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.
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No Bake Cake Pops
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!
Add a lollipop stick and make cake pops, or not, and serve as cake balls.
Any way you serve them, they're an easy-to-make sweet treat for Valentine's Day that everyone will love!
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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!
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How to make cake pops
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- 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
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- You may need to return the melted mixture to the microwave occasionally during the dipping process if it begins to thicken up. Just microwave at an additional 30-second intervals.
- Decorate with your favorite colors
Substitutions
- Make chocolate cake pops and use milk chocolate chips or semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Substitute chocolate cake for the vanilla pound cake
Ingredients
Ingredients for pound cake cake pops
- store bought pound cake
- creamy white frosting
- lollipop sticks
- white chocolate chips
- pink candy color
- white cake sparkles
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Our Red Velvet Mini Layer Cakes is an easy from scratch cake recipe for your Valentine's Day dessert. Mini cake layers have a deep intense red color and are flavored with cocoa powder for a delicious chocolate flavor. Frost with a homemade buttercream frosting and decorate with Valentine sprinkles and you'll have adorable mini layer cakes that are perfect for sharing on Valentine's Day.
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Espresso Brownies with Kahlua Ganache is a homemade brownie recipe made with chopped chocolate and flavored with espresso powder giving these brownies a deep rich chocolate flavor. A silky, creamy ganache flavored with Kahlua, a coffee flavored liqueur, tops our homemade brownies along with conversation hearts for a perfect Valentine's Day dessert!
Bake up some love this Valentine’s Day for those special people in your life and make Valentine Heart Brownies. Our brownie recipe mixes up in one bowl then bake, cool and cut into delectable little hearts for a treat that says "I love you".
And you can bake cupcakes or just buy them to make our Personalized Conversation Heart Cupcakes. Show someone how much you love them on Valentine's Day with Personalized Conversation Heart Cupcakes. Fondant hearts, decorated with colorful sugars and personalized with names on top of cupcakes will make everyone feel special. Easy to make as an edible craft project both kids and adults will have fun making Valentine cupcakes!
No-Bake Vanilla Cake Balls Recipe
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Ingredients
- 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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Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or wax paper.
- With mixer on medium-low speed combine pound cake and frosting until blended.
- Shape mixture into 32 balls, each about 1 Tablespoonful. Arrange on prepared baking sheet and insert lollipop sticks.
- Freeze until chilled and firm, about 30 minutes.
- In microwave-safe dish microwave white chocolate chips in 30 second intervals until melted and smooth, stirring after each interval.
- Transfer 1/4 cup melted mixture to a small bowl and tint with pink candy color; reserve.
- Dip cake pops into remaining melted chips* to coat, shaking off any excess and return cake pops to prepared baking sheet.
- Drizzle with reserved pink mixture and sprinkle with cake sparkles.
Notes
- You may need to return the melted mixture to the microwave occasionally during the dipping process if it begins to thicken up. Just microwave at additional 30 second intervals.
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