Vanilla Cake Pops Recipe – Soft and easy vanilla cake pops are so easy to make in a cake pop maker! Indulge in one or four, or gift them to friends and family as a special treat.
Surprise your kids or treat-loving-friends with the best and easiest Vanilla Cake Pops ever! Made in the Babycakes Cake Pops Maker, this dessert is surprisingly easy to make and is just as delicious as your everyday vanilla cake (but with much less hassle).
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The Babycakes Cake Pops Maker makes this recipe a breeze. Its small molds help to form the cake batter into perfectly round balls every time. This easy cake pop recipe is done baking in minutes, meaning you can spend more time preparing the fun and seasonal decorations.
Cake pops from scratch can be decorated to suit any taste bud, season, or holiday. I chose to decorate these pops with a pink chocolate glaze and white sprinkles for Valentine’s Day. Whip up a batch to celebrate pumpkin season, as a two-bite treat for Easter, or shape them into a snowman during winter!
What are cake pops?
Have you ever had a craving for cake but didn’t want to indulge in an entire slice? That’s what cake pops are for! Made with the same batter as your favorite cake, cake pops are baked into a small ball shape, pierced with a stick, then covered in a melted chocolate glaze or frosting.
Cake pops come in all flavors, shapes, and sizes. You can usually find cake pops at Starbucks, but I highly recommend making them at home for the freshest flavor.
What you need to make the best vanilla cake pop recipe
Just like your favorite vanilla cake recipe, these small cake treats are soft, sweet, and fluffy. The Babycakes Cake Pops Maker is necessary when you want to bake the best cake pops to perfection. Otherwise, all you need are simple ingredients:
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Butter
- Sugar
- Salt
- Eggs
- Vanilla extract
- Milk
- Pink chocolate glaze
- White sprinkles
How to make vanilla cake pops with a cake pop maker
Step 1 – Whisk the flour, salt, and baking powder together in a mixing bowl.
Step 2 – Use an electric mixer to whisk the butter and sugar together until light and creamy.
Step 3 – Add the vanilla and eggs into the bowl and whisk until fully combined.
Step 4 – Combine half of the dry ingredients and the milk into the wet ingredients. Whisk, and then add the rest of the flour. Continue whisking until fully combined.
Step 5 – Pour 1 tablespoon of batter into each of the cake pop maker molds. Close the top and bake until the green light comes on.
Step 6 – While the cake pops cool, make the glaze by melting the chocolate in the microwave.
Step 7 – Pierce with a cake pop stick. Dip each pop in the melted chocolate so the cake is fully coated. Add the sprinkles on top, and then place them in the fridge to fully cool and harden.
Tips and substitutions
- Put the cooled cake pops without the glaze into the freezer. Letting them freeze helps the texture of the cake and makes glazing really easy.
- The cake batter will be on the thicker side, similar to a pound cake.
- If spooning the batter into the molds is too messy, use small ice cream scoop or transfer batter to a piping bag and pipe it into the molds instead.
- You can use melted chocolate to coat the cake pops for a solid glaze or dip them in vanilla buttercream instead.
- Melting chocolate, like Wilton candy melts, are much easier to melt than chocolate chips.
- Dip the cake pop stick in a little glaze before topping it with the ball of cake. This helps the cake pop to stay in place.
- Instead of swirling the pop around in the glaze and potentially breaking the cake apart, dunk it straight down into the melted chocolate and slowly bring it back up.
How to store cake pops
Cake pops can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for a few days. Don’t keep them in the fridge or else unwelcome condensation will surround the cake pop and ruin the texture.
More two-bite dessert recipes
Easy Vanilla Cake Pops with Cake Pop Maker
Equipment
- Baby Cake Pops Maker
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup milk (I used organic whole milk)
- 1 1/2 cup white chocolate chips for glazing
- sprinkles for garnish
- pink food coloring optional
Instructions
- Mix flour with salt and baking powder, and set aside. In a large mixing bowl wisk butter and sugar until light and creamy. Add vanilla and eggs. Wisk.
- Add 1/2 flour mixture into the egg mixture, wisk then add milk. Wisk. Add another 1/2 of flour mixture. Wisk.
- Using small ice cream scoop add 1 tbsp of batter into each cake pop maker molds. Close the top and bake for 5 minutes…or until green light turns ON.
