No Bake Vanilla Cake Balls are a perfect last minute dessert for Valentine’s Day or any special occasion. Store bought pound cake, frosting and white chocolate chips combine to make delicious sweet cake pops that you decorate for a delicious impressive dessert.
No Bake Cake Balls
Looking for a valentine dessert recipe that you can make last minute AND without turning on your oven? Look no more because you’ve come to the right kitchen!
Perfect for a Valentine’s Day get together or sweet dessert for the family, our cake balls recipe will definitely satisfy your sweet tooth on this day of love.
And the best part about it? You don’t even have to bake the cake! An easy-to-make sweet treat for Valentine’s Day!
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Pink candy color and white cake sparkles and mini liners are the perfect finishing touch on your vanilla cake pops! Lollipop sticks make them a cake pop.
Serve them as cake balls or add those lollipop sticks and make them cake pops. Either way is a great way to make a last minute sweet treat. Cake balls will surely be the hit of your celebration!
Happy Valentine’s Day to you and your loved ones!
How to make cake balls
- Purchase store bought pound cake, canned frosting and white chocolate chips
- Combine the pound cake and frosting
- Freeze until firm, about 30 minutes.
- Then dip in melted chips and decorate

Add a lollipop stick to cake balls and make them cake pops!
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- You may need to return melted mixture to microwave occasionally during the dipping process if it begins to thicken up. Just microwave at additional 30 second intervals.
- Decorate with your favorite colors
- Make them chocolate and use milk chocolate chips or semi-sweet chocolate chips
Ingredients you will need to make this recipe
- store bought pound cake
- creamy white frosting
- lollipop sticks
- white chocolate chips
- pink candy color
- white cake sparkles
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Pink candy color and white cake sparkles are the perfect finishing touch on these No-Bake Vanilla Cake Balls! The perfect sweet treat for Valentine's Day!
- 1 package (11.5 oz.) butter pound cake ,cut in chunks, such as Entenmann's
- 2/3 cup creamy white frosting ,from 1 (16 oz.) can
- 32 lollipop sticks
- 3 cups (18 ounces) white chocolate chips
- pink candy color
- white cake sparkles
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Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or wax paper.
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With mixer on medium-low speed combine pound cake and frosting until blended.
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Shape mixture into 32 balls, each about 1 Tablespoonful. Arrange on prepared baking sheet and insert lollipop sticks.
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Freeze until chilled and firm, about 30 minutes.
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In microwave-safe dish microwave white chocolate chips in 30 second intervals until melted and smooth, stirring after each interval.
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Transfer 1/4 cup melted mixture to a small bowl and tint with pink candy color; reserve.
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Dip cake pops into remaining melted chips* to coat, shaking off any excess and return cake pops to prepared baking sheet.
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Drizzle with reserved pink mixture and sprinkle with cake sparkles.
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tip
- You may need to return melted mixture to microwave occasionally during the dipping process if it begins to thicken up. Just microwave at additional 30 second intervals.
First Published: February 12, 2016… Last Updated: January 29, 2021
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