I’m sharing these sweet stuffed stockings from my book, Cake Pops Holidays with you guys today. (Plus, there’s a holiday giveaway at the end, too!)
These stockings are one of my favorite designs in the book and they’re actually easier to decorate than the look.
You start out by shaping the crumbled cake and frosting into thick socks – the stockings – and then you dip them in melted candy coating.
You can coat the stockings with any color candy wafers that you like, but I went with dark pink, green, and light blue. Still fun and festive without being straight up red and green. After they dry, dip them in melted white coating for the cuffs and then you can start bringing them to life with random sprinkles and decorations.
Or you could leave them toyless, but they’ll be way happier stuffed with toys inside.
Plus, that’s the most fun for me. Playing and finding fun candies to decorate with.
These are a few of the shapes I used. Candy canes, gingerbread men, candy snaps … plus, my can’t live without sprinkle – white sugar crystals.
But there are tons of sprinkles that would work. You just need to find simple shapes since the stockings are so small.
Here’s the full how-to from my book.
Source: Cake Pops Holidays by Bakerella
Stuffed Stocking Cake Pops
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
And today, because the holidays are fast approaching, I’m giving away a copy of my book along with the Frosty Friends Mini Kit.
PLUS…
I’m also giving away my Cake Pops Toy to the lucky winner!
Here’s a few pics of the toy since I haven’t posted them in a while.
It would totally make a sweet present for someone that loves baking and decorating. It’s still available at Toys R Us in the US and Wal-Mart in Canada if you need a gift idea.
The molds that come with the toy could also help make many of the pops in the book, like the presents, Christmas trees, holly, jingle bells, nutcrackers, elves and much more.
Enter for a chance to win a copy of Cake Pops Holidays plus the Cake Pops Toy and Frosty Friends Mini Kit.
- To enter, just leave a comment on this post and tell me what you’re looking forward to baking or tasting this holiday season. What’s your favorite festive treat?
- Deadline to enter is
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 7:00 pm ET.Sorry, time’s up. Winner announced below. - One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Wednesday evening.
Good luck!
P.S. – I’m having a book signing Tuesday, December 10 at Chef Central in Paramus, NJ. If you’re in the area, come say hi… I’d love to meet you!
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I just picked the winner and it’s comment #301!
I think Debra is going to be pretty excited. Congratulations! Hope you enjoy the book and toy!
I am looking forward to my husband making some of his almond roca. I love that stuff so much and I can’t seem to make it right.
I’m looking forward to baking sand tarts for my family!
I’m excited to make thumbprint cookies this year. I saw a cute recipe using andes creme de menthe candies.
I can’t wait for fudge
Stockings or Snow Globes??
Decisions….decisions
Maybe I will make both for Christmas!!
i didnt even know this existed, my daughter and her friend would absolutely love this. i will be making homemade cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning and fudge to deliver to friends. And of course cake balls… I am making some right now.
I love iced Christmas cookies. They’re so pretty and yummy to eat.
Can’t wait trying out some new cookie recipes – maybe a pistachio cake too!
I have never made cake pops. Will give it a go regardless of winning or not. Thank you for the inspiration.
I wish I had time for cake pops this year – always a big hit!
but I think we’re going to try making cookies with the 2 year old this year. maybe :)
I’m looking forward to making chocolate chip cookies!
i am looking forward to making some hazelnut crinkle cookies
I am always in the mood to taste cheesecake :) with a cup of hot chocolate.
Red and Green Popcorn balls!
We make a wonderful white chocolate peppermint bark that is just wonderful!
I’m excited to start baking cookies, cakes and cake pops! Snicker doodle is my families favorite! My daughter would love to be given this for xmas, thank you!
I’m looking forward to baking gingerbread men with my class of 4-5 year olds. I do it every year and they always love it!! Jen x
These are adorable!! This season I can’t wait to make my red and green velvet white chocolate chip cookies. My family always asks for them during Christmas.
I go baking crazy at Christmas time! :) I have so many “must make” items. My favorite is probably the peppermint cake, but my husband demands cake balls (or pops) and butterscotch pie. :) Yum!
I love making gingerbread cookies, and having my sister help me decorate them!!!! Such a fun bonding time.
I’m looking forward to baking traditional Italian cookies with my grandma!
So cool, I’d love one of these sets! I’m looking forward to baking some Christmas cookies and hopefully cake pops too!
I love all the cookies that are made during this time of year. Can never get enough. Thanks for the chance to win.
I always look forward to making candies during the Christmas season. My daughter would love this kit!
The stockings are so cute!! I’m most looking forward to making caramels this coming weekend! :)
I am looking forward to nutroll
This year, I look forward to using more of my little jar of crystallized ginger in my baking. I used it in a batch of sugar cookies and fell in love! So I’d love to find ways to incorporate it into other baked goods.
Love it!! Can’t be Christmas with out butter tarts and Christmas cake.
I’m looking forward to making chocolate chip scones – first time this year!
