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. 
The recipe for Red Velvet Cake Ball Pops sounds both super tasty and easy to make!
I made these for my neices birthday party,so cute and fun to make! I did balloons for her curious george theme.
I love the Pops book and there are so many that I want to make! I think I may start with the tea set since my daughter wants to have a tea party.
I cannot wait to get my new Pops book so that I can begin making my own as well as learn fun ways to decorate and bring more entertainment to the many parties that are coming up.
I love the Pops Decorating Stand. When I made Cake pops for Christmas, I used Styrofoam blocks to hold up my pops while I worked. The problem with this is that the holes sometimes widened and the pops tilted. The stand seems like a much better option.
I hope to get a stand before I make Valentine’s pops for my granddaughter’s daycare class.
I’m a new Wiltonite and I’m hooked!! I would LOVE to start my collection of Wilton books with the Pops one. I browsed the recipes and think the chocolate malt one sounds divine! Kind of like giant Whoppers on a stick! Can’t wait for the book to come out … I’m envisioning making little campers, goldfish bowls, cupcakes and a ton of other cute things … people will be getting these for years from me!
My 2 kids and I have tea parties all the time so our first pops are going to be the tea set so that we can have a more fun and involved tea party, making and enjoying the pops together!
I love the red velvet cake pops. I made them for my daughter’s birthday and we dipped them in chocolate fondue!
I love the recipes! You can NEVER go wrong with peanut butter cup pops! YUM!!!
I made multi-colored caked pops for a bridal shower, arranged in a crystal bowl with ribbons and sparkles. It was beautiful! Love the book with new ideas, though. I definite must-have!!
Love the idea of Chocolate Malted Milk flavor in a cake ball. Those popcorn boxes are adorable! I can’t wait to get the book.
I love the chocolate chip cake ball recipe! So good and so easy!!
I love the dinosaur pops!! My five year old is wanting a dino birthday party. How fun would those be to give out as favors!!
I would love to try the silicone boy mold. My local craft stores don’t have it….I’ll check next time I’m in the city or order one.
I’m making the peanut butter & chocolate cake ball pops next week for my great-nephew’s 8th birthday… I will use my 3D football candy mold to shape them. I can’t wait.
I love them all! It looks so fun. I’m sure my imagination could run wild with pop ideas!
I just love the cake pops and can’t decide which one to try next. I am definitely trying something for my grandaughter’s class. I love all the girly ones and the strawberry cake worked so good.
I love the heart set. They will be perfect to make for Valentines day!
I love the Creamsicle Cake Ball Pops and would love to make and try the other ones out I WANT the new POPS book!!!
I was at Micheals today and saw the pop book and fell in love. I want to make all of them. i can’t wait to try it and make some creations!
I like both sites, but I think I like the recipe page the best. Am just getting into cake pops, and am loving them!
I cant wait to make the Smores Cake pops with my sister! They look so good
I love the baby face pops. Im planning on making these for an up comming baby shower.
I really love the heart shaped cookie pop pans, and the brownie ones look amazing too! I honestly would love make the heart ones for Valentine’s Day
The “pops – sweets on a stick” book looks amazing! I have the brownie pops silicone mold….and would love to have the book to get some great ideas for that. I also love the presentation of things…..so i cant wait to see what this book has to offer!
the creamsicle recipes sounds awesome! i have made regular vanilla, chocolate and red velvet recipes all to rave reveiws
I LOVE POPs… I cannot wait to make them with the youth at our church. We will be doing a Community Outreach and we are going to make POPs to give out to children at a local group home as well as the new homeless shelter in our area. With Valentines Day quickly approaching I am getting really excited because we will be makeing the Red Velvet POPs and if all goes well we will be shaping them into Hearts and Kiss’s.
I love the Bee and Dino Cake Pops! I cant wait to try them!
S’mores cake ball pop! YUM!!
Malted cake pops for me! No, Creamsicle cake pops for my husband! The boy mold! No, the popcorn idea! Can I just enter more than once?
Honestly can’t pick a favorite…..love the tea set, love the dino, love the adult ideas. It’s much more versatile than I realized!!!
I think my favorite products to try will be the Pops! book and the special decorating sprinkles. I love that they are all in one place to purchase because some of them are so hard to find. Thanks Wilton for coming up with this line!
I like the silicone blossom brownie pops. The peanut butter chocolate cake balls sound delicious!
I love the cupcake, flowers, and cute butterfly pops! I want to get busy making cake pops!
The french toast pops recipe sounds intriguing. I love the popcorn pops. I made some for my son’s movie party and they were a big hit.
Pops make even a plain Monday Lunch happy
I think I’ll make some cake ball pops for Super Bowl Sunday!
I need the pops book!!! loving the display stands for the pops too!
Jenn Post
I love these ideas so much, and cannot wait to try making cake balls myself. I’m so excited about it….
caramel apple pops sound awesome!
OMG, I just think this is the greatest idea since cupcakes! I’m so excited, I can’t wait to try these out. I have three grandchildren under the age of three so I definitely will be making these beautiful creations for their birthday parties.
I love the flower pot presentation kit! I’ve made cake pops recently and I did not know how to present them!
I am a long, long time Wilton fan and have your cake going back for something like 20 years. The Pop Book is amazing….I am so excited about the Creamsicle Cake Ball Pops. This kit sure would make the process easy! Oh, but I could win so I’d have no excuse not to get started! <3
i would love to try the Red Velvet Cake Ball Pops.
I like the popcorn pops!!! I NEED TO WIN THIS BADLY so I Can make some for my daughter’s bday party
I love this pops! I make them all the time for pot lucks at work and they are a hit. They are so easy to make and such a crowd pleaser! When I make them it is so relaxing and fun. You can be so creative and they always turn out so cute!
The Pops’ display in any party will be the star of it
I have made these pops before and it was so much fun! I am looking forward to making more of these. I really enjoy baking and creating and most of all sharing these yummy little treats. They are the perfect size for everyone young and adults as well. My favorite are the cupcakes they are so cute! Thanks Wilton!
smore cake ball pops sound delicious! I would like to make them.
I love the Valentine pops that look like little aliens! I know my grandson will LOVE them…in fact, I plan on making them with him when we visit him next month. These are not only fun for adults, but fun for kids as well. Not only are they fun, they are delicious!
I didn’t realize that there were this many great ideas that could be done with Pops on a stick. They are endless..LOL. I can’t wait to try them all. I have tried the cake pops on my children and the absolutely enjoyed them, but now I’m ready to try some of the other ideas that Wilton offers in this book. I’m looking forward to it
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