I added cake pops to my menu this year. Every flavor so far has been fine with no problems, but for some reason when I use carrot cake as my cake for the cake pops my sticks turn yellow-y orange like this (white cake pop w/ silver flower): *This change in color on the stick doesn't happen immediately...it generally occurs within the next 24 hours from completion of the cake pops.
Luckily this was made for a family member but does anyone else have this problem or know a way to prevent this from ever happening again?
My cake pops are made from a mix of crumbled cake and buttercream. I dip my stick in the candy coating before inserting it into the cake ball as well. Any advice or suggestions would be great!
It's just the colour from the cake being absorbed into the paper stick from the centre of the pop and making it's way down/up it. There's nothing you can do, other than use plastic sticks. It happens to me too, if that's any consolation, though only with red velvet cake pops, chocolate seems fine!
You might try pre-dipping the sticks to coat them. Then dip the sticks again right before inserting in the cake pop.
The cakes I use for my pops are made from scratch (butter based recipe). I don't use much buttercream to bind the cake pops and use my kitchen aid stand mixer to make the "dough" as well. I tried the method of dipping the stick twice and it has worked pretty well for me so far. Thank you though! Also, I've heard that replacing applesauce for oil completely in box mixes can help with the yellow sticks (found out from both "@DivasDelights" and "@CakePoppn" on Instagram).
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