I stumbled upon cake pops a few years ago and decided to give them a try with my hospitality students. We were making food to sell as a fundraiser at the prom fashion show. These are delicious and genius creations sure to be a crowd pleaser.

As far as I can tell, cake pops were first created by Angie Dudley the founder of Bakerella.com. She has a whole book and supplies dedicated to the art and craft of making these delicious treats!

Snowmen Cake Pops

1. Bake a Cake
2. Crumble Cake
3. Mix with frosting
4. Form into balls
5. Freeze the balls
6. Stick a skewer in them (half way)
7. Dip them in 1 bag white chocolate chips (melted + 3 Tbsp shortening)
8. For hats I used mini Oreo Cakesters
9. For noses I used the orange piece of licorice mix and rolled them into noses. Softened Starbursts can also be used.
10. For eyes and a mouth I also used cut pieces of licorice.

Sheep & Lamb Cake Pops

1. Bake a Cake
2. Crumble Cake
3. Mix with frosting
4. Form into balls
5. Freeze the balls
6. Stick a skewer in them (half way)
7. Dip them in 1 bag white chocolate chips (melted + 3 Tbsp shortening). Shortening makes the chocolate thinner.
8. Let the excess drip off before dipping them in a bowl of sugar pearls.
9. Using the chocolate as glue glue on a round black licorice head, a tail, ears, and four legs.
10. A heart sprinkle can be used for a mouth or you can shape one from the pink licorice.
11. Finally add eyes with a tooth pick dipped in white chocolate.

Tips

• Don’t make your cake balls too big or their weight will make them fall off the lolly pop stick!
• To make chocolate thinner and less globby add a spoonful of shortening to the hot chocolate.
• If you don’t have a piece of Styrofoam to put the finished pops in find an appliance that has Styrofoam surrounding it and poke a few holes in that. I used the Styrofoam that came with my rice maker.

Selling them as a fundraiser

• Have your students price out how much each one costs in supplies to make. Double the cost and that should be your selling price.
• Place a lolly pop bag over each one and tie with a ribbon as pictured.
• These can also be used as a substitution for a candy gram–instead sell cake pop grams! The way grams work is you have students buy a gram from someone in the school and they can attach a personal note. The grams are then delivered on a specific day and usually are surprises for the students who receive them.  Cake pops make a great “gram” to deliver because they can be made in all different shapes and representations for every season. For a Vocational Agriculture program you could sell farm animal cake pops. Here are some holiday cake pops. Even Birthday cake pops. The ideas are endless.
• To display them at a concession stand buy a piece of foam (like is found in the floral section of your local craft store) that fits inside a decorative container and stick the pops in the foam. To hide the foam place Easter grass or tissue paper over the foam.