Christmas cake pops: the quick recipe for delicious and original Christmas sweets

I natalizi cake pops these are minis tartlets on stickdelicious, easy-to-prepare treats that look like lollipops lollipop) and that children particularly appreciate: get them involved in the preparation, they will have fun using food coloring, sugar sprinkles, colored sprinkles or glitter to give shape to their favorite characters.

Cheerful and colorful, you can decorate the Christmas cake pops as you wish: for example, by snowman, fall e colored ballsas in our case, or leave room for imagination and create what you like the most.

Besides being an excellent alternative to classic Christmas desserts to enrich a buffetare perfect to enjoy to taste or, if wrapped with transparent food-grade paper and colored ribbons, an original homemade treat idea that will delight friends and family.

To achieve them, we have prepared a sponge cake ad hoc to be baked in a semi-spherical mold, so as to have the cake balls ready to decorate, but if you prefer, you can use leftover cakes, muffins and plumcakes for the base of the cake pops but also pandoro you don’t know how to consume: they will be perfect recycling recipejust like the traditional version.

If you liked this recipe and you are looking for other alternative dessert ideas for Christmas, also try Christmas cupcakes, Christmas tree brownies or scenographic hanging cookies.

How to make Christmas cake pops

Below you will find detailed instructions for making Christmas cake pops: we will see how to prepare balls of sponge cake, how to make white and milk chocolate icings and finally how to decorate your stick cakes.

how to make cake balls

Start preparing the cake balls by making the sponge cake 1.

Then move the batter into a pocket bag and pour it into a semi-spherical silicone mold 2.

Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 20 minutes, or until the balls are golden brown 3. Leave to cool completely before unmolding the sponge cake spheres.

How to make colored frosting

Before proceeding with the frosting, melt the milk chocolate in the microwave or in a bain-marie, you will need it to attach the stick which will serve as a stick for the cake pops. Then dip each toothpick in the melted chocolate and gently insert it into each ball 4. Then leave to dry in the freezer for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, melt the white chocolate and pour it into two glasses: in one leave it natural, in the other add a few drops of green food coloring until you get the desired color. Using the stick, cover a few balls with natural white chocolate 5.

Others with green chocolate 6.

And still others with the milk one seven. Leave the cake pops in the freezer for at least an hour, the chocolate must be completely solidified.

How to Decorate Christmas Cake Pops

When the couverture chocolate is dry, you can move on to decorating the Christmas cake pops. Start with the white ones, which will become cuddly snowmen: use black sugars for the eyes and mouth, colored sugars for the hat and orange candies for the nose 8.

With green chocolate covered cake pops, you can instead create colorful Christmas balls: just pass them through a small bowl filled with red, yellow or any color sugar sprinkles. 9.

Alternatively, decorate them with white snowflakes and gummies to create elegant balls. ten.

Finally, the milk chocolate covered cake pops will be pretty reindeer, with pretzel horns, sugar eyes and a red candy instead of a nose 11. Once the decorations are finished, place the cake pops in the freezer one last time, 15 minutes will suffice.

Your Christmas cake pops are ready: place them in glass jars filled with sweets 12 or arrange them on a serving platter.

Tips

Instead of the classic, you can prepare a cocoa sponge cake or even, if your guests are intolerant, the gluten-free or egg-free version. If you don’t have a half-sphere mould, use a classic margherita cake or a fluffy yogurt plumcake instead: to turn them into balls, just crumble them and mix them with hazelnut cream, butter cream or jam of your choice.

You can also cover the cake pops with chocolate icing, which will make them even tastier, and, if you have good manual skills, you can prepare the modeling sugar paste to make hats, Christmas trees and stars of Santa Claus.

storage

Christmas cake pops will keep in the fridge for 4-5 daysand they can also be frozen for up to 1 month: leave them overnight in the refrigerator to enjoy them the next day.