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    TaraTeaspoon » Recipes » Cake

    Cake Pops With Pantry Toppers

    Published: Apr 17, 2016 · Updated: Aug 14, 2022 by Tara Teaspoon · This page contains affiliate and sponsored links. See my full disclosure

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    Cake pops that get their colorful toppers right from the pantry! Dried fruits, nuts and cookies make beautiful and tasty decorations for this classic treat.


    Cake Pops With Pantry Toppers

    The gooey, soft centers of cake pops are irresistible!  Pretty sure that's why they are ever-so-popular. They're pretty fun to make (crumbling up a perfectly good cake into tiny crumbs and mashing it together with frosting!). They're also very fun to decorate.

    This variation is not claiming to be healthy because of fruit and nuts. But my goodness they make for pretty decorations. I love the pop apricots and cranberries make on the white and brown chocolates. I chopped the dried fruits into tiny little pieces to they look like little jewels on the cake pops.

    Any nuts or seeds will do, but the green pepitas are the cutest; and white speckles of coconut are quite tasty. I don't need to tell you crushed cookies are a great topper. You know that!

    📖 Recipe

    Vanilla and chocolate covered cake pops decorated with dried fruits, nuts and cookies

    Cake Pops

    Tara Teaspoon
    You'll be the coolest mom in your kid's class when you show up with cake pops.
    5 from 2 votes
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    Work Time 45 minutes mins
    Cook Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins
    Total Time 2 hours hrs
    Course Dessert

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 boxed cake mix
    • 1¾ cup prepared frosting
    • White-chocolate candy melts
    • Milk-chocolate candy melts
    • Chopped nuts
    • Dried Fruit
    • Sprinkles
    • Lollipop sticks

    Instructions
     

    • Prepare and bake cake mix and let cool. Grind the cake with your hands or in a food processor to form very fine crumbs.
    • Mix the crumbs with 1¾ cups prepared frosting in a bowl until it forms a sticky dough. Roll mixture into 1-inch balls and freeze for 15 min.
    • Dip lollipop sticks in melted chocolate and stick each one into a cake ball. Freeze 20 min more. Dip the pops in melted candy melts and decorate with chopped nuts, dried fruit or sprinkles.

    Notes

    Any nuts or seeds will do, but the green pepitas are the cutest; and white speckles of coconut are quite tasty. I don't need to tell you crushed cookies are a great topper. You know that!
     
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    1. Mary Bench says

      July 17, 2018 at 3:19 pm

      How fun! Cake pops!

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    2. Brittany Smart says

      July 19, 2018 at 3:20 pm

      I love cake pops! These look amazing

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    Hi, I'm Tara Teaspoon!

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