Skip the coffee shop! These copycat Starbucks cookies and cream cake pops blend your favorite cookies into bite-sized, frosted cake. They’re the perfect indulgence for a fraction of the cost!
Crumbled cake rolled into a ball and coated with white chocolate almond bark before being topped with crushed cookies. Does it get any better than that?
These cookies and cream cake pops are deliciously simple to make. With only five main ingredients you can easily whip them up for any gathering and they’re always a hit!
Though cookies and cream are an iconic flavor you can always switch it up a bit with the variations below.
Use these copycat Starbucks cookies and cream cake pops for parties, school fundraisers or girls’ night in. Either way, you’ll save money by making your own and have everyone asking for the recipe!
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What Are Cookies And Cream Cake Pops?
Cake pops are bite-sized treats on a stick that are made by rolling pre-made cake and frosting into balls. From there, you coat the balls in white chocolate and decorate them with crumbled cookies for maximum indulgence.
The result is a tasty, portable dessert that’s always a hit at parties. Or picnics.
❍ Before You Begin:
There is some prep work with these cookies and cream cake pops.
You will need to prepare a chocolate cake before starting and you’ll want to let it cool before crumbling and making it into balls. This way the cake doesn’t melt the other cake ball ingredients.
This recipe also uses almond bark in place of white chocolate to coat the cake pops. Almond bark is much easier to work with when it comes to dipping as it doesn’t clump as much.
⭐ Why We Love This Recipe ⭐
Minimal ingredients – you only need 5 main ingredients to create these cake pops.
Delicious – they’re the perfect flavor combination and come out extremely rich from mixing the Oreo filling into the balls.
Versatile – though cookies and cream cake pops are an amazing look, you can switch up how you decorate them based on the occasion.
Great for parties – cake pops make a great addition to any dessert table because they just look delicious. Couple that with the fact that they’re easy to transport and they’re the perfect treat.
🧾 Ingredients Needed
Prepared chocolate cake – you need a pre-made cake for the cake pops. Ideally in a 13×9 size pan. Let it cool completely and then use your hands to crumble it.
White cake frosting – this is what helps hold the cake balls together before they’re coated.
Cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies – Oreo being the most common brand, but any will work. You need both the creamy inside as well as the outer cookie for the recipe so take care of separating them.
Almond bark – you can use white chocolate chips (you need a 12-ounce bag if you do) but almond bark tends to melt smoother and is easier for dipping.
Cake pop sticks – I absolutely love these reusable cake pop sticks! They hold up well and minimize the waste from dessert.
📌 Be sure to see the recipe card below for the full ingredients list with quantities and step-by-step instructions!
🔁 Variations
One of the most fun things about Copycat Starbucks cookies and cream cake pops is that the basic flavor is amazing. However, they’re also really easy to alter based on the season of festivities!
What you want to do is make the base of the cookies and cream cake pops and then decorate them with any of the ideas below.
Christmas – skip the crumbled cookies and sprinkle on crushed candy canes instead.
Halloween or Fall – after dipping the cake pops you can decorate them with skeleton candy or drizzle them with caramel sauce.
Valentine’s Day – dust them with pink glitter sprinkles.
🥣 How to Make
STEP 1: In a large mixing bowl, add the cake, frosting, and cream filling from the cookies. Mix well until the cake becomes like firm batter.
STEP 2: Mold the batter into 1 ½” balls and set aside.
STEP 3: Melt the almond bark slowly in the microwave and add a splash of oil if needed.
STEP 4: One by one, dip the cake pop stick into the melted chocolate about a half inch. Then stick it into a cake ball.
STEP 5: In a blender or food processor, pulverize the chocolate cookies to make cookie crumbs.
STEP 6: Dip cake pops into the melted chocolate until fully coated. Place upright in a holder or foam base and sprinkle crumbs on top before the chocolate hardens.
⭐ Pro Tips ⭐
Make sure the cake you use is cooled so that it doesn’t melt too much of the frosting when added.
Mix carefully and well. The better you mix the ball ingredients the better that they will hold together for dipping. You want the batter to be dough-like.
For the best results, use a cookie scoop to make the cake balls. This way, each cake pop is uniform in size. I personally used this cookie scoop for the balls.
You can store the cake pops in an airtight container for 1-2 days. Let them come to room temperature before you serve them.
Fun parent hack: Take copycat cake pop with you to Starbucks and “order” a cake pop for the kids while you get your mid-afternoon fuel!
📝 Recipe FAQs
The trick to making moist cake pops is to make sure you have enough frosting mixed into the crumbled cake. Not only does this give them a rich and indulgent flavor but it makes it so that the batter is like cookie dough, super moist.
First, make sure your melted chocolate is thin enough to dip. Thicker or clumpy chocolate won’t coat the cake pops properly. Then, have your cake pops come to room temperature before dipping. If you place them in the freezer or even chill them, it can cause the chocolate to harden as you dip which creates clumps.
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📖 Recipe
Copycat Starbucks Cookies and Cream Cake Pops
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ prepared chocolate cake crumbled (13×9 cake)
- 2 tablespoons of white cake frosting
- 6 cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies (Oreo brand or generic) – save the cookies for the next ingredient
- 6 cookies with cream filling removed
- 4 cubes white almond bark
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, add the cake, frosting, and cream filling from the cookies. Mix well until the cake becomes like firm batter. Set cookies aside.
- Form batter into 1 ½” balls. Set aside.
- Melt the almond bark in a bowl using a microwave. Heat 30 seconds at a time until fully melted. Add a splash of oil if needed.
- Dip the cake pop stick into the melted chocolate about a half inch. Then stick it into the cake ball. Repeat for all the cake balls.
- In a blender, pulverize the chocolate cookies to make cookie crumbs.
- Take the cake pops that were first to receive their sticks and dip them into the melted chocolate until fully coated. Place upright in a holder or foam base to allow the chocolate to harden, sprinkle crumbs on top of the cake pops before the chocolate hardens.
- Enjoy, parent tip. Take one with you to Starbucks and “order” a cake pop for the kids while you get your mid-afternoon fuel!
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