Pops! Pops! Pops! They are popping up everywhere! The “pop”ular trend these days is all about treats on a stick, especially cake balls. Just like the cupcake trend, these edible favorites have been around for a long time. Wilton has been showing cookies, candies, and petite cakes on sticks for years, but now it is highlighted even more due to the growing demand of this phenomenon for treats on a stick!
Wilton recently released a new publication, Pops! Sweets on a Stick, with hundreds of ideas for a wide range of pops! There are cereal treats, cake balls, petite cakes, and brownies to name only a few.
When I first began designing these edible projects, I was focused on fun celebrations for kids. I soon discovered that these treats are not just for the kids, but also for the kid at heart. Adults love them too!
Pops can be sophisticated as well! Monograms and other types of personalization can be added for weddings and engagement parties. They are also great for dessert when having friends over for dinner.
Name a theme for your party and we have a pop to support it! Cowboys, princesses, baseball, baby, bears, aliens, dolls, dinosaurs, the list can go on forever! Designing all these treats was so much fun. People ask me all the time, “where do you get your inspiration?“ The inspiration for this was endless. All I had to do was wander in party stores, paper goods stores and see what is trendy. Of course you can never go wrong with designing something with a face on it. The fun expressions should make you smile when you look at them, and we have plenty of characters to make you smile!
Holidays were a must to have in the Pops! book. We have bunnies for Spring, turkeys for Fall, Santa and his elves for Christmas, and of course Halloween would not be complete without having spooky treats to hand out to the kids!
Of course pops are fun to eat, but making them is equally as fun when using products created especially for the pops line. We have a wide range of pans, sprinkles sets, and dipping candies just to name a few. No need to worry about how to present these creations, Wilton has designed a line of giftable products. Mini treat bags, boxes, and stands help showcase any pop you make!
We are very excited here at Wilton to introduce our Pops! Book…I know you will be excited as well!
Enter our Pops Sweepstake!
To help celebrate our new Pops line, FIVE lucky readers of this blog will each win a Pops Decorating Kit, valued at $125.00. Included in the Kit are some of our most popular Pops decorating tools and accessories.
How to win:
- Visit our online Pops store or our Pops recipe page and tell us in a comment (on this blog post) your favorite. Please do not publish your address or phone number in your comment.
- Contest begins at 10 AM CST on Friday, January 21 and will close at 11:59 PM CST on Tuesday, January 25, 2011.
- One entry per day/per person. Winners selected in a random drawing.
- Previous winners of Pops Decorating Kits not eligible to win.
- We’re sorry, the contest is open to U.S. residents only.
- Please read the Official Sweepstake Rules.
The contest is closed. Winners have been notified by email. Thank you for participating!
Steve is the Senior Director of Cake and Visual Design for Wilton Products. He is responsible for designing all the projects for Wilton's publications and packaging. Steve works with a team of 17 cake decorators who create a 3-d work of edible art from his sketches. Steve has been with Wilton for 24 years and within that time he has been responsible for thousands of project ideas ranging from cookies, candies, and cakes. Steve is also responsible for art directing the photography for all of Wilton's publications, working with a team of photographers and prop stylists to create the mood and sets to showcase all the projects created by Wilton's cake decorators. 
I like the decorating stand. It helps a lot when you are trying to decorate pops! Things are simplified with the stand.
Bought it. How do you assemble it? The directions are very sketchy? Help plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and Ty.
I don’t have the book yet, but i want that book ASAP. Those pops look so beatiful and the recipes sound so tasty… Love Wilton….
They look adorable cant wait to make some
I love Wilton and there whole line of baking things. I have never been disappointed when I have made the things using there online ideas. Easy instructions and everything comes out beautiful. I have never tried the pops and would love to give them a go. Hope I win I want to try these out. They look like fun for then kids too.
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My nieces and nephews would love them. I’d love to have a family night and make them together!
The animal sprinkle set is TOO cute.
I can’t wait till I get the book, waiting patiently to try the recipes.
I love everything I’ve purchased from Wilton and the ideas I’ve seen are so creative. It’s been so much fun trying new things. I want to try the carrot cake pop recipe. My girlfriend would love to have these for her birthday party next month.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Wilton pops! I haven’t had an opportunity to make them yet but everytime I walk by the display in my local Michael’s It takes all I have to not buy every little thing and “pop” away. A friend of mine won a Pops contest and recieved the kit and she couldn’t stop raving about how much fun she and her daughter had making them. How jealous am I!?! I would be so happy to win this kit and start my Pop making adventures! I think my favorite Pop and my first adventure would be in the birthday cake Pop. So cute!!! Hope I win!!!!
I wish i could make these pops too.If i had the book maybe….
The Wilton animal sprinkle set is very cute and would be great for a birthday party. I love to be creative and make people smile when I try different artistic designs!! @dwaynesgirl78
I love the comfort grip cookie cutters! following @hairgirl1966
I’ve been a fan of Wilton since the early 1960′s and baked my first cupcake. I’m fascinated with all the adorable designs I see and look forward to creating some of my own! Thank you Wilton for years of inspiration!
bee pops, all pops, any pops, I am trying to make them, I figure they would travel better for my kids in college.
The pops are so cute it is hard to choose my favorite. Can’t wait to
give “pop”making a try! Thanks for the chance!
The window is probably closed but in case entries are still being counted, I like the Flower Forming Cups
Love that you posted the various recipes for cake ball pops!!
The Smores Cake Ball Pops sounds delicious, will have to try making them.
I haven’t had a chance to try any yet butt the Butter Pecan Cake Ball Pops sounds really good. I hope to try it real soon.
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I tried them and I love them so much, about to make another batch today. There are so many things you can do with them and they make wonderful gifts for kids and adults.
[...] So when I don’t bake cupcakes daily, it’s not only because we’re abstaining for two weeks to get the blood-sugar level from last week’s bakefest out of our system, but because there’s no time. And when it’s about 100 outside, and the humidity level is higher than high, standing in a hot kitchen isn’t as appealing as it could be, even when you start to drool thinking about that Italian Meringue Buttercream you’re craving. And you want to try a new decorating technique you saw in Wilton’s new Cake Pops book. (If you’re interested, find it here.) [...]
Help me! I do not know how melt candymelts! In hot water do not get liquid consistency. In the microvawe I burn them. What can I do to melt it right! thanks
I do not want to use cake mix to make my pops (cake mixes are very expensive in Venezuela) I need a good recipe of a dense cake to make. Can anyone help me? thank you
[...] So when I don’t bake cupcakes daily, it’s not only because we’re abstaining for two weeks to get the blood-sugar level from last week’s bakefest out of our system, but because there’s no time. And when it’s about 100 outside, and the humidity level is higher than high, standing in a hot kitchen isn’t as appealing as it could be, even when you start to drool thinking about that Italian Meringue Buttercream you’re craving. And you want to try a new decorating technique you saw in Wilton’s new Cake Pops book. (If you’re interested, find it here.) [...]
I have a defective “spring form” pan, 9×2.71in, with your name stamped on the spring. The spring no longer holds and created quite a mess in my oven. Do you still mfg. this item?