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How to make Elephant Cake Pops

    You’re going to love creating these at home. Learn How to make Elephant Cake Pops for a baby shower or birthday celebration.

    You're going to love creating these at home. Learn How to make Elephant Cake Pops for a baby shower or birthday celebration.

    Elephant Cake Pop Tutorial

    What could be more perfect for a baby shower??  They are so easy to make, trust me. I made a dozen of them in an hour. The key is to have all your decorations ready to go.

    This was my first time making elephants and to tell ya the truth, they kinda intimidated me. However, I was chatting with my friend Jennie from The Cake Pop Shop and she had the cutest little elephants all dressed up for Christmas! If you love cake pops, you need to follow Jennie on IG @the_CakePop_Shop to see her making some fun cake pops.

    You're going to love creating these at home. Learn How to make Elephant Cake Pops for a baby shower or birthday celebration.

    We are celebrating the addition to the Clark’s Condensed Family! Katie Clark, from Clark’s Condensed and The Blog Help is going to be welcoming their second son at the end of September.

    Check out all of these great Baby Shower Ideas

    You can learn how to make cake pop dough here.

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    Yield: 10-12

    How to Make Elephant Cake Pops

    You're going to love creating these at home. Learn How to make Elephant Cake Pops for a baby shower or birthday celebration.

    You're going to love creating these at home. Learn How to make Elephant Cake Pops for a baby shower or birthday celebration.

    Prep Time 1 hour
    Active Time 1 hour
    Total Time 2 hours

    Ingredients

    • Cake and frosting – I used 1/4 of a baked 9×13 cake and added 1 – 2 tablespoons of canned frosting to it.
    • Mini dehydrated marshmallows for the feet
    • 4 parts White candy melts and 1 part black candy melts to make a pale grey color
    • Blue Candy Wafers
    • Mini Heart Sprinkles
    • Lollipop sticks
    • Edible Marker - Black

    Instructions

    1. Mix the cake and frosting together in a stand up mixer or in a food processor. Let the machine do all the work and work it into a play-doh like consistency. Check out my YouTube video on making the dough
    2. Use a 1 tablespoon cookie scoop to measure out the dough. I got 12 cake balls from 1/4 of a cake. Don’t make them too big. 1 tablespoon is the perfect size.
    3. Smoosh and roll the dough smooth and place them into the fridge to chill out while you prepare the rest of the accessories.
    4. You’ll want two blue candy wafers for each pop – those are the ears. You’ll also want to cut a wafer to make the trunk. I used used a large piping tip to cut a crescent shapes into the wafer. I got two trunks per wafer. Then we will use the mini dehydrated marshmallows for the feet and give each little elephant a little heart for their trunks. Set all them aside and ready to go. It’s a good idea to have needle nose tweezers to help position the candy.
    5. Melt the white and black candy melts and slowly mix together. You’ll want a light grey color, it will dry darker in my experience. Remove the cake balls from the fridge and gather up your lollipop sticks.
    6. Dip a stick into the melted candy and insert it into the cake ball. Attach the mini marshmallow to the bottom to make the legs using the candy as the glue. It may help to use tweezers (I use a needle nose one like this) to handle the small candies.
    7. Then dip the candy crescent in the grey candy and push it into the cake ball to make a trunk. It’ll look a little odd, but it all. If you crack your cake ball, just smooth some melted candy over the crack and leave it to harden.
    8. Once all the balls are sticked and prepped, dip the cake pop into the grey candy and cover it completely. Tap off the excess off the back of the elephant’s behind. Let a little bit dangle off a for a count of three and then stand it up. That's how I made a little tail on the elephant. Quickly press the blue wafers to make the ears and add the little heart to the tip of the trunk. Stand up the cake pop to dry.
    9. Complete all of the elephants and then clean up your area.
    10. Get a black edible marker, draw on the eyes and you’re done!

    You're going to love creating these at home. Learn How to make Elephant Cake Pops for a baby shower or birthday celebration.

    Notes

    These were for a baby boy’s shower, so I baked my cake then divided the batter into two 8″ round pans. I colored one pan blue using the Wilton Color Right system – 5 drops blue and one drop black. They turned out perfectly. I love this color!

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    Karyn Granrud

    Karyn Granrud

    I'm Karyn, a mom and wife, and I founded this little baking blog. Baking and making desserts have been my passion since I was a kid. I love experimenting with different flavors and sharing delicious recipes with all of you. Read more.

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