How to Make CAKE POPS | DIY Starbucks Homemade COPYCAT Birthday Cake Pops Recipe

Want to learn how to make cake pops at home that are easy and that taste like Starbucks Birthday Cake Pops? Well keep watching! The recipe is at the bottom of this description as well as links to some of the tools I used.

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Starbucks Birthday Cake Pop Copycat Recipe

For the Cake

The Candy Coating
1 1/2 teaspoons Coconut Oil (you can use any type of flavorless oil)

Extra Items Needed

Prepare and bake the cake according to the package instructions and let it cool down to room temperature (I covered mine with plastic wrap and allowed to cool in the refrigerate overnight).
Cut out the edges and remove the cake from the baking dish and add to a large mixing bowl. Crumble the cake with your hands. Add 2 tbsp of frosting to the crumbled cake and mix with a spoon or your hands.
Scoop cake with ice cream scoop and press cake into hand and then roll the cake ball with the palm of your hands to smooth any imperfections. Place formed balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
In a heat safe bowl, melt about 1/4 cup of candy melts in a microwave. Heat in 30 second intervals to avoid overheating the candy (you can also do this with a double boiler as I have in the video)
Dip the tip of each cake pop stick into the melted candy and poke it into to ball about halfway through. Place each cake pop onto a baking sheet and transfer to the freezer for about 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, melt the rest of the candy in a bowl. Make sure you melt them in 30 second intervals with mixing in between (again you can use the double boiler method if you don’t own a microwave). Add the coconut oil to the melts and mix well. Add melted candy into a tall cup.
Once the cake pops have been in the freezer for 20 min, dip each into the cup and tilt to the sides slowly to make sure the entire cake pop is covered. Then slowly pull up the cake pop, do not swirl (they will come off), hold the cake pop in one hand and tap your wrist so that all the extra melted candy drips off.
Sprinkle the cake pop right away so that the sprinkles stick to it before the candy hardens and place the stick part inside the styrofoam and allow the candy to harden. Enjoy!
I ended up getting 32 cake pops but that will all depend on how compact you make yours

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[yasminehaitami]

I made cake pops now my little sis won’t stop bothering me about making them again she says 10 times better in her mind than Starbucks ones

[neverending]

I'm slowly becoming a baker during quarantine 😂

[souna]

I tried them and they turned out delicious and i can’t stop eating them i’m never buying Starbucks cake pops every again it soooo good

[bluesoul]

In junior year of HS, I had a friend who would sell cake pops during class for 50 cents a pop. I would usually end up buying 3-5, and snacking on them during class. (My French III teacher was awesome, lol)

Also, people who say using your hands during cooking is disgusting sound like people who don't know how to make food at home.

[salty_cucumber_]

This is how many people love cake pops hit the thumbs up. thanks for all the likes it’s the first time I ever got that many likes.

[meishabrowne]

In nyc the Starbucks cake pops are like $3.49 for one and tax.

[HackerActivist]

For my adhd peeps:

Pillsbury white classic boxed cake mix
Make it like normal but she only used egg white to make it more white but you can use the entire egg
Bake
Cool
Cut around the edges only soft parts
Put remaining cake in bowl
Crumble cake with hands gently but tiny

2 tablespoon of frosting and mix in with hands
Start making a ball tablespoon and a half
Squish to get air out
Put on parchment paper
Melt choclate waters 1/4 cup
Dip the lollipop stick into the melted choclate and put half way through cake pop7
Let set In freezer for 30 min ish
Melt the rest of the choclate
Add some oil with the chocolate in a tall glass and mix
Put the cake pop in slowly let drip lightly tap the stick against the glass to get a
Excess

[luckycharms]

Am I the only one who actually likes that you keep it simple? You don’t need lots of expensive equipment taking up space in your cabinets, to make lots of beautiful and tasty treats!

[carolinekim]

I’m making these cake pops they are sooo expensive as Starbucks

[lizbethmarquez]

Such a wholesome person, i have never seen someone heart all their comments. at the most people heart one. so wholesome

[whatloser]

i don’t like to bake because it usually tastes gross but her explanation was so simple and straight to the point that my whole family loved them. she’s seriously a queen.

[user]

I love how she's still responding and hearting even though it's been more than a yr and the video has like 1.5M views. I'm going to try these today- I have leftover cake humps from another baking project so I can't wait!

[sheadean]

For the Starbucks cake pop they use yellow cake instead of white and they also surprisingly use a little bite of white ;white chocolate with the pink candy melts:)

[chaneldouse]

Me two months ago:
Eh i don’t have the time

Me rn during quarantine:I NEED THIS

[angelcross]

It’s 2024 and they’re $3.25 BEFORE TAX

[prttybratt]

Her blending the cake mix:
Nobody:
Nobody at all:
Me: Yeah Get in to it

[samc]

We own a dishwasher BUT my mom won’t let me use it so I have to hand wash them

[djjones]

They’re almost $3 EACH here in Seattle Washington. Absolutely ridiculously expensive. I just started this recipe so hopefully based on all the good reviews, it’s gonna turn out uhhhmazing!!! I can’t wait to try them. I just finished baking the cake now I’m waiting for it to cool down 😍💯👍🏻 I’ll let ya guys know how these turned out

[vanessadona]

Me and my cousin made these and they where delicious and fun to make! Thank you for this recipe!

[lrjrqgz]

I also started making cake pops during quarantine with my girls. They love them and now my family always asks them. Thank you for the easy video and showing me how to make!