Cake Pop Coating Too Thick

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.

Cake pop coating too thick.

The resulting coating was not as thick as wilton s but was still too thick for cake pop perfection. Tips on dipping the cake pops. 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. However i did have to tap them rather aggressively to get the excess coating off.

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. Whisk the flour baking powder baking soda and salt together in a medium bowl. Additionally huge cake balls heavy cake balls. If your candy coating is too thick after melting add some kind of shortening such as crisco or coconut oil to thin it out.

Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c. My end result were cake pops with a slightly lumpy look. 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. Well you can not imagine how excited i was to see.

When you dip the cake pop into the candy coating don t swirl the cake pop around. Common issues problems with cake pops. This helps the chocolate set up a bit quicker. I think the most common is thick coating and it is dragging your cake pop down.

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. Save yourself a headache and spend some time getting the consistency right. 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. Smooth coating is one of the most if not the most important parts of successful cake pops.

Why are they falling off the stick. 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. Grease a 9 inch springform pan. This can happen for a couple different reasons.

An improvement none of the cake pops i dipped in the make n mold coating fell off the sticks. They re already colored in a whole rainbow of colors and they re very easy to find online or in craft stores or walmart. But the truth is the candy melts are sooo convenient. Instead bring it straight down dip and slowly bring it back up so it doesn t break apart.

Getting chocolate to the right consistency is another crucial step to having great looking cake pops. Have you ever had trouble using wilton candy melts for cake pops.