My cousin’s famous coffee cake, can’t wait!
I am definitely looking forward to making some Oreo cream cheese truffles this Christmas…similar to cake balls but I don’t have to worry about them being perfectly dipped as I do not put them on sticks!
My cousin’s famous coffee cake, can’t wait!
I make sugar cookies with an icing glaze that are a crowd favorite. They are always on the baking list for special occasions and holidays!
Dark chocolate truffles…can’t live without them! Merry Christmas to you and your family :)
Pizzelles!
I’m looking forward to baking sugar cookies!
I am making bread from scratch and I always make my Double layer carrot cake. Yum
My granddaughter would love to make these for Christmas dinner. I will be making fruitcake cookies this weekend, from a recipe I got from a friend 40 years ago. Good memories.
These look great! I’m so looking forward to making chocolate covered oreos, they are my specialty. I especially love doing it w/ my boys, they like to get messy and lick their fingers clean so I make sure they have their own supplies and keep their creations at home for us to enjoy.
I’m looking forward to my Mother-In-Laws Caramel Creme cookies! Plus all the other good snacks and treats!
Gingerbread, so yummy! Love all the colours of Christmas!
I am looking forward to making a gingerbread house with my son!
I can’t wait for the fruitcake!! If you don’t like fruitcake, you’re not eating the right one! And my moms yummy butterball recipe!
I’m looking forward to baking Christmas shaped sugar cookies with my 4 & 5 year old nephews. They love to bake, and get creative in the kitchen!
My family and I will be making christmas cake pops together. My 2 and 3 yr olds are in love with cake pops!
These are so adorable! We are not hosting Christmas Dinner this year and DH is on a diet, but I have been craving some homemade soft pretzels.
I’m looking forward to baking a bunch of different cookies like I do every year – and next year I’ll have help from my daughter! I love giving away a whole bunch of cookies to my husband’s co-workers and our friends. :)
Mostly to snowball cookies but I love all the Holiday treats. This set is adorable & cake pops would be ny new favorite if I had this to make them. I’ve never tried a cake pop before but your’s are incredible.
I am going to attempt some cake pops for the first time, so wish me luck! ;o) I am looking forward to making a lot of different cookies and might also give meringue cookies a try, since I am feeling extra adventurous!
I’m looking forward to making Lebkuchen! It’s a german cookie made with ground hazelnuts and almonds. So yummy!
Cinnamon buns! Happy holidays!
I am looking forward to making sugar cookies! Lots and lots of sugar cookies! =)
I can’t wait to make your stockings they are adorable. I love everything you create. Thank you.
This would be so fun to share with my Daughter, who is now 10. We’re turning that corner from little girl (sniff sniff) to young lady and this Mom isn’t ready.
This is something fun we can do together and she can share with her friends. Hooray! Love your site so very much, I’ve been a lurker for years. <3
Favorite festive treat has become my Bread Pudding. I've been intimidated for years to try it. Now my family asks for it at least once a month. And a good Southern home has to have a Buttermilk Pie too. Mmmm! Gingerbread cookies and iced sugar cookies. There's so much to choose between.
I love to make AND eat fudge! Can’t wait!
Sugar Cookies!!! I spend hours and hours decorating them and it takesjust minutes for the trays to disappear
So cute! Just the thought of all those different sprinkles to choose from, endless!!! I am looking forward to the mini cheesecake tarts my grandmother makes every year.
I’m looking forward to winning this giveaway…
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I’m looking forward to making decadent chocolate cakes (with your recipe) and more pumpkin-based cookies, breads, and cakes. Can’t get enough of the pumpkin!
Looking forward to making my first Yule log this Christmas! Hopefully it turns out! :D
I am making an all finger food Christmas dinner in honor of my mother-in-law who has dementia and can no longer navigate silverware. Beautiful cake pops will be the perfect dessert!
I’m looking forward to a cookie day with my 5 1/2 year old. She loves to bake and taste :)
I always love baking and decorating sugar cookies with friends and family. We often sneak some gingerbread in too and then affectionately bicker over who ate the most dough.
I am looking forward to making and eating frosted sugar cookies with my boys!
I’m most looking forward to our family’s annual cannoli making!! They are always a hit on Christmas!
Sugar cookies!
FUDGE! Oh I love Fudge! Lol.. And I love cookies of any kind! Lol.. I probably become a sugar piggy during the Holidays!
Those stockings are almost just too pretty to eat!
Got several of your cake pop set to give as gifts this Xmas.
Love ’em!
I love making spritz cookies and pumpkin pie!
My girls and I are looking forward to spending time with Grandma making Christmas cookies. They also had their first cake pops as school last week so now we have to add that to our Christmas baking list. They even told me how to make the cake pops. It was adorable.
My family and I love making sugar cookies together. This year we are adding cake pops to the list
i love to decorate gingerbread houses with my little love bug. she eats more candy than she puts on the house. :)
At Christmas time I love a homemade deep, dark chocolate cupcake with peppermint buttercream. Yum!
