Description
Delightful Christmas Cake Pops combining moist white cake with creamy vanilla frosting, coated in colorful candy melts and decorated festively with sprinkles and candies. Perfect for holiday celebrations and easy to customize with fun shapes like trees and reindeer.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 box White Cake Mix
- 1 Cup Water
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 3 egg whites
- 16 oz vanilla frosting (store bought or homemade)
- 12 oz candy melts (use red, white, green, or brown for reindeer)
- Sprinkles or other candy melts for decorating
- Pretzels (if making reindeer)
- Mini Reese’s (for ornaments)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 325°F and grease a 9×13 inch baking dish to ensure the cake doesn’t stick.
- In a large bowl, combine the white cake mix, water, vegetable oil, and egg whites. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes, scraping down the sides as needed to ensure even mixing.
- Pour the batter into the greased baking dish and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool completely. Once cooled, crumble the cake into fine crumbs using your hands or a fork.
- Add the vanilla frosting to the crumbled cake and stir until well combined to form a dough-like mixture.
- Drop spoonfuls (about 24) of the mixture onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and freeze for 10 minutes to firm up.
- After chilling, roll each spoonful into a smooth ball or shape into a tree. Insert a cake pop stick into each one, then return to the freezer until solid.
- Melt the candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl at 50% power, stirring every 30 seconds until smooth and melted.
- Dip each cake pop into the melted candy, coating completely. Immediately place the stick into styrofoam to set. Add sprinkles quickly before coating hardens.
- Once the candy shells have hardened, use melted candy melts of different colors in a piping bag or Ziploc bag to create stripes, faces, or other decorations on the cake pops.
Notes
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cake pop
- Calories: 232
- Sugar: 18 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 34 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg