The more fluid your coating, the easier this will be. Just gently rock the stick left and right until the coating completely covers the ball. If the coating does not completely cover the ball, don’t stir. You want the coating to be deep enough to dip and remove in one motion and without stirring. Then insert cake pop into a bowl of melted coating so that the coating is about 3-4 inches deep. It’s not as thorough as the directions in my book, but it will get the job done.Īnd below is a quick illustration of how I dip.įirst dip the end of your lollipop stick in some of the melted candy coating and insert into a chilled ball.

But, with dark cakes and light colored candy coating, sometimes the shade of the cake can show through the coating slightly.Īnd I wanted to make sure I could see the whites of my eyes.īy the way, here’s the Basic Cake Pop How-to if you don’t know what I mean. Red velvet would have been so much more effective here. They are an obvious choice for the medium wouldn’t you say.Ĭrumbled cake. So this year, I decided to finally make eyeballs. I couldn’t stop making them… and still haven’t. Once I went beyond the basic ball, there was no turning back. I can remember when I made them and how excited I was that they turned out so cute. These were really the first ones I made that involved carrying out a theme and making varying shapes without the use of a cutter.

I’ve been wanting to make eyeball cake pops every Halloween since I made these cake pops back in 2008.īut, when I made these, I was completely focused on making more character-style cake pops instead of objects and challenging myself to do something different.

Realistic fake eyeballs