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Updated on October 2, 2026 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links · 6 Comments

Cake Pop Dough

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Cake pop dough is cake mixed with buttercream until it makes a dough

Cake pop dough is great for making cake pops (obviously) cakesicles or for adding dimension to your sculpted cakes. I use cake pop dough a lot to use up my leftover cake scraps when I'm making sculpted cakes. 

Cake pop dough tastes a bit like a brownie. It becomes dense and rich but still tastes amazing!

cake pop dough rolled into a ball and being placed onto a baking sheet

Recipe

Cake Pop Dough Recipe

Cake Pop Dough

If you're looking to make cake pops or cake clay, this is the perfect recipe!
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Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 3 cups
Calories: 79kcal
Author: Liz Marek

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 8" cake or cake scraps, any cake flavor
  • ¼ cup buttercream can also use swiss meringue, American buttercream or ganache

Instructions

Instructions

  • With gloved hands, crumble cake into a bowl.
  • Add buttercream.
  • Combine together with hands until cohesive mixture forms.

Notes

If mixture is too dry, add more buttercream. Can be used for cake pop dough or small portions of sculpted cakes.
For firmer dough, use ganache.

Nutrition

Calories: 79kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Fat: 3g | Sodium: 36mg | Sugar: 12g
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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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  1. Lucia Martinez says

    August 27, 2025 at 11:17 am

    Can I use your easy buttercream?

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    • Liz Marek says

      October 06, 2026 at 9:30 am

      Yes! Easy buttercream works great. If you have more questions, come ask me in the Sugar Geeks community: https://community.raptive.com/sugargeeks

      Reply
  2. Angelica says

    June 18, 2020 at 12:25 pm

    Can I use Italian meringue buttercream?

    Reply
    • Elizabeth Marek says

      June 19, 2020 at 9:32 am

      Yes you can

      Reply
  3. Melissa says

    May 15, 2020 at 3:51 pm

    5 stars
    Hi Liz!
    What do you recommend covering them in? Should I use real white chocolate or the candy melts? Thank you so much!

    Reply
  4. Emily says

    August 29, 2019 at 11:28 am

    5 stars
    Love this recipe! This is the perfect ratio, I always used to do too much frosting!

    Reply
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