Cake Pops: Ratio of cake crumbs to frosting?

Cake Pops: Ratio of cake crumbs to frosting? - Girl in Yellow Shirt Licking Icing on Spoon

I'd love to ask either of the following two questions:

  1. What's a good ratio of frosting to cake crumbs, when making cake pops?

  2. Does anyone know of a good website that lists baking ratios, including the frosting:cake crumb ratio for cake pops?



Best Answer

Cake pops all depend on moisture of the baked or scrap cake you are starting with (and about a hundred other factors including ambient temperature and humidity, fat %, age of cake, etc etc etc).

The best way to determine your ratio is to first start with your cake in a stand mixer (if you have one) with a paddle attachment. Mix the pieces of cake on low speed and slowly work up to medium speed. Once it's all crumbed and uniform, grab a handful or one cake pop worth of cake and give it a squeeze. Does it form a ball on its own? If it's close to forming as is, add very little frosting/icing/buttercream. If it's still loose and crumbly, add a small amount of your frosting/icing/buttercream and continue mixing and test the batch again by squeezing a portion.

A little trick: to help in binding the mixture and to incorporate the sweet component of the icing (without adding so much icing it becomes too loose), add a good dusting of icing sugar before the icing while you are mixing/crumb-ing.

Hope that helps, cake pops can be tricky sometimes, epsecially with very fresh cake or very stale/hard edged cake. There's no specific fool-proof formula for these.




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How do you make cake pops ratio?

The cake to icing ratio for cake pops is totally up to you and the desired finished texture you want for your pops. My suggestion is to start with 3 cups of cake and \u2153 cup of frosting. Adjust as needed by simply going be feel.

Can you add too much frosting to cake pops?

Solution: Too much icing makes cake pops mushy and gives the truffles a grainy texture. I don't like them, so I substitute the frosting with a creamy smooth ganache to bind the cake crumble. The end result is luxurious without the grainy texture.

Does whipped frosting work for cake pops?

Instead of loading your cake pops with sugary dry frostings, add a generous amount of whipped cream-plain or flavoured, to bind your cake crumbs . It will keep your cake pops moist.



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