Heart Cakesicles

These incredibly easy-to-make heart cakesicles are perfect for celebrating Valentine's Day, anniversaries, wedding showers, and more! You can make them with any flavor of cake and chocolate coating and decorate them in a multitude of fun ways.

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• 🗒 Ingredients and Equipment
• ❤️ How to make heart cakesicles
• ⏲️ How to store
• 🎉 Tips and tricks
• 💘 More Valentine's Day recipes
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

I'm in love with making cakesicles as the ultimate party treat that can easily fool anyone into thinking you are a master baker and decorator.

Don't get me wrong; I can bake an incredibly delicious cake; but making it look pretty? Not my strong suit. And the few times I've made cake pops, it was nearly impossible to discern what they were supposed to be with my shoddy decorating skills.

But cakesicles? They're so much easier to make and decorate. Plus, I think they're way more fun to eat.

I've made lots of mini cakesicles before, but these heart cakesicles are perfect for Valentine's Day or wedding showers, baby showers, or anniversary parties.

🗒 Ingredients and Equipment

You don't need many ingredients for cakesicles and you can even use boxed cake mix to make them if you choose! You will need to purchase a few items before making.

Here's what they require (be sure to view the recipe card at the bottom of this post for ingredient amounts and full recipe instructions):

• Heart cakesicle mold: I linked the mold I use- they are "jumbo" size hearts, but the smallest I could find and ultimately make a great large heart caksicle.

• Popsicle sticks: some molds come with them or you can purchase them separately.

• ½ of a 9x13" cake or one 9" cake: you can use a boxed cake mix or make your own homemade cake (this is also a great way to use leftover cake!) in any flavor you want. I used strawberry cake here, but red velvet would also be perfect for Valentine's Day. Or you can stick to simple chocolate or vanilla cake.

• Frosting: Again, you can make your own homemade frosting or use store-bought and you can use any flavor you want. I used vanilla frosting with the strawberry cake.

• Chocolate melting wafers, candy melts, or high-quality chocolate: you can either coat your cakesicles with white chocolate, milk chocolate, or dark chocolate. I used both dark chocolate melts and white chocolate melts for mine. You could even use pink or red candy melts/melting wafers if you prefer. I don't recommend using chocolate chips as they're harder to melt.

• Decorating materials: you can decorate your heart cakesicles however you want, but I recommend getting some fun Valentine's Day sprinkles, rose sprinkles, white and gold sprinkles, or blue or pink baby shower sprinkles. I also brushed edible glitter on my cakesicles. You may also want food coloring to color white chocolate for decorating.

❤️ How to make heart cakesicles

Once you have all your materials ready, including your baked and cooled cake, you're ready to get started!

Break the cake into pieces and place it in a bowl. Add frosting.

Either using your hands or the paddle attachment of a stand mixer, mix everything together until it's cohesive.

Put melting wafers or chocolate in a bowl and melt in the microwave (I recommend using 50% heat for 1 minute and then stirring before placing back in the microwave and using 50% heat for 30 seconds. Take out and stir. Continue until chocolate is melted).

If you prefer to use a double boiler, you can. I like to work with about 1 cup of candy melts at a time and simply add more to the bowl and re-melt when needed. If chocolate hardens while you're working, simply put the bowl back in the microwave to re-melt.

Spoon some of the chocolate into the bottom your heart cakesicle mold and using a small off-set spatula or a pastry brush, evenly distribute chocolate along the entire bottom of the mold and up the sides.

Take one of the popsicle sticks and insert it into the mold and then remove it. This is simply to ensure that the chocolate doesn't harden over the opening as you'll need to insert the stick later.

Place the molds in the fridge for 5 minutes to harden. Upon removal, check sides of molds and if the chocolate looks thin, brush a little more on and let harden again.

Put about 4 tablespoon of cake mixture over the hardened chocolate in each mold and press down. Make sure it's nice and smooth with no crumbs and that it's just below the lip of the mold. Insert a popsicle stick into each mold and press down on the cake again.

Coat the cake with more melted chocolate (this will be the back of the cakesicles). Place in the fridge for 5 minutes to harden.

Gently remove cakesicles from their molds. You'll have to wiggle them a little and take care when pushing the popsicle stick out.

I couldn't decide what to do, so I made both dark chocolate and white chocolate hearts!

I figured both would be delicious with the strawberry cake inside.

Now you're ready to decorate those heart cakesicles!

Brush a little more melted chocolate on the cakesicles (you can use food coloring to add color to white chocolate if you want) to adhere sprinkles or anything else you want to use to adorn your pops.

Since my decorating skills are pretty subpar, I stuck to just edible glitter and sprinkles.

Simple and pretty.

But you should feel free to go wild and decorate these hearts however your heart desires!

And please share your finished Valentine's Day cakesicles with me when you're done!

⏲️ How to store

I recommend always storing cakesicles in an airtight container at room temperature as condensation may form on them if you put them in the fridge.

They're best stored with wax paper or parchment paper separating layers of cakesicles instead of stacking them right on each other.

🎉 Tips and tricks

Though cakesicles are so much easier to make than cake pops and other similar desserts, you may still need to do some trouble-shooting.

Here are some tips and tricks to help you make the best cakesicles possible:

• If you notice your cakesicles are cracking, you may not be coating the molds thickly enough. You may want to consider brushing a second layer on after the first sets or brushing it on a little bit thicker. Pay close attention to the sides of the molds as you're brushing the coating on as you want to make sure it's nice and thick there.

• You may also want to use a second layer of chocolate if you're using white chocolate or white candy melts and chocolate cake as it's possible you'll be able to see the cake through just one layer.

• When you remove the cakesicles from the molds, make sure you're doing so very carefully. I recommend popping them out and then slowly jiggling the popsicle stick to slide it through the mold. If you push the popsicle stick, you'll likely push it out of the cakesicle. These heart caksicles are bigger than the typical minis I make, so be extra careful when removing them.

• I recommend staying away from using chocolate chips for your chocolate and sticking to a specific melting chocolate or high-quality chocolate bar. Chocolate chips are prone to seizing and can get grainy when melted. I find them much. more difficult to use and they can add a lot of frustration to the project.

I'd certainly rather have these heart cakesicles than a bunch of flowers!

They also make the perfect anniversary gift or wedding favor. Or just a way to show someone you love them

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