- Pull them out and let them cool. After they are cooled put them in the freezer for 15-20 minutes. (This really helps to glaze cake pops)
- To glaze, melt white chocolate in the microwave for 30-60 seconds, add pink food coloring to make pink chocolate glaze.
- Pierce cake pops with a cake pop stick. Dip each pop in the melted chocolate so the cake is fully coated, tap on the edge of the bowl to get rid of extra chocolate. Add the sprinkles on top, and then place them in the fridge to fully cool and harden. Enjoy!
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This recipe was updated with new images and video June 26, 2021. Same recipe but new images, plus video.
These look great. Do you have the recipe amounts in metric or grams please?
Thank you Merril, I do now!
Very easy! Very tasty! I added some dried cranberries and some chai tea powder to give them a bit of holiday flair! Worked out great!
Thank you Arlea! Adding dried cranberries and chai tea powder sounds so yummy.
Came out great! Thanks for the recipe.
You are welcome Kenny! 😀
Can you do these in the oven?
I am sure you can if you have the oven forms.
Made your recipe tonight and wow – it really is super easy! Thanks for the recipe.
YOU ARE VERY WELCOME! So happy you liked this recipe!
That’s an amazing recipe. Thanks for sharing and love your site
Thank you so much, Becky for am amazing recipe review!
Oh my oh my! I would be cranking out donuts and cake balls ALL the time.. I am so thankful for your great review 🙂
Thank you Samantha! 🙂
Look yummy! One of my favorite Vanilla Cake Pops, nice to see your recipe, easy to follow, will cook this for children this weekend.Thanks you!
Oh my, these look SO delicious! They would be great for a Christmas cookie tray!
Look yummy! One of my favorite Vanilla Cake Pops, nice to see your recipe, easy to follow, will cook this for children this weekend.Thanks you!
Your food is wonderful. You probably learned it in a restaurant. It looks really good.
Thank you for sharing that secret. I will try to make one for my family. I will send you feedback after it’s done. yeah.
these little cakes look so yummy and beautiful
I will make my little daughter for her birthday.
It will definitely be enjoyed
Thanks for sharing
I love to cook! Learning and updating new recipes for daily menu makes me more interested and love my work. Today’s my lucky day, Vanilla Cake Pops Recipe for Babycakes Cake Pops Maker is great, just follow the instructions and everything is easy, I like that. Thanks for your sharing
I don’t see where you mentioned how many pops you get out of this recipe.
small and lovely cakes, my daughter loves to eat these cakes, I think I should go to the kitchen right now
It is a beautiful and delicious cake for kids. A creative idea.
I wish you would have included photos of the coating technique. I have had issues with that part of the process
Hi, I’m planning my daughters 1st birthday, and saw a lovely cake pop idea I wanted to try.
I’d never made cake pops before and unfortunately all the recipes involved crumbing a cake and adding frosting before hand rolling them. That didn’t sound very appetizing! I was so happy to find and try your recipe and glad to say they came out yummy! I don’t have a cake pop machine, so I used a silicone cake pop mold. and they came out great! (The first batch came out a bit lop sided, but for the 2nd batch I added a bit more batter and they came out nice and round)
I had seen a cake pop machine on sale ages ago and now regret not buying it 🙂 I was with my husband and he asked ‘do you NEED a cake pop machine?’ lol! no one NEEDS a cake pop machine but it would have fit in perfectly with my waffle machine, doughnut machine, ice cream cone machine…. 😉
OMG! I am so glad to hear this Cristina! I got my cakepop machine on garage sale for like $7 and I absolutely love it. My girls always get excited when we bake them! But yes, there are so many kitchen machines out there 😉
How do you get the cake pops to be nice and round? Mine seem to come out lop sided or not round haha.
Hi Marisa!!! Oh, NO! Lop sided cake pops are not fun! Have YOU tried adding more dough into the cake pops maker. I believe I add 1 tablespoon or enough to fill half of the holes. Hope that makes sense.
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is is okay to bake? i really wanna make this but i don’t have this type of machine or cake pop maker. i just wanna make a cake 🙂
also, is it okay if i add sprinkles for a funfetti recipe?
Hi Hateya! That’s a good question, I have never baked them, but I am sure you can bake this batter on a greased baking sheet at 350F until golden color:) I hope this helps!
Making cake is so simple after seeing your this recipe. Thanks alottttttt….
You are very welcome! I am sure you will like this cake pop recipe:)