Rolling Perfect Cake Pops

Cake pop stand or styrofoam block for drying.

Rolling perfect cake pops.

After you have rolled the cake balls in the palm of your hands it might not be an exact circle a good trick is to use the tablespoon or ice cream scoop to shape the cake pop into a smooth circle. Made out of food safe plastic and designed to be interchangeable the easy roller comes standard with a 1 25 inch insert which allows you to roll twenty one cake balls at a time all the same size weight and shape. The key to this is to move fast with lots of pressure. I suggest using a stainless steel coffee spoon or medium cookie scoop to perfectly portion out your cake pop dough.

You can find. Crumble cooled cake a food processor works best for this job. The cake pop roller is a tool designed to roll cake pops balls faster easier and more consistently. How to make cake pops 2 crumble the cake.

The wilton cookie scoop is a bit larger but for 3 you can t go wrong. It is all metal and easy to clean. Use a cookie scoop to measure cake pops equally each time. This is another great tool especially if the cake mix just won t come together and keeps crumbling.

Add buttercream frosting one tablespoonful at a time because it can go from perfect to overly wet with a single extra tablespoon. Rolling cake pops to be the same shape and size consistently can be a challenge without the right tools. 4 shape into 1 1 2 inch balls. Sweet creations cake pop press.

I ve had no problems with it. Ingredients 2 8 inch baked and cooled cake rounds any flavor 1 2 cup icing any flavor 3 12 ounce bags of chocolate candy wafers assorted colors vegetable shortening sprinkles and decorations assorted colors 20 30 skinny wooden lollipop sticks large foam board. A proper cake pop mixture will be surprisingly dry. You re aiming for a mixture that molds like firm playdough and feels dry to the touch.

In this video i am using a medium oxo cookie scoop to measure out my cake balls and then using the smash and roll technique. For a 9 13 cake add 3 4 of a. When rolling round cake balls the perfect size is about 1 25 wide. I find that if i use my norpro cookie scoop my cake pops are are the same size and they are already 75 rolled.

Once you feel good about your crumble job it s time to add the frosting. I like to cut the cake into sections and take one. I love my norpro cookie scoop.