Lemon Cake Pops
Use homemade butter cream and store-bought cake mix for the easiest top-level lemon cake pops. These tangy treats can be perfect as Easter cake pops, or for any time of the year -- all depending on how you decorate them!
Servings: 12
Equipment
- hand-mixer or blender
- Baking Sheet
- 12 lollipop sticks
Ingredients
- 1 box lemon cake mix (and required ingredients)
Lemon Butter Cream
- 1 stick unsalted butter (softened to room temperature)
- 3 Tablespoons lemons
- 4½ Cups Confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar)
- 1½ Tablespoons Whole milk or heavy cream
- lemon zest of two lemons
- salt (to season)
- yellow food coloring
Candy coating
- 12 ounces white chocolate chips
- yellow food coloring
Instructions
Lemon Cake
- Bake lemon cake according to instructions. Allow the cake to cool and remove the stiff caramelized edges using a sharp knife.
Lemon Buttercream
- Use a hand-mixer or butter to cream the butter at medium speed for about two minutes. Add confectioner's sugar, milk, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Add a pinch of salt to taste. Add food coloring and stir, adding more coloring until you get the shade you like.
Lemon Cake pops
- Place the cake into a bowl and use your hands or a mixture to crumble it into small crumbs. Add about ¼ cup of lemon buttercream. Stir to coat the crumbs. Add another ¼ cup of lemon buttercream and stir and continue adding buttercream ¼ cup at a time until you get a slightly doughy mixture in which the crumbs stay together when rolled into a ball.
- Roll about 2 tablespoons of lemon cake pop mixture into a ball to create about 12 balls. Place the balls on a baking sheet. Refrigerate about 2 hours.
- Melt the white chocolate chips according to instructions. Generally, you can melt the chips in a small bowl at 50% power for 1 minute and then stir. Continue heating in 30 second increments until the chips are just melted. Add food coloring until you get the shade you like.
- Dip a lollipop stick in the melted white chocolate and stick into a cake ball about half way. Repeat for all cake balls.
- Carefully dip the cake pop into the melted chocolate and gently shake off excess coating. Decorate with an garnished such as sprinkles, dried lavender or edible glitter. Place in Styrofoam or punctuated cardboard to cool.