Popsicles are such a fun thing to make during the summer. You can make them fruity, colorful, healthy, indulgent, themed – the choice is yours. Naturally, I wanted mine to taste like cake batter and have sprinkles…shocking right?
These Cake Batter popsicles are so creamy. They’re also colorful and tasty. I think they’d be so much fun to make for a birthday party during the summer. Cake batter flavor, sprinkles and something cold for these hot summer days, sounds pretty good to me.
If I may, I’d just like to put it out there that popsicles are one of the most difficult subjects to take pictures of. By the time you’ve got everything set up, your popsicles are starting to melt. I’m sure the 90 degree South Florida heat didn’t help my case but it worked out.
These popsicles can be made using vanilla ice cream, yellow cake mix, a little vanilla extract, milk, and of course sprinkles. You can’t have cake batter without sprinkles. I wanted these popsicles to be super creamy and have an ice cream like texture, so I figured there were no substitutions but to use the real thing. Sometimes popsicles can come out icy and I wanted to avoid that. I pretty much was looking for cake batter ice cream on a stick. Luckily, that’s exactly what these are.
Something to consider when dealing with popsicles. When your ready to eat them, slightly thawing them is crucial. Store bought popsicles are typically wrapped in some sort of freezer wrapping, so they’re ready to go whenever. Not these babies. I found it easiest it take each popsicle mold (the ones I used detach from the tray) and run them under light, warm water for about 30 seconds. Make sure the water runs over all the sides of the popsicle mold so it thaws evenly. If you skip this step and try to take them out without thawing them, chances are you’ll just rip the popsicle stick right out of the actually popsicle and that’s just no fun.
Goodness I just said popsicle a lot.
Before I forget, this recipes makes 6 to 7 popsicles. I hope you guys enjoy these as much as I do!
Cake Batter Popsicles
Ingredients
- 3 cups of vanilla ice cream
- 3/4 cup yellow cake mix
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup sprinkles I used jimmies, nonpareils may turn your ice cream tie dye
Instructions
- Combine ice cream, cake mix, vanilla extract, and milk in a blender and blend on medium speed until thoroughly combined and smooth. Pour mixture into a bowl and mix in sprinkles. Spoon mixture into popsicles molds and freeze for at least 4 hours or over night. After 1 hour you can stick wood popsicles sticks in the molds if not using the holders that come with your popsicle molds.
- When ready to serve, run luke warm water over popsicles molds for about 30 seconds to 1 minute. Let popsicles thaw for another minute or two before pulling from plastic molds.
Notes
- *4 hours indicated above is for freezing time
Looks tempting! I’d love to give this a try
This is such a cool idea *pun intended 🙂
My kids will enjoy making and eating these!
Thank you so much!
You’re very welcome! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Do you have to make the cake mix and then add to blender, or just the dry cake mix? Thanks!
Hi Lisa! You just want to add the dry cake mix, that’s it! Easy peasy 🙂
Hello! Finding these was an absolutely perfect way to start my Monday! Can’t wait to try them!
Thank you so much Lydia! I hope you love them 🙂
This looks amazing! Do you think this would work using a Nutribullet?
Hi Beth! Sorry for the late reply. I think a nutribullet will be just fine for this recipe. I have a ninja blender but there isn’t anything I can think of with this recipe that a nutribullet couldn’t handle. Good luck, I hope you enjoy them!
Where can I find Popsicle mold?
Hi Sandy! I found mine randomly at Marshalls but you can find them anywhere, target, walmart, etc. This amazon link has the ones that I use: https://www.amazon.com/FREE-Ice-Choice-Set-Popsicle-Multicolor-Popsicles/dp/B00GDI35GO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468682002&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=popsicles+molds&psc=1
Hope this helps!
Is the dry cake mix safe to eat?
Using the dry cake mix as an ingredient for this recipe is fine. I would not recommend just eating dry cake mix, it’s simply used to add flavor to this particular recipe.
This look delicious I can’t wait to give this a try one day! 😀
We had these for dessert last night. They’re really good! Next time I might put in a little less cake mix, because I thought they were a little grainy, but since the kids didn’t say anything, maybe I won’t. I wonder how they’d be with chocolate ice cream and cake mix! (I found this recipe through a Women’s Day collection of popsicle recipes.)
Chocolate ice cream with chocolate cake mix sounds AMAZING! I’m glad your family enjoyed them 🙂