The Super Bowl is just around the corner so it’s time for football cake pops. {Or you can forego the lollipop sticks and make football cake bites.} These cake pops would also be the perfect treat for a football-themed birthday bash or a football team party.
Shaping the cake pops is easy. Simply roll them into balls and then form them into the football shape with your fingers. I typically use a basic white cake or chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting but you can use the cake/frosting combo of your choice. Dark, semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips are all great options for the chocolate coating.
Football Cake Pops
Author: Itsy Bitsy Foodies
Recipe type: Dessert
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Serves: 8+
Football cake pops are the perfect treat for the Super Bowl, football-themed birthday bashes and football team parties.
Ingredients
- Cake, crumbled
- Frosting, to taste
- Chocolate chips or Wilton’s milk chocolate candy melts
- White chocolate or Wilton's white chocolate candy melts
- Lollipop sticks
Instructions
- Once your cake has cooled, crumble it into pea-sized or smaller pieces.
- Mix in the frosting a spoonful or two at a time, adding just enough so that when rolled the cake mixture stays in balls without crumbling apart.
- Roll the dough into balls and then form them into football shapes.
- Place them on a wax paper-lined cookie sheet.
- Refrigerate them for 15-30 minutes.
- Melt a small portion of chocolate chips in a double-boiler. {If you don't have a double-boiler fill a medium-sized saucepan halfway with water and heat it over medium heat. Place the chocolate chips in a small saucepan and rest it inside the medium pan. As the water boils, stir the chocolate occasionally until it melts and is smooth.}
- Dip the ends of each lollipop stick into the chocolate.
- Immediately insert a chocolate-dipped lollipop stick into each football cake so that it is inserted about half way through the football.
- Place the football cake pops back onto the waxed paper and freeze them for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Melt the remaining chocolate in the double boiler and pour it into a deep glass or bowl.
- Working with one cake pop at a time, dunk it in the chocolate and swirl it around until the chocolate covers the cake pop up past the point where the chocolate-dipped stick is inserted into the cake.
- Swirl it and tap off any excess chocolate.
- Place it in a short glass or in styrofoam with holes poked in it to allow the chocolate to harden.
- Melt the white chocolate in a double-boiler or the Wilton's white candy melts in the microwave.
- Transfer the melted white chocolate to a cake decorating bag fitted with a small, round tip.
- Once the chocolate on the footballs has hardened, pipe the football marks on each football cake pop.
- Place them in a short glass or in styrofoam with holes poked in it to allow them to dry completely.
