I just bought one today, ended up being 15.0, with a Kohl's card and coupon. I'll maybe play with it tomorrow evening...I hope. i have a busy week,I hope to try it soon, so I know if I'll like it.

I don't like the cake pops with icing and cake. They tasted too sweet, and too gooey, and not cooked. I'm happy to have these, and to have finally found a store locally, carrying Mercken's.

Just a heads up, my Kohl's circular in today's paper said these were on sale for$ 19.99.

I looked through the instructions and recipes, and am pleased the recipes are made from scratch. I need to make a class cake tonight, I will have extra batter, so maybe I'll make some cake balls with it. (instead of practicing piping...lol)

Hi everyone, I want to share my expirience with the machine. I had to make 44 cake balls in a short notice. I am so glad I had the machine but of course it was going to be an experiment since I did not know if the recipes I had were going to work. Before doing anything I had read this whole thread, which was so helpful.

My first cake balls were keylime. I used a disposable bag and filled the lower cavity more than full but not by too much. The balls came out perfectly round and were the perfect size. Then, I had to make other recipe which was banana with nuts, I was afraid because of the nut, but everything came out perfect, with this batter I had to fill the cavity a little bit more than the other recipe. At the end I made 75 cake balls in about 30-35 min.

I love the machine, but of course this is just good for round not the other designs!! lol

You can check my cake balls on my pics!!

Thank you so much!!

I have one on hold at Kohl's and will be going to get it this evening. They only had 2 left. I will be trying it out tonight or tomorrow. I have two dozen cake pops due for a baby shower so I am so giddy right now.

I ought to make a few with my extra cake batter, and bring them to my Wilton's class...oops, I'm coating them in Merkens.

I just scanned through the replies, but my only thing is that when I think of as cake pop... I don't think of the texture of actual cake. I think the dense and rich texture of a cake ball. So this would be a little off putting for me if I ordered cake pops and ended up with basically a round cupcake on a stick.

I'm sure they are lovely, but it's just not the same you know what I mean?

I like the idea of using cake batter instead of cake and icing.

lilmissbakesalot, I haven't started selling them yet, but I know what you mean about the two kinds. I also purchased the cake pop roller that uses the squished cake, which should be here by the end of May. I'll have to work on how I describe them to differentiate the two styles. And I don't think I should use the word, "squished". Ha!

LOL... true dat!

"Squished cake!!! Get yer squished cake here!!"

LOL

I'm not a huge fan of the cake truffles either... unless they are chocolate and laced with liquor of course!!

What am I doing wrong? I bought the pop maker from Kohls. I fill the batter to the rim, but when they are cooked, it never fills the whole cavity. They come out half to 3/4 of a ball. I tried to fill it more, but the batter pours out the sides. I waste more batter than use it. Please help!! Thanks.

TAZNY9, I haven't used mine, but did you read the first page where Jenn started the thread? You have to fill the batter past the rim. And it overflows.

I don't know what you're using. Some people are using the scoop (go back to first page and read Jenn's review) and some other people are using a piping bag.

Cristy-tutty said this: "I used a disposable bag and filled the lower cavity more than full but not by too much."

Maybe you need to put a little bit more batter in.

Yes, I tried with a scoop and also a bag. I used box mixes each time. I wonder if the batter was thicker it might work better? Thank you for you reply.

By accident I discovered that if you put your batter in the decorating bag and then in the fridge for a while the batter is thicker and you can squeeze it into the cavity and pull up on the bag creating a tip that will end up in the top making a full round cake pop... It worked for me anyway. Good luck

Great tip about refrigerating the batter. I had't gone all the way back to the beginning of the thread. Now I have. My bad!

Okay, so I got the cake pop maker home today. I have made about 3 batches of cake pops. I love the texture of them; however my dislike is that they are too small. My "homemade" cake pops are usually 2 to 3 bites, but these babies made with the machine are only one bite. So I think I will continue to use my regular method but will use these bite size ones as samples at the market this weekend.

The machine is fast and the cake pops are very rounded. I would recommed it to others. The company does need to make a bigger well for bigger pops...

I found a major mistake in the recipe booklet. I went to make French Breakfast puffs and made it exactly as written (except I messed up the butter, and added it, cause it didn't specify what to do with the butter.) anyway, I read the instructions, and it said, "mix the vanilla". Vanilla isn't listed in the recipe. Ofcourse, Penzey's double strength vanilla improves anything, so I added it, and didn't use nutmeg, but did use cinnamon. I wonder if they realize the mistake?

That's what I normally do. I did it with the bread machine, (It was an awful recipe) until I found recipes, and I stick to them. And the Wilton icing, I had to use the exact thing in the book, which tastes awful, until I needed chocolate, and realized my class problem was the icing. I found a perfect recipe on here.

I've had the Cake Pop maker for a week, but didn't have time to take it out of the box, even, So I read the instructions, and decided to make something from it. I really don't like the cake mix recipes using cake mix that are in the instructions, so I chose one from scratch,and the recipe wasn't even written right, lol.

After this cake class, I'll not be using cake mixes for anything, until the next one starts June 7th.

Hello Marlita, I used a disposable bag and filled the lower cavity more than full but not by too much..maybe is your recipe???

HI ladies! I'm making the red velvet ones for a little party today and wanted to know if anyone has used the injector to "inject" frosting in the balls and then do the candy coat? I really want to use cream cheese frosting inside them. Any tips?

TIA,

Yesterday, my second dozen did excellent, my first didn't brown on the top.

I used a white cake mix. I think that might have been part of the problem, it was a little thin. Do you guys turn them half way through?

Thanks Cristi-Tutty, I'm going to try another type of mix. I tried to see your pics on FB, but I got an error. I would love to see them.

Thanks! Marla

So after reading about these I went down to Washington State to find one. I mapped out the Kohls stores (in case I had to try them all). Well the first store didn't have them and I got someone to phone the others on my list. No one had them. grrrr
To help me get over the heartbreak we walked through the rest of the mall. There I saw another of my favorite stores, Kitchen Collection. Well as soon as we walked in I saw it. A cake pop/ donut hole maker. It wasn't Babycakes it was Bella Cucina. I thought since I wasn't going to be able to find a babycakes one today I might as well try this one. It was only $17.97 and I figured if I didn't like it I could always return it.
Well I tried it today and by the 2nd fill they were perfect (1st one didn't have enough batter). It took them 4.5 minutes in the machine. I rolled them in icing sugar and they were fabulous! This is a great substitution maching if you can't get one from Kohls. And I also saw them for sale at Target, but they were a little more there.
Happy baking!

Got my cake pop maker today! Finally found a Kohl's that had one in stock. I had way too much fun. I did 1/2 WASC (that's 1/2 of a single box mix) and it made 60 cake balls.

To the original poster Jen, I also HATE how candy melts taste and about midway through making the ones I made tonight, I remembered I had some LorAnn's oils in the cabinet. I added a couple of drops of orange oil and it tasted so much better.

I would love some feedback from anyone who uses real chocolate to cover their cake balls or cake pops. I am not even a fan of merkins. I want to use chocolate chocolate but I can't figure out how to thin it out enough to coat and still have it set up correctly.

I am thrilled that the flavored candy melts taste much better.

Here is the pics of the ones I did tonight.

http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2048873

I did have one batch that didn't come out right because the top and bottom plates weren't aligned. The rest came out fine.