Christmas Red Velvet Cake Pops
These super easy red velvet cake pops with cream cheese frosting are the perfect Christmas treat for a crowd!
Equipment
- 48 cake pop sticks
- styrofoam block or cake pop stand
- 1 small icing bottle optional, for decorating
Ingredients
- 1 red velvet cake (Plus water, oil, eggs your cake mix calls for)
- 4 oz cream cheese softened
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Melting chocoate I used at least 24 oz total for this recipe
- 2-4 tsp Coconut oil optional, use to thin melting chocolate to make it easier to work with
Instructions
Prepare Red Velvet Cake
- Bake your red velvet cake according to the instructions and allow to cool completely.
- Place chunks of cake in food processor and pulse until you have very fine crumbs. Keep your cake crumbs in a large bowl and set aside.
Make Cream Cheese Frosting
- Beat together cream cheese and butter until smooth
- Slowly add in powdered sugar and vanilla. Continue beating at medium speed until everything is smooth.
Assemble Cake Pops
- Divide your frosting in half (approximately). Set aside the one half for later use.
- Add your cake crumbs to half your frosting slowly, continuing to mix until everything is smooth
- Add in more frosting 1/4 cup or so at a time until you reach a thick, cookie dough-like consistency. You want your dough to hold its shape without any help.
- Shape your dough into balls. Place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and chill in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
Decorate Cake Pops
- Melt melting chocolate according to instructions on the package.
- Add a little bit of coconut oil to thin out your chocolate and make it easier to work with.
- Dip the end of a cake pop in the chocolate, and then stick into a chilled cake pop.
- Dip entire cake pop in melted chocolate and gently maneuver a spoon around to pour/cover the cake pop in melted chocolate.
- Hold your cake pop upside down and let excess chocolate drip off. Decorate cake pop with sprinkles (if you like). and place in a styrofoam block or cake pop stand to dry. I like to melt red chocolate candy melts and put them in a small icing bottle with a small, plain round tip. Then, I drizzle the red on top after my cake pops have dried a bit.
- Store your cake pops in the fridge and enjoy!