Cake Pop Coating Cracking

How to prevent cake pops from cracking.

Cake pop coating cracking.

This will cause the cake batter to expand ever so slightly which will put cracks into the hardening frosting coating. Do use sprinkles and nonpareils to prettify your pops. After you dip each cake pop you will need to remove the excess coating. Lisa frank rainbow cake pops.

Cake pops for a lisa frank rainbow themed birthday shower for my granddaughter s birthday. This method works for me and i have made dozens of cake pops at a time. Lion king cake pops. Do not vigorously bang or shake your cake pop.

Pumpkin flavored cake pops for a fall baby shower. I used to add the sticks to the cake pops and then put them in the refrigerator. Im making this video because i wish several years ago when i started making cake pops someone could of told me all this. In short the primary cause of cracked cake pops is when there is too big of a disparity between the temperatures.

Then when you open up the fridge to check on your cake pops you will be greeted by this unfortunate surprise. Typically this is caused by the difference in temperature of the coating and the cake ball itself the coating is hot and the cake balls are too cold the cake ball expands and now you have cracks. After you have dipped the cake pops and have a nice finished product avoid storing them in the freezer. If the candy melt is too hot your cake pops are going to crack.

Nowadays i add the sticks and dip all at the same time. Then take it out and see how it reacts as it comes to room temperature. I like to tap and turn. When working with cake pops i always take out a few at a time.

First place one in the fridge for a few minutes. While i do like to chill my cake pops in the fridge sometimes freezer for a few minutes but be careful there is a fine line between. Don t use candies to decorate pops until you test them. Don t dip cold cake pops into too warm candy coating or you ll get cracks.

Lion king themed baby shower cake pops i made for my daughter in laws baby shower. The key to keeping your cake pop on the stick is keeping this process short and gentle. Making cake pops is incredibly fun b.