Cake Pop Coating Too Thick

Common issues problems with cake pops.

Cake pop coating too thick.

If your candy coating is too thick after melting add some kind of shortening such as crisco or coconut oil to thin it out. You don t want to freeze anything for too long or you can experience some cracking when your chocolate dries and the cake pop expands slightly. This can happen for a couple different reasons. Instead bring it straight down dip and slowly bring it back up so it doesn t break apart.

Save yourself a headache and spend some time getting the consistency right. It s often too thick and clumpy and i get sooooo frustrated when this happens. Using a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle or whisk attachment beat the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until creamed about 2 minutes. My end result were cake pops with a slightly lumpy look.

Well you can not imagine how excited i was to see. But the truth is the candy melts are sooo convenient. Getting chocolate to the right consistency is another crucial step to having great looking cake pops. I think the most common is thick coating and it is dragging your cake pop down.

They re already colored in a whole rainbow of colors and they re very easy to find online or in craft stores or walmart. One other bit of advice i find helpful is to chill my cake pops peeps marshmallows whatever i m using prior to dipping it in the chocolate. Why are they falling off the stick. Again we are avoiding any extreme temperature differences letting the coating cool for a few minutes before dipping brings it closer to the temperature of the cake pop.

An improvement none of the cake pops i dipped in the make n mold coating fell off the sticks. I know i have. Melted chocolate is great to use for all kinds of desserts but it can sometimes end up being a little too thick making it hard to get the smooth coating you were hoping for. The resulting coating was not as thick as wilton s but was still too thick for cake pop perfection.

Have you ever had trouble using wilton candy melts for cake pops. Tips on dipping the cake pops. This helps the chocolate set up a bit quicker. Whisk the flour baking powder baking soda and salt together in a medium bowl.

However i did have to tap them rather aggressively to get the excess coating off. Stir in vegetable shortening just a few teaspoons at a time to get a thinner consistency that will make the cake pops easier to dip. When you dip the cake pop into the candy coating don t swirl the cake pop around. Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c.

Smooth coating is one of the most if not the most important parts of successful cake pops. Too thick and your cake pop will look awful too thin and you can see all the lumps and you will need to redip or the candy coating will dry super fast.