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Easter Cake Pops

EASY! FUN! and READY IN A FLASH!  These Easter Cake Pops are a SUPER SIMPLE Cake Pop Recipe

Enjoy them in all shapes and sizes for an Easter Desserts and you can use cake pop molds or without cake pop molds, your choice! 

White cake pops with rainbow sprinkles in a blue and white jar. Easter Eggs in foreground

Fun little Easter Cake Pops

Why This Recipe Works….

  • It’s EASY! 
  • Uses cake mix, chocolate melts and sprinkles. So FUN! 
  • Best Cake Pop Recipe Ever
  • Lots of variations you can try! 

Here’s How You Do It…

Step 1. 

Bake a Box Cake Mix According to the Directions. We like to use a Vanilla Cake so that we make a Vanilla Cake Pop Recipe!

9x13 pan with cake mix baked cake and bowl

Cake Mix White Cake

Step 2. 

Crumble up the Cake and mix it with a jar of cream cheese icing. Then put it all in the refrigerator and let it sit over night. 

Hand scraping cream cheese icing from can into bowl of crumbled cake.

Mix in the cream cheese icing to the crumbled up cake.

Step 3. 

Roll the cake mix into golf ball size balls and place onto popsicle sticks and set aside. 

caked mixed with icing rolling it into balls with sprinkles in background

Rolling the mix into small balls.

Step 4. 

Melt the chocolates in a microwave safe bowl on high in 30 second intervals. 

tray of melted white chocolate with spoon.

Melted Candy Quick for photo – but using melted chocolates is better!

Step 5. 

Roll the cake pops in the melted chocolate, covering well. Sprinkle with sprinkles of your choice and allow to cool. Use a specially designed stand OR do like I did and use an upside down egg carton to hold the cake pops! 

Dipping the Easter Cake Pops into the chocolate with sprinkles in background

Easter Cake Pops almost complete with dipping into chocolate!

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)

Are These Cake Pops Just For Easter? 

Absolutely NOT! While these are perfect Easter Desserts, they also work for ANY occasion where you just need a little nibble of delicious cake! 

Do I Need to Use a Cake Pop Mold? 

You CAN use a cake pop mold if you want. You’ll find those at most large retailers like WalMart or Target.

However,  you’ll do just as well making cake pops without a mold too! Simply use a small food scoop to make sure you have even amounts for each one. 

Can I Make Cake Pops Without a Stick?

Yes!  Of course you can! 

Simply cover them well with the melted chocolate and dry on a rack or piece of parchment paper and then dab a little chocolate on any spots that are missing a cover before serving. 

Can I Make Cake Pops With Leftover Cake? 

Yes!  Absolutely you can! If the cake has icing on it already then you will need to estimate the amount of cake relative to the amount of icing.

This recipe calls for one full cake recipe and one can of icing in a 1:1 ratio.

If you have half a cake left over and used a full can of icing on the cake, then you shouldn’t need to add any icing! 

Can I Make these Easter Cake Pops with Chocolate Cake? 

You KNOW it! Have fun with lots of different combinations of cake and icing. Just be sure to keep that 1:1 ratio of cake to icing! 1 Full Cake Recipes to 1 Jar of Icing.

Tips and Tricks for Easter  Cake Pop Recipe!

  • Be sure to refrigerate the cake and icing mixture. This firms up the mixture and makes it easier to roll into balls and for the balls to stay on the sticks! 
  • Use a small scoop to dip out the icing to ensure equal sized balls.
  • If you don’t have the sucker sticks to use, you can improvise with BBQ skewers (cut them into sucker length sticks and be sure to remove the sharp end).
  • It’s no problem at all if you can’t find the candy melts, instead use the quick melt chocolate! 
  • Don’t want to use a stick? That’s fine! These are the cutest little Easter Bon Bons without a stick! 
  • Once the chocolate is dry, you can cover with a small cellophane bag and tie with a cute ribbon! If you don’t have cellophane bags, a plain plastic sandwich bag works too! 
  • Candy Quick works for the outside shell too! Just understand that Candy Quick is thicker and heavier and will make the cake pops fall apart easier.
  • The Cake pops will WANT to fall apart while you are putting the outside shell on. Be very gentle with them. Make sure that the chocolate is as thin as possible. You might have to warm it back up to make it looser. Make sure that your cake filling is as cold as possible, this might mean that you stick it in the freezer for a short while to get colder. 

PRO TIP:  If you would like for the inside of your cake pop to be a colorful Easter color, use a little food coloring to make it a fun spring color! 

Supplies You Might Need…

These are the typical supplies you might need to make these wonderful little Easter Cake Pops. I used the sucker sticks. As I noted above, all of this is optional. These supplies will also be available at most large retailers in the party section. (Check Target and WalMart). 

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Bag of Sucker Sticks

Bag of sucker sticks

These are the sucker sticks. You can also use a BBQ skewer, cut into pieces. Be sure to remove the sharp end. You can also use popsicle sticks.

This is a cake pop mold. You can use a small food scoop instead. That works just fine too. cake pop mold in pink

This is a cake pop holder. Use it for a party or to allow the chocolate to dry on your cake pops. If using to dry the chocolate, an upside down egg carton works fine too. white ring cake pop holder

These are small bags to cover the cake pops when complete. You can also use small plastic sandwich bags. clear sucker bags with wire ties

If You Enjoyed This Recipe, You Might Also Enjoy…

Easter Strawberry Cake

Easy Cookie Bars

Easy Cherry Cobbler

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white jar with blue flowers holding 4 cake pops, eggs in background. white and green napkin underneath

Hello sunny cake pops!

