This Gender Reveal Stuffed Cake Pops tutorial is courtesy of our contributor Karen…With May being the month of Mother’s Day, I thought I would do a baby cake pop. Lately I have been experimenting with stuffing cake pops – M&Ms, chocolate bars… you name it and I’ll try it! I found that trying to stuff a cake pop using cake pop dough (i.e., cake crumbled and mixed with icing – the traditional way to make a cake pop) was far too sweet for my liking, so I used a baking mold to form my cake for this tutorial.
Gender Reveal Stuffed Cake Pops – What You’ll Need:
- a cake pop baking mold (any brand)
- any cake mix (use ingredients as the box specifies plus an additional egg for extra density)
- apple corer
- white icing
- food colouring (red or blue)
- a paring knife
- chocolate melts (any colour)
- treat sticks
- piping bags or sandwich bags
- sprinkles
- toothpicks
- candied eyes
- edible markers
- muffin baking cups
- candied necklace
Step One: The Batter
I used a cake mix for these pops. Optional: To make a firmer/denser cake pop, I used half the milk (or water) required by the box recipe and added an extra egg. For example, this mix required 1 and 1/4 cups of milk, so I used a 1/2 cup & 1/8 cup of milk. It also required 3 eggs so I used 4.
Step Two: The Baking
I used these pans called Bake Pops. Unfortunately, the company is no longer in business but there are many silicone molds now available at Michaels, on Amazon, and of course at any baking supply stores. I’m hoping one day to get a silicone mold of my own for my birthday or maybe even Mother’s Day. {hint, hint}
Pour your cake batter into your pans and bake as per the directions of your mold.
Dependant on the mold you use, you may have to do some trimming once they’ve cooled. Some pops may have a Saturn-like ring around it. Just lightly trim them to even out the surface so that when you dip your pops they will be smooth.
Step Three: The Filling
Once your pops are baked and smoothed, you’re ready for the fun part!
Take your apple corer and push it midway down into the pop. Twist and pull out the remains. Pop out the cored cake and cut the cylinder leaving about 1/4 of the cored cake piece intact (you will use this later).
Next, mix your frosting with the food colouring according to the baby gender – blue for a boy and pink for a girl. Fill your coloured icing into a piping bag or sandwich bag and squeeze it into the hollowed section of the pop. These gender reveal stuffed cake pops will be the star of the party because everyone will want to know the baby’s gender!
Use the leftover cored cake piece that you cut from the cored middle, to plug up and conceal the icing. Make sure this section is smoothed and pushed in properly or else it will leave bulging and unevenness when you’re ready to dip your pop. I often rim the inside of the cored pop with melted chocolate before I stick the cored cake piece in just to make sure that the piece stays in place and my pop doesn’t fall when I go to dip. Let the melted chocolate dry (a minute or two) and get ready to dip your cake pop as usual.
Step Four: Dip and Decorate
For these gender reveal stuffed cake pops, I did 4 different baby pops but you can make these as simple or as complicated as you want. You can simply dip and add some sprinkles or drizzles. You can dip and write “baby” on it (as I did). Or you can go full Bakerella (the true Queen of Cake Pops) and make a baby out of your pops. Your guests will just be so excited to bite into your stuffed creations to find out the gender that they may not even pay attention to the design.
As you can see, this pop was a “girl.”
My baby pops designs were based on ideas I saw online and on Bakerella’s website so I’ll refer you to her site as there were so many trials and errors making my baby pops that I couldn’t properly document my struggles without making this a 20 paged article. I have included some tutorial links below for design purposes.
One tip that I will leave you with is: SIMPLIFY. I spent so long trying to make these babies perfect when in the end everyone was really focused with what was on the inside.
As moms, we spend so much time on the tiny details when all our kids really want is an ordered pizza, a hug or even just some space. We spend so much time trying to make them look perfect, when it’s really what we put inside them that will matter most to the people they interact with. So…use that edible marker, those premade candies eyes, bake those pops instead of spending the hours rolling out perfect cake balls and take the shortcuts for the things that don’t matter!
To all those moms out there: Have a wonderful Mother’s Day! Take some time for you. We totally deserve it!
Thank you to our contributor Karen for this adorable gender reveal stuffed cake pops tutorial! Check out more of her cake pop creations on her Cake Bites by Karen Instagram page.
BABY FACE CAKE POP DESIGN: http://www.bakerella.com/baby-faces/
BABY FROM STORKS CAKE POP DESIGN: http://www.bakerella.com/storks-cake-pops/