Fruit-Shaped Cake Pops

Take a bite out of summer anytime of year with these cute fruit-shaped cake pops. Decorated to look like lemons, limes, grapefruits, dragon fruits, kiwis, watermelons and papayas, these bright and colorful pops are decorated using Candy Melts candy. Use your favorite vanilla or chocolate cake recipe as the filling, then have fun trying all these fun candy decorating ideas! Serve them at your next party or celebration, or package them in treat bags and hand out as party favors.

Prep4 hr, 45 min
Total Time6 hr, 50 min
Skill LevelAdvanced

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Make cake pops. Prepare cake pops following recipe instructions, rolling mixture into medium-sized balls.
Flatten one side of each ball (this will be the front of the pop). Chill until set, about 1 hour.
Coat cake pops in candy.
FOR ALL – when inserting stick, flat side of cake pop should be facing you.
Melt candy, separately, according to package instructions:
- Green candy
- Yellow candy
- Orange candy
- Dark Yellow candy (combine equal amounts Orange and Yellow candy wafers)
- Light Cocoa candy
- Dark Pink candy (combine Bright Pink wafers with small amount Purple candy color)
- Bright White candy
Beginning with green candy, insert tip of stick into melted green candy, then into cake ball. Chill until set, about 10 minutes. Dip cake pop into melted green candy, tapping lightly on edge to remove excess.
Repeat process for a total of 6 green, 2 yellow, 2 orange, 2 dark yellow, 2 light cocoa and 2 dark pink cake pops. Chill until set, about 15 to 20 minutes.
Reserve all remaining candy.
Decorate cake pops.
Melt candy, separately, in the following amounts, according to package instructions (if applicable, use remaining melted candy from above):
- 8 oz. Bright White candy
- 2 oz. Green candy
- 2 oz. Bright Pink candy
- 6 oz. light green candy (3 oz. melted Green candy + 3 oz. melted Bright White candy)
- 2 oz. light yellow candy (1 oz. melted Yellow candy + 1 oz. melted Bright White candy)
- 2 oz. light orange candy (1 oz. melted Orange candy + 1 oz. melted Bright White candy)
- 2 oz. light pink candy (1 oz. melted Orange candy + 1 oz. melted Bright Pink candy)
- 3 oz. dark coral candy (2 oz. melted Orange candy + 1 oz. melted Bright Pink candy)
Place all melted candy, separately, into decorating bags. Cut ¼ in. off end of each bag. Keep candy warm on warming tray. Reserve all candy until pops are complete.
When chilling decorated pops, lay flat so candy doesn’t drip.
Lime, Lemon, Orange and Grapefruit cake pops: Using white candy, pipe disk, just smaller than the circumference of flat area, on 2 green, 2 yellow, 2 orange, and 2 dark yellow cake pops. Chill until set, about 10 minutes.
Pipe segments on white disks of pops (light green candy on green pops, light yellow candy on yellow pops, light orange candy on orange pops, light pink candy on dark yellow pops). Chill until set, about 15 to 20 minutes.
Kiwi Cake Pops: Using light green candy, pipe thick circle around flat edge of 2 Light Cocoa cake pops. Using green candy, pipe circle around the inner edge of the light green circle. Using Bright White candy, fill in center. Chill until set, about 15 to 20 minutes.
Using decorating brush and Black Candy Color, paint small dots along edge between green and white candy.
Papaya Cake Pops: Using light green candy, pipe thin circle around outer edge of 2 green cake pops. While light green candy is still wet, fill in center with dark coral candy. Chill until set, about 15 to 20 minutes.
Using decorating brush and Black candy color, paint small dots in center of pop.
Dragon Fruit Cake Pops: Using white candy, pipe disk on 2 bright pink cake pops, just smaller than the circumference of the flat area. Chill until set, about 15 to 20 minutes.
Using decorating brush and Black candy color, paint random seeds on white candy.
Watermelon Cake Pops: Using light green candy, pipe thin circle around outer edge of 2 green cake pops. Pipe small light green vertical lines around sides. Fill in center with Bright Pink candy. Chill until set, about 15 to 20 minutes. Using decorating brush and Black candy color, paint small teardrop seeds.