Cake-Based Candy Recipes

Cake pops, moist bites of cake and frosting on a stick, are all the rage now! Check out this collection of cake pop recipes, which also includes brownie pops, cheesecake pops, and seasonal cake pop variations.

Red Velvet Cake Truffles are simply balls of delicious red velvet cake mixed with real cream cheese frosting. The truffles are then dipped in candy coating, for a moist, sweet, and tangy cake bite in candy form! You can use this recipe with any flavor of cake or frosting. There's also a photo tutorial showing how to make red velvet cake truffles.

Moist, tender cake and sweet berries are blended into a smooth truffle filling and covered in vanilla-scented white chocolate in this recipe for Strawberry Shortcake Truffles. This is a great way to use up leftover yellow or pound cake.

These gooey, delicious bars are a cross between cake, fudge, and truffles. Real chocolate cake is mixed into a chocolate ganache base, topped with rich chocolate-pecan frosting, and finished with silky ganache.

Brownie Truffles are made from baked brownies and raspberry jam, so the candies have a rich chocolate-raspberry flavor. These delicious treats are dipped in chocolate to make an easy, elegant dessert. This recipe is a great way to use up old or slightly stale brownies.

This is one fruitcake recipe you'll actually want to eat! Transform those ubiquitous holiday fruitcakes from "gross" to "great" by making them into cake truffles or cake pops. When mixed with frosting and formed into balls, lackluster fruitcake becomes moist, spicy bites of candy studded with fruit and spices.

This Blueberry Muffin Truffles recipe uses real blueberry muffins and cream cheese frosting to make delicious, moist white chocolate-covered truffles.

Chocolate Salami may sound questionable, but it's actually a beautiful log of chocolate studded with an assortment of dried fruits and nuts. It’s a great way to use up leftover cake or cookie crumbs, and can be customized with any fruits and nuts you like.

Pumpkin bread and cream cheese frosting form the base for these delicious pumpkin bread truffles that have a vibrant spiced pumpkin taste. The pumpkin bread truffles are dipped in white chocolate, then rolled in cinnamon-sugar for a crunchy, spiced outer coating that perfectly complements the soft center.