06/17/2025
Celebrate your grad with these adorable graduation cake pops! 🎓🎓🎓 Customize with your grad's school colour. Congrats
Ingredients: 🛒
1 box of Compliments cake mix
Frosting:
7 tbsp unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
1 3/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
2–3 tsp heavy cream or whole milk
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Coating:
24oz candy melts or white chocolate bars
Food colouring of choice
Instructions 👩🍳
1. Make the cake according to box instructions.
2. Make the frosting: With a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium speed until creamy, about 2 minutes. Add confectioners’ sugar, heavy cream, and vanilla extract and mix on low speed to combine. Increase to high speed and beat for 3 full minutes.
3. Crumble the cooled cake into the bowl on top of the frosting. Make sure there are no large lumps. Turn the mixer on low speed and beat the frosting and cake crumbles together until combined.
4. Scoop 1 tbsp of cake/frosting mixture and roll into a ball. Place balls on a lined baking sheet. Refrigerate for 2 hours, or freeze for 1 hour to set the shape.
5. Melt the chocolate or candy melts in a 2-cup liquid measuring cup (best for dunking!) in the microwave in 20-second increments, stirring after each increment, until melted and smooth. Mix in food colouring of choice.
6. Coat the cake balls: Remove just 2 or 3 cake balls from the refrigerator at a time. Dip the end of a lollipop stick about 1/2 inch into the coating, then insert the coated end into the center of the cake ball. Only push it about halfway through the cake ball. Dip the cake ball into the coating until it is completely covered. Make sure the coating covers the base of the cake ball where it meets the lollipop stick. Very gently tap the stick against the edge of the measuring cup to allow excess coating to drip off. Repeat with remaining cake balls, working with just a few out of the refrigerator at a time.
7. Set in refrigerator for an hour.
8. Add decorated chocolate and pipe icing on top for the rope.