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Home » Mermaid Cakesicles Recipe

Mermaid Cakesicles Recipe

July 5, 2019 *This post may include amazon links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Created by Angie on July 5, 2019

  • Yield: 35-40 Medium Cakesicles

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 1 box french vanilla mix
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons Adam's Vanilla Extract
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 4 egg whites
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 8 ounces sour cream

For the icing

  • 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon Adam's Vanilla Extract
  • 1 1/2 cups Dixie Crystals Confectioners Powdered Sugar
  • 2 - 4 tablespoons milk

For decorating:

  • 80 ounces white candy melts
  • 10 ounces light blue candy melts
  • 20 ounces or so of Wilton's Blueberry Lemonade Purple candy melts
  • Mermaid mold from Wilton's DIY-Lish Mermaid Kit
  • 40 popsicle sticks
  • Mermaid colored & themed sprinkles

Instructions

For Cake

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, flour, sugar, and salt.
  • In the bowl of a mixer, mix together the egg whites and vanilla, water, milk and oil.
  • Mix on low for about 10 seconds.
  • Slowly add the dry mix a little at a time. Mixing on low until everything is combined.
  • Add sour cream and mix well.
  • Pour into a 9x13-inch pan.
  • Bake 30 - 35 minutes or until done.
  • Remove from oven and let cool.

For Icing

  • With in electric mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth.
  • Slowly add powdered sugar while mixing.
  • Add vanilla.
  • Slowly add milk 1/2 a tablespoon at a time and mix until icing is smooth.

To make and decorate

  • Crumble cake into crumbs and mix icing into cake crumbs until a dough forms.
  • After the cake crumbs and icing is mixed into a dough, form cakesicles by hand and place them on a sheet pan (or something small enough to fit into your fridge or freezer).
  • Add popsicle sticks and place into fridge or freezer for 1-2 hours or until super cold.
  • While cakesicles are getting cold, make the candy mermaid tails.
  • Melt the purple blueberry lemonade candy melts according to the package directions.
  • Fill the mermaid mold with candy melts and tap to release air bubbles.
  • Place into fridge for 10 minutes. Pop mermaid tails out of mold and continue process until enough mermaid tails have been made.
  • Melt white chocolate according to package directions. Melt blue as well in a separate bowl.
  • Drizzle some of the blue over the white melted candy and and dip each cakesicle into melted chocolate.
  • Lay on a flat surface, add mermaid candy tail and sprinkles.
  • Let cakesicles lay on a flat surface to harden.
  • Print

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