Dani,
Thanks for sharing your home made candy melts. I live in Switzerland and don’t know where to get this candy melts. So thankful I bump on you βΊοΈ Its very helpful. Otherwise for what you said we can add vegetable oil to make the chocolate thinner how much (quantity ) of oil do we need for 200g of white chocolate ? Thanks so much
Happy
Sonja A. says
Soo stinking cute! π Great job, Dani!
Dani says
Thank you Sonja, you know me, I try to live up to the name π
Michele says
Due to them having cream cheese do they need to be refrigerated?
Thanks
Michele
Dani says
Hi Michele, you can leave the cake pops out for the party and they will be fine for a few hours. If you have left overs store them in the fridge or a cool place like the basement. π Hope this helps!
Michele says
It does, thank you so much!!!!
Dani says
Perfect π
Nicole says
So I made this recipe today or attempted to, and had several problems. When I separated the dough into all the proportions, by the time I got to the green there was only enough dough for 3 cake pops. The green obviously determines how many you can make, and 3 is not a lot considering how much of the other colors I had. Also when putting together all the colors I realized that the proportions created a HUGE cake ball. It worked for dying but not for the second time you divide the dough. So then, I had to separate the dough into smaller pieces so that there were more cake pops. After attempting to dip them the dough was so greasy that it kept falling off the stick. So I had to do cake BALLS instead of cake POPS. Loved the idea, they taste good, but there were flaws in the process and it was overall pretty disappointing and time consuming.
Dani says
Nicole, kudos for trying this very work intense recipe π They key is definitely to start with very small colorful “pebbles” which later assemble a ping pong ball sized cake pop. The first one I made was the size of a fist…lol…too big for a stick. To keep the cake ball firm put it in the freezer for a little while until the butter has set again, then insert the sticks and if you want to, let them cool in the fridge until they are ready to be dipped. I also ran out of one color before the other and ended up making rainbow marbled cake pops with the colors I had left (also easier to keep the cake pop small this way). Hope this helps and thank so much for your feedback!
Karen says
Hi Dani,
Love your rainbow cake pops and like your idea of making your own candy melts! Questions: I got confused with the icing/gel/paste coloring, which one should I use for cake pop and can you suggest where should I order from, I live in Spain.
Thanks!
Karen
Dani says
Hi Karen, I used the Betty Crocker Gel Food Color http://www.bettycrocker.com/products/dessert-decorating-products/products/gel-food-colors/classic-gel-food-colors that works well for coloring “cake pop dough” as well as coloring the melted white chocolate. For the candy melts try using white bakers chocolate (couverture). You could probably order the food color through a UK site like this ebay shop: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/beckys-treasures4u/Food-Coloring-/_i.html?_fsub=19938208 and have them ship it to EspaΓ±a π
Karen says
Thanks very much, Dani! Really appreciate your prompt reply and suggestions!