How To Make Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Pops

These chocolaty Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Pops are a delicious kid-friendly treat for Valentine’s Day!

Grab some lollipop sticks because you are going to love making this easy cake pop recipe! This cake pops recipe makes a fun project to do with young kids because there are so many easy steps!

Have you tried making gluten free cake pops yet? They are a wonderful dessert that is great if you only want a small portion of dessert. (Not to mention they are super cute and fancy!!)

Valentine’s Day is around the corner, so I couldn’t resist decorating these chocolate cake pops for the holiday. You can use any type and color of sprinkles you like. This chocolate cake pop recipe can be enjoyed all year long!

Here are my favorite Gluten Free Desserts for Valentine’s Day. Any of these desserts would be awesome anytime though :-).

Cake Pops

Cake pops can be linked back to lovely donut holes. Donut holes are usually glazed or covered in delicious chocolate. They are a tasty breakfast treat we have loved for years. They started the idea and helped it spread.

The main purpose of cake pops is to use up a stale or extra cake! Good news is that cake pops are more dense and sweeter than the original cake. They are perfect for kid’s parties, birthdays, holidays, special treats or just a little snack for yourself.

These gluten free cake pops can:

• reduces food waste
• gives you a second dessert
• will make you a hit of the party

Dress them up in melted chocolate of any flavor or color, add sprinkles or piped frosting. Even turn them into characters. Since they are on sticks it is less mess and more deliciousness.

Making cake balls is perfect for those who like to play with their food!

You take gluten free chocolate cake (like in this easy Gluten Free Chocolate Cake recipe) and smoosh it up with your hands. Trust me, kids love this part!

There are lots of types of vanilla frosting for cake pops. For this recipe, I used vanilla frosting to bind the smooshed up cake. You can use this chocolate buttercream frosting recipe or this vanilla cream cheese frosting recipe.

(And if you don’t feel like making frosting, you can buy frosting at your store. Just make sure you choose a good gluten free frosting.

How to make chocolate cake pops:

First, add broken up cake to a bowl. Time to get those hands dirty. I had some extra cake from when I made these Gluten Free Chocolate Raspberry Trifles, so I used that for this recipe.

Next, add vanilla frosting to the smooshed cake. Mix well so that you have a “cake paste” mixture.

Roll chunks of cake batter into balls and layout on a baking dish lined with wax paper.

Add lollipop sticks. Now here is the secret…take the sticks back out and spoon some melted chocolate into each hole.

Put the sticks back in and refrigerate for 30 minutes to solidify. This will keep the sticks attached to the cake balls when you dip them into the chocolate.

Melt chocolate.  Dip each pop into the melted chocolate and dust with your favorite sprinkles. Place back on the wax paper and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Enjoy!!

More Delicious Gluten Free Dessert Recipes:

• Gluten Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
• Minty Heart Fudge Bites
• Mini Gluten Free Champagne Cupcakes

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Things You Need To Make This Recipe:

1. Lollipop sticks (these are insanely inexpensive!)
2. The best melting chocolates.

How to make gluten free cake pops:

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Easy Gluten Free Cake Pops

Prep Time

20 mins

Total Time

20 mins

 

Step by step tutorial to make cake pops.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 10

Calories: 301 kcal

Author: Sandi Gaertner

Ingredients

• 2 cups gluten free chocolate cake baked
• 1/2 cup frosting
• 1 1/2 cups dark chocolate
• sprinkles optional

Instructions

1. Add cake to a bowl and use your hands to smoosh it up.

2. Add frosting and mix with your hands until it forms a ball

3. Break off small bits of cake pop dough and roll into balls. Place on wax paper.

4. Melt chocolate.

5. Dip a lollipop stick into the melted chocolate, then stick into each cake pop.

6. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

7. Remove from the refrigerator, re-melt the chocolate.

8. Dip each cake pop into the melted chocolate. Cover with sprinkles if you like.

9. Place in the refrigerator 1 hour until chilled.

Nutrition Facts

Easy Gluten Free Cake Pops

Amount Per Serving (1 g)

Calories 301 Calories from Fat 117

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 13g 20%

Saturated Fat 6g 30%

Polyunsaturated Fat 2g

Monounsaturated Fat 5g

Sodium 216mg 9%

Potassium 191mg 5%

Total Carbohydrates 50g 17%

Dietary Fiber 2g 8%

Sugars 31g

Protein 4g 8%

Vitamin A 0.2%

Calcium 3.9%

Iron 25.4%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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