• Begin with an unfrosted baked and cooled cake in the flavor of your choice. You can bake a sheet pan cake or buy a cake from the grocery store bakery for this recipe.
• Crumble the cake into a large bowl and set aside. You can do this quickly with your hands.

Make the frosting

• Remember, we are not making the same type of frosting you use on the outside of a regular cake which would be too wet for cake pops. We only want enough moisture to stick the cake together for rolling into the ball shape. You are going to get that scrumptious cake and frosting flavor combination we all love.
• In a large mixing bowl, add the butter and beat on low until it begins to soften. Then slowly add a little of the powdered sugar followed by the milk. adjust the mixer to medium speed. Next, add the remaining powdered sugar a little at a time to avoid blowback.

Create cake balls

• Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside. This is a great way to make clean up easier.
• Pour the crumbled cake in the bowl over the frosting and combine using your hands or a mixer on low speed. I like to use my hands but I wear gloves that can be thrown away when I’m done just like when mixing meatloaf.
• Once you have combined the cake and frosting, form your cake mixture into balls. Use a Tablespoon size cookie scoop to dip the batter. If you don’t have the cookie scoop, you can use the old fashioned method like I do, eyeball it! Quarter-size balls work well.
• Then shape into balls and place them on the cookie sheet. One tablespoon each should yield about 48 cake pop balls.

Candy Coating

• Melt the candy melts in a small bowl following the package directions. We are only using white candy melts for the outside coating because we are going to make our Patriotic Cake Balls look fancy schmancy with the red and blue candy melts drizzled over them and a few fun sprinkles.
• Dip each cake ball in the white melted candy using a fork and roll it around the bowl to coat it evenly. Transfer the coated ball to your covered cookie sheet.
• I like to place a cooling rack on the cookie sheet so any drips can fall onto the waxed paper underneath.
• Melt about a half cup each of the blue and red candy melts. Then drizzle each onto your dried cake pop balls in a pattern of your choosing. Drizzle one color and then the other.
• Now it is time to add the fun candy sprinkles. Do this quickly before the drizzled melt dries so the sprinkles will stick better.
• Serve and enjoy!