Edible lollipop sticks for a complicated birthday cake

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I'm baking a cake for my sister. Though the cake will be simple. I decided to make chocolate cupcake lollipops. The cupcakes will read out her traits like nice, awesome etc. I need some advice on how to make edible sticks which will be connecting the base cake and the cupcakes.

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I want them to be edible because long story short she always wondered why is there the point of the stick if its not eatable when she was young.

I also want to know how to prevent the cupcakes from sagging down and dropping on the base cake.



Best Answer

The brainstorming in the comments has provided numerous examples:

  • Candy cigarettes

    These are likely the most realistic sticks you will find, as they're usually completely white, but fairly soft so use care when attaching the muffin to the top:

    Image of Supersonic Candy Cigarettes

  • Pocky / Mikado

    These are chocolate covered biscuit sticks, they're much more sturdy but not the right colour:

    Image of Chocolate Pocky

    There is also a Cookies & Cream flavoured Pocky, marketed as Pocky Panda, which is white and the closest resemblance they make. This may require being purchased from the internet though as I'd never heard of them before:

    Image of Pocky Panda

  • Rolled Chocolate Wafer Biscuits

    These are simply tubes of wafer biscuits, typically filled with chocolate, such as DeBeukelaer Pirouline and Pepperidge Farm Pirouette:

    Image of a Pirouline

  • Stick Candy and Rock

    Quite simply sticks made out of candy, I suspect Rock will be less common outside the United Kingdom, but Stick Candy should be simple to find.

    Rock is a hard candy tube up to an inch thick which could support a table, nevermind a cupcake:

    Image of Brighton Rock

    Stick Candy is basically un-bent candy canes and less thick than rock, though very similar:

    Image of Stick Candy




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