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Easter Cake Pops

EASY and FUN!  Cute little Easter Cake Pop Recipe! Such an EASY Cake Pop Recipe that you won't believe you made something so cute! 
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake pops, Easter Cake Pop
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 293kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 Cake from box mix, prepared per box instructions
  • 8 oz cake icing Cream Cheese Variety is best
  • 1 bag melting chocolates
  • Candy sprinkles

Instructions

  • 24 Hours before you plan to make the cake pops, bake the cake per box instructions.  Once baked, crumble and mix well with the cake icing. Refrigerate until ready to make the cake pops. 
  • Remove the cake mixture from the refrigerator when ready to make the cake pops.  Using a small food scoop or cake pop mold, roll the cake pops into golf ball size pieces.  
  • Place a sucker stick in the bottom of each ball sticking it about half way through the ball.   Set these aside.
  • Melt the chocolates in a microwave safe bowl on high temp, stir every 30 seconds until completely melted.  
  • SPECIAL NOTE:  At this point, you will want to put something down under where the cake pops will set up.  The chocolate is drippy and sticks to surfaces.  Wax paper, parchment paper or newspaper underneath will work. 
  • Dip the cake pops into the chocolate to cover well.  Sprinkle with the sprinkles of your choice and allow to cool. 
  • If you have the cake pop holder that holds each cake pop separately, then do that. If not, turn an egg carton upside down and poke the sucker sticks through the styrofoam to hold them till dried.  
  • Once dried, you will want to cover the cake pop with a cover like a cellophane bag or plastic sandwich bag.  Tie with a cute ribbon. 

Notes

  • Be sure to refrigerate the cake and icing mixture.  This firms up the mixture and makes it easier to roll into balls and for the balls to stay on the sticks! 
  • Use a small scoop to dip out the icing to ensure equal sized balls.
  • If you don't have the sucker sticks to use, you can improvise with BBQ skewers (cut them into sucker length sticks and be sure to remove the sharp end).
  • It's no problem at all if you can't find the candy melts, instead use the quick melt chocolate! 
  • Don't want to use a stick?  That's fine!  These are the cutest little Easter Bon Bons without a stick! 
  • Once the chocolate is dry, you can cover with a small cellophane bag and tie with a cute ribbon! If you don't have cellophane bags, a plain plastic sandwich bag works too! 
  • Candy Quick works for the outside shell too!  Just understand that Candy Quick is thicker and heavier and will make the cake pops fall apart easier.  
  • The Cake pops will WANT to fall apart while you are putting the outside shell on.  Be very gentle with them.  Make sure that the chocolate is as thin as possible.  You might have to warm it back up to make it looser.  Make sure that your cake filling is as cold as possible, this might mean that you stick it in the freezer for a short while to get colder. 
  • SPECIAL NOTE:  You will have some individual fails with this recipe, it's the nature of cake pops.  Some will come apart.  Those are the ones that you are supposed to eat while you are making this recipe. 🙂
PRO TIP:  If you would like for the inside of your cake pop to be a colorful Easter color, use a little food coloring to make it a fun spring color! 

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts
Easter Cake Pops
Amount Per Serving
Calories 293 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Fat 10g15%
Saturated Fat 4g20%
Cholesterol 29mg10%
Sodium 188mg8%
Potassium 31mg1%
Carbohydrates 47g16%
Sugar 38g42%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 100IU2%
Vitamin C 0.2mg0%
Calcium 50mg5%
Iron 1.1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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***This recipe originally posted to Loaves and Dishes on February 29, 2016 and it has been  updated with new information, pro tip, video, step by step shots and the recipe has been updated with new information and better instructions***

A VERSE TO SHARE

Considering the Easter Season, I thought this a fitting verse to share. There isn’t much to add to it either. Thankfully. 🙂 

Matthew 28:6

He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.

Wendi is the writer, CEO and dishwasher at Loaves and Dishes! When not in the kitchen or behind the computer, you can find Wendi serving on International Food Conference Boards, Speaking at various conferences, Leading and Cooking for the local Arts Council's "Taste of Stokes" events or donating home cooked goodies to various local non profits such as the Danbury Songwriters and Stokes Partnership for Children. Wendi is also a Registered Nurse with a Master's Degree and serves on her town's board of councilmen.

Recipe Rating




Moxie

Friday 2nd of February 2018

So fun to do!

Hafsa

Tuesday 17th of May 2016

wonderful recipe ! thanks for sharing :)

Wendi Spraker

Tuesday 17th of May 2016

Hey there! Thank you!

Wendi Spraker

Monday 28th of March 2016

Thank you so much!! Yes, Sarah's Iggi is usually very curious about what we are doing when there are food photos involved!! Although having him sit still enough to have his own photo made is another story. I'll tell Sarah that you stopped by!

Cakespy

Monday 28th of March 2016

This is basically the cutest post ever. I love the batman pic, and my little pug (I call him ninja pug) is getting up in my baking grill all the time just like that!! I love these springy, happy, cake pops.

Ally

Sunday 20th of March 2016

The cakepops look delectable and I love the wedding photo with the Batman unveiling---tres cute & unique.

Wendi Spraker

Sunday 20th of March 2016

Hi Ally! Thanks for visiting!!! I'll let Sarah know that you stopped by so that she can respond! I agree. Fun and cute!

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