cake pop

noun

A confection consisting of a round piece of cake coated in icing or chocolate and stuck on a stick in the manner of a lollipop.

Meanings

nouncake pop (plural cake pops)

plural cake pops · alternative cake-pop · alternative cakepop

  1. A confection consisting of a round piece of cake coated in icing or chocolate and stuck on a stick in the manner of a lollipop.

    The holidays are one of my favorite times of the year to make cake pops.

    2010, Bakerella, Cake Pops Holidays, Chronicle Books (2010), page 30
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    Before you start it's best to pierce the holes into the polystyrene block that will hold the cake pops.

    2011, Molly Bakes, Crazy for Cake Pops: 50 All-New Delicious and Adorable Creations, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 38

    “Maybe this will cheer you up.” Paige whipped the cutest cellophane-wrapped cake pop out of her tote, decorated like a mini pumpkin all the way down to the stem.

    2013, Tracy March, The Practice Proposal, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN

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