These Mickey Mouse Cake Pops are perfect for a Mickey Mouse party or just when your kids are feeling nostalgic and recalling their time in Disney World. Make these Disney cake pops in no time and get ready to have fun.
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Why You'll Love These Mickey Mouse Cake Pops
- Family Involvement: My favorite part about these adorable cake pops is the fact that you can actually get your kids involved in making them too.
- Fun Kitchen Activity: It can be a fun way to get the kids involved in the kitchen and enjoy a Disney-inspired activity that they can actually eat after they're done.
- Perfect Party Treat: They're perfect for a Christmas party or just a simple kids playdate or Disney-inspired party, where you don't want to go the traditional way and make a Mickey cake.
Recipes Ingredients
- Cake Crumbled: Forms the base of your cake pops, providing a moist and flavorful bite in every pop.
- White Cake Frosting: Helps bind the crumbled cake together, creating the perfect consistency for your pops and adding an extra layer of sweetness.
- White Almond Bark: Acts as the coating for your cake pops, giving them a smooth finish and a delicious almond flavor.
- Chocolate Melt Wafers (Any Colors): Can be used to create the iconic Mickey Mouse silhouette or other decorative elements, adding a fun and colorful touch to your cake pops.
- Red Food Coloring: Can be added to your almond bark or chocolate melts to achieve Mickey's signature red color.
- Yellow Food Coloring: Can be used to create Mickey's iconic yellow shoes or other decorative elements on your cake pops.
- Cake Pop Sticks or Popsicle Sticks: Make your Mickey Mouse cake pops easy to handle and fun to eat, perfect for a party setting.
How To Make Mickey Mouse Cake Pops?
Step One: In a large mixing bowl, add the cake and frosting, and mix well until the cake becomes like firm batter. Form batter into 1 ½” balls. Set aside. Melt the white almond bark in a bowl using a microwave. Heat 30 seconds at a time until fully melted. Add a splash of oil if needed.
Step Two: Add a few drops of red coloring until you reach fire engine red. Dip the cake pop stick into the melted chocolate about a half inch. Then stick it into the cake ball. Repeat for all the Mickey mouse cake balls. Dip cake pops into the red chocolate until fully coated. Place upright in a holder or foam base to allow the chocolate to harden. Before the chocolate hardens, take two melting wafers and stick them in the cake pop to form Mickey’s ears.
Step Three: Melt the almond bark in a bowl using a microwave. Heat 30 seconds at a time until fully melted or according to package directions. Add a splash of oil if needed. Dip the hardened cake pops in the melted chocolate covering the Mickey's ear and half of the cake pops. Leaving the red exposed on the bottom.
Step Four: Melt half a block of white almond bark in a bowl using a microwave. Heat 30 seconds at a time until fully melted. Add a splash of oil if needed. Add a drop of yellow and mix. Once the cake pops have hardened, dab some yellow chocolate between the red and brown chocolate to form yellow buttons using an unused cake pop stick. Let the Mickey Mouse cake pops finish hardening and enjoy!
Expert Tips For Nailing This Cake Pop Recipe
- Melting Almond Bark: When melting the almond bark, make sure you use a microwave-safe bowl, and keep stirring the mixture several times in between until you get a smooth, even mixture.
- Frosting Flavor Variation: To bring in a bit of flavor variation, I would also recommend using cream cheese frosting instead of regular frosting to make the Mickey Mouse cake pop.
- Cake Flavor Choices: While you can use almost any flavor of cake to make cake pops, chocolate cake and red velvet cake are hands down, the best choices.
- Achieving the Perfect Shell: If the candy melting wafers aren't creating that perfect hard shell around the cake ball, you can add a couple of drops of vegetable oil into them and give it a good mix before you dip the cake balls in it.
- Adding Details: You can also add small details like Mickey's buttons or Minnie's bow using yellow sprinkles or other colored sprinkles or even just using a piping bag along with the melted candy melts.
- Uniform Surface Preparation: Remember to tap the Mickey Mouse cake pops lightly and remove the excess chocolate to get a uniform, clean surface to work with and add all the details on.
- Protecting the Work Surface: To keep the chocolate from getting on the surface of your countertop, spread parchment paper on your cookie sheet or working area.
Substitutions
- Black Candy Melts: I've used yellow food coloring to make the yellow candy coating. If you don't want to use yellow, you can also use black candy melts to make the eyes for the Mickey Mouse.
Variations
- Minnie Mouse: You can also bring in some variation to these and make Minnie Mouse cake pops in a similar way, just by adding a little bow!
How To Store Cake Pops
- Airtight Container: Place the wrapped Micky Mouse cake pops in an airtight container to preserve freshness.
- Refrigeration: Keep the container in the refrigerator for up to a week.
Mickey Mouse Cake Pops
Equipment
- 15 Cake Pop Sticks
Ingredients
- ½ Prepared cake crumbled (13x9 cake)
- 2 tablespoons of White cake frosting
- 4 cubes of White almond bark
- 4 cubes of Almond bark
- 30 Chocolate melt wafers any colors (for the ears)
- Red food coloring
- Yellow food coloring
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, add the cake and frosting, and mix well until the cake becomes like firm batter. Form batter into 1 ½” balls. Set aside.
- Melt the white almond bark in a bowl using a microwave. Heat 30 seconds at a time until fully melted. Add a splash of oil if needed. Add a few drops of red coloring until you reach fire engine red.
- Dip the cake pop stick into the melted chocolate about a half inch. Then stick it into the cake ball. Repeat for all the Mickey Mouse cake balls.
- Dip cake pops into the red chocolate until fully coated. Place upright in a holder or foam base to allow the chocolate to harden.
- Before the chocolate hardens, take two melting wafers and stick them in the cake pop to form Mickey’s ears.
- Melt the almond bark in a bowl using a microwave. Heat 30 seconds at a time until fully melted or according to package directions. Add a splash of oil if needed.
- Dip the hardened cake pops in the melted chocolate covering the Mickey's ear and half of the cake pops. Leaving the red exposed on the bottom.
- Melt half a block of white almond bark in a bowl using a microwave. Heat 30 seconds at a time until fully melted. Add a splash of oil if needed. Add a drop of yellow and mix.
- Once the cake pops have hardened, dab some yellow chocolate between the red and brown chocolate to form yellow buttons using an unused cake pop stick.
- Let the Mickey Mouse cake pops finish hardening and enjoy!
