Here’s a fun and easy way to decorate cake pops for Valentine’s Day!
First, make your favorite cake pop recipe, form the balls and chill. (If you’ve never made cake pops, here’s a great tutorial).
I used Wilton’s candy melts for the outer coating. When melting your candy melts, it helps to use a deep narrow dish (like a drinking glass) so you can easily submerge the cake balls. (Just make sure the container you choose is microwaveable).
Once your candy melts are ready to use, push a lollipop stick all the way through a cake ball. Dip the cake ball into the candy melt, completely submerging it, then let the excess candy melt drip off.
Place the cake balls on their side on a piece of wax paper, then remove the stick. If you’re adding sprinkles, do that now before the candy melt hardens. I reused a couple sticks over and over to dip all the cake balls.
Once the candy coating is completely dry, push a clean lollipop stick into the cake ball, using the same hole you created when you dipped it. I used 3″ lollipop sticks for mine. You might meet a little resistance when pushing through the candy layer at the far end of the ball. Just push gently. A small chunk of the candy coating broke off a few of mine when I pushed the stick all the way through, but they still looked fine.
Now for the arrows.. I used a Fiskars pop-up heart punch to make the hearts for the arrow tips out of red cardstock. I used a tape runner to add a little adhesive to the back of the heart and stick it onto the lollipop stick. I think heart shaped stickers would work great for this too. For the “feathers” on the back of the arrow, I cut sparkly red pipe cleaner in approximately 1″ strips and just wrapped a couple around the stick.
And that’s it! Do you do anything special for Valentine’s Day? I’d love to hear about it in the comments.
I hope the rest of your day is fantastic!!
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Oh my gosh..lthese are too pretty to eat! I never would have thought to make these into arrows. Creative and fun!
Thank you! I wish my husband and sons would have thought they were too pretty to eat while I ran to the grocery! There’s a reason there’s only 2 cake pops in the photos…. 🙂
Love cake pops and these look adorable for Valentines Day. I don’t normally pretty up the food for Valentines, but I really should as these are so cute!
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Thank so much, Catherine!
These look yummy and adorable! I try to do something fun and simple to help my kids to celebrate Valentines day, this might be thing to do with them. Who does not love to bake, play with sprinkles and then eat it!
Thanks, Emily!! My kids love to help bake. My 4 year old actually helped with these :).
I LOVE these! Such a great idea to add character to a holiday treat! I will definitely be trying these one day. Pinning them 🙂 Following up from On Display Thursday!
Thank you, Lindi!!
Super cute! These look so delicious 🙂 Love the little arrows!
Thanks, Erica!!
Amy these are SO cute! What a great idea to turn the sticks into little arrows! Love them!! 🙂
Thank you, Amanda!
These are adorable, Amy! I have never seen them decorated like this… what a great idea! Have a great weekend 🙂
Thanks, Kendra :). Hope you have a great weekend too and safe travels!
These are so cute! I tried making cake pops for the first time last month and my boys LOVED them.I’m going to have to make these for them for Valentine’s Day. Thanks for the great idea!
Thanks, Sydney! I don’t make cake pops often because they’re just so much more work than a regular cake! But these were fun to make and my 4 year old loved helping :).
SO cute, Amy! If I had the patience to make cake pops, I would make these for sure. They’re adorable.
Haha, I hear you!! Cake pops are definitely more work, but they’re so cute!
Oh my gosh these are soo stinkin cute!!! Thank you for sharing with us at Merry Monday!
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Thanks Amanda! I’ll be sure to stop by and check it out. Love MM, and I appreciate the share 🙂
Love these cute cake pops! Such a great idea to make the stick into an arrow.
Thank you, Erlene!
I love cake pops and Valentine’s Day, so these little treats are sure to make it to our little family Valentine’s Day party! They look so fun and festive! I can’t wait to try them! Thanks for sharing! PINNED!
I couldn’t resist buying some candy melts that were 50% off at Michael’s the other day and now I know exactly how to use them! These are so cute!
~Meaghan
Yay for 50% off! These were so fun to make (and eat!) :). I’m so glad you like them!