Harry Potter Cakesicles Recipe

If you want small bite-size treats for a wizarding party that aren’t traditional cupcakes or cake, these Harry Potter cakesicles are perfect! Decorate them in Hogwarts House colors for muggles of all ages to enjoy.

Drizzled and sprinkled yellow and black cakesicles laid out on a black speckled background with a red and yellow striped scarf.

For easy party planning, be sure to see all of our Harry Potter party recipe ideas:

Drizzled and sprinkled yellow and black cakesicles laid out on a white background with a sorcerer's wand, Harry Potter glasses and striped scarf.

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How to Make Harry Potter Cakesicles

Yield: 12 pops | Prep Time: 10 mins| Freeze time: 25 mins | Total Time: 35 mins

Ingredients and Equipment

1 cup cake pop dough (options below)
1 cup blue, black, yellow, green, red, or white colored candy melts
1 tsp coconut oil per color
Harry Potter sprinkles
Popsicle sticks (I used reusable acrylic cakesicle sticks)
Piping bags
Silicone molds (these are the ones I used)

Directions

Options To Make Cake Pop Dough:

Option 1: Food Processor

Break up large chunks of pre-baked cake or cake scraps
Start blending on the thick setting and low speed for about 1-2 mins. Stir the cake to make sure the large pieces are broken up.
Change the setting to thin and the speed to high.
Mix for 1 minute and stir.
Pulse a few times to really break up the cake.
Add 1 tbsp of water, mix on thin and let it go for about 2-3 minutes.
Add one more tablespoon of water and hold the top cover.
Mix on thin setting/high speed for about 30-45 seconds. The cake will form a dough.

Option 2

Break up the cake into crumbs using a whisk or large spoon. Add a small spoonful of icing and mix for several minutes until it forms a dough.

*Both options form a cake pop dough; the food processor option will have a much nicer crumb and hold its shape more than the icing version.

Step One

Melt one color of the candy and 1 tsp coconut oil in 30-second increments. Stir every 30 seconds.

If there are still lumps after 60 seconds, heat for additional 15 seconds and stir out any lumps.

If using more than one color, repeat for the other colors.

Step Two

Pour the candy into the mold. Spread candy up the sides of the mold.

If more chocolate is needed to cover the center, make more using the same process as above.

Step Three

Slide in the popsicle sticks to the center of the molds.

Freeze for 15 minutes. When placing the molds in the freezer, it needs to be flat and the sticks cannot be pointed down inside the chocolate; they should hover above it.

If the stick won’t stay inside the dough, remove it from the mold, dip in the melted chocolate and insert into pop. Let stand for 10-15 minutes.

Step Four

Remove the trays from the freezer.

Add the cake pop dough to each mold. Be careful not to overfill the cavity.

Gently press the cake dough into the mold being careful not to break the chocolate.

Step Five

Cover the backs of the cake pops with melted chocolate. Clean up the eges as much as possible.

Freeze the molds for another 10 minutes to harden the chocolate.

Carefully remove the cakesicles from the molds using the following method:

Very carefully loosen one of the end pieces. Peeling the mold from the top, very carefully peel the entire pop free. Carefully push the sticks up through the mold. Rest on a parchment-lined baking sheet.