Elephant Cake Pops are an adorable treat for baby showers and kid’s parties. They’re easier to make than you think!
Hi everyone! Karyn from Pint Sized Baker, back again with another amazing Cake Pop Tutorial! Today, I’ve got some cute little Elephant Cake Pops that are perfect for a or birthday party. These little guys are so cute and you will be pleased to see how easy they are to make. Trust me – you can do this.
To make these Elephant Cake Pops, you will need a few supplies to start –
- 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
- Black Edible Pen
These are 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!
To make the cake balls, 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. 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. Smoosh and roll the dough smooth and place them into the fridge to chill out while you prepare the rest of the accessories.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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 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.
Complete all of the elephants and then clean up your area. Get a black edible marker, draw on the eyes and you’re done!
See? That wasn’t too hard was it??
Want to change up a few things?? I get it, you want a challenge. In place of the candy wafer trunk, you can use a banana runt candy, or fashion one out of a tootsie roll. Roll out some fondant and make some ears that hug the body a bit more.
Amazon Disclosure: This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. All opinions are my own, but I only promote things that I love and think you will love, too! This does not increase the cost to you, but does help support Juggling Act Mama. For more information, please see our Disclosure Policy.
You totally got this! Go on and make an entire menagerie of little elephants!
Perfectly poised cake pops! Easy to make and beautifully stunning! Get the tutorial and supplies from Pint Sized Baker by clicking the image above.
Fun Cake Pops with wine bottles and grapes for a fun ladies night treat!
Gold, Gold, Gold! Gimme the Gold and a few yummy cake pops! Perfect for a Pirate themed Birthday Party!
These are seriously the cutest cake pops ever!!
Karyn you killed these! They are so cute and I love the blue cake inside!
definitely making these for my first grandchild baby shower in December but I will have to go with purple
Where do you get mini dehydrated marshmallows? Are these different than regular mini marshmallows?
You can find these Kraft Jet-puffed Mallow Bits Vanilla Flavor Marshmallows,3 oz in a grocery store with the other marshmallows.
I will be making these but with pink for my cousins baby shower, I am a little concerned that the wafers will slide ride down the sides of the pops, did you see this as a problem? Thinking I may add them later once the pops have hardened a bit more.
We didn’t have a problem with that, we just held them in place for a few extra seconds until they started to set. Good luck! 🙂
How far ahead can these be made? Can they be frozen? (the elephant cake pops)
You can freeze the cake pops once dipped and set, but I wouldn’t freeze them with the decorations as they’re more likely to fall off.
I made the cakepops for one of my friend’s baby shower it was a hit. Thanks for posting it with directions??
The few times I’ve made cake pops I’ve had trouble getting the candy melts to a liquid consistency that I could dip the cake pops in without them either falling off the stick or it not sticking to the cake pop. Too much heat seems to harden the candy melts. Any tips or suggestions?
Read over the instructions on the package for your candy melts – they vary by brand. Since microwaves can vary as well, I often will do less time than recommended to make sure it doesn’t seize up. You can always add more time. Good luck!
Eee, these are so cute! Can someone find a cuter, rounder animal better suited to being cake pops? Didn’t think so. Amazing.