I always do a chocolate crackle cookie that I have always had a great success rate with! They come out so pretty with the cracked powdered sugar on to. So chewy and always a hit!
Love trying out all the new things sweet neighbors drop off. There is always something yummy!
Looking foward in baking gingerbread cookies and baking with the kids to make our very own gingerbread houses.
Looking forward to attending two cookie sampling parties as well as a cookie exchange. I’m making snowball cookies! YUM!
I’m looking forward to making pizzelles!
Cranberry oatmeal cookies & pumpkin bread are my personal favorites, but I get the best feeling when I bake ginger cookies for an elderly gent in my church. He’s been under the weather lately, so I made him a batch last week & saved some dough for another batch before Christmas.
Love making cake pops and sugar cookies with my daughter and son
My favorite holiday treat is sugar cookies and my mom’s homemade macroons. She only makes the macroons around the holidays.
I have the best gingersnap cookie recipe (thanks to my mom) that I look forward to every year. We also have appetizers every year for Christmas dinner and the cheesy artichoke dip and stuffed mushrooms are delicious!
I am looking forward to making a gingerbread house with my grandson Joshua. And baking and decorating cookies with him. He loves to bake!
There are so many to pick from! I think my favorite is pretzel rods dipped in caramel and chocolate. And OH MY! My seven year old would go nuts over the cake pops toy, it is so stinking cute!!
I love everything peppermint!
Would love this to do with our daughter. I will be boing something–anything chocolate and Christmas butter cookies.
I’m looking forward to backing cookies and cheesecakes. My kids and I really love making cakepops, but they are so time consuming. That toy looks like just the thing we’d love to have!
I’m a big fan of gingerbread cookies. My daughter would love this set. So cute!
Cake pops.
Love making sugar cookies with the kids. This would be perfect for them :-) my two year olds favorite word right now is cake pop.
I can’t wait to make something using the white chocolate peppermint M & M’s you wrote about! They look delicious!!
I have a 4-year-old boy and I really, really want to make a gingerbread house and decorate it with him!
I have made pistachio cherry cookies, cherry blossom cookies, and snickerdoodle bread so far this year. I can’t wait to eat my aunts cut out sugar cookies. They are the BEST!
I love Christmas cookies and enjoy making chocolate covered Oreos and pretzels for friends.
I love these stocking cake pops! They are so cute!
Sugar cookies are on my list of things to bake this year. Merry Christmas everyone!
those stockings are very cute… looking forward to all the tasty goodies that come with the holidays!
I love pies and can’t wait for more! Thanksgiving wasn’t enough… Christmas pies are the best!
I am looking forward to eating anything baked with chocolate!
I just love your creativity! The new mini set is so cool!
We’ve been loving eggnog with nutmeg this winter.
My husband’s favorite cookies are butter cookies and I’ve never made them before, so I’m looking forward to baking them! My cousins would LOVE the toy!
My kids and I are looking forward to baking Hot chocolate chocolate chip cookies this weekend. We make them every year and everyone loves them. Happy Holidays and I would love to win this set or maybe Santa will decide to gift it to my daughter this year :)
I’m looking forward to making and eating chocolate covered pretzels and Christmas cutout cookies with my daughter!
The Cake Pop Maker would be a great gift for her. Something we could do together for more bonding time. Love it! :)
I’m planning to make stollen for my father
I’m hoping to learn to make fudge so I can give it out as Christmas presents :)
I can’t wait to eat chocolate! My parents always stuff my stocking full of candy and sweets – It’s the best part of Christmas!
pinwheel cookies. Not too sweet, and very cute. Will be trying them gluten-free this year.
I am looking forward to making fudges !
I love making shortbread cookies. I may also make some of these stockings. They are so cute.
This holiday, I’m looking forward to bake my peppermint brownies! They are so good!
BTW… Those stockings are adorable!
Really looking forward to baking gingerbread cookies this year. I can’t seem to get them out of my mind!
I am looking forward to trying some new cookie recipes out and of course making cake pops for my daughters birthday on the 17th for her to take to school.
I’m looking forward to baking cookies with my 2 and a half year old nephew, last year he just ate the cookie dough and mommy didn’t like that very much. I think this year he will be a lot more into decorating little gingerbread men and women!
Soft molasses cookies are an all-time fav and holiday MUST… and English muffins for gift-giving. An added treat would be winning your book…I’d love to make minis with my four young nieces. Happy Holidays!
I made a batch of licorice toffee, or caramel (I have no idea what the actual translation is, but oh boy, it was like something out of a dream) the other week. Then I ate it all, gained about 5 kg, and decided (for the sake of my arteries and waistline) that I’d wait until the 16th before making any more. Definitely my new favourite “festive” treat… Who needs peppermint when there is licorice? ;)
Love the stocking cake pop idea! What I’m looking forward to is making gingerbread man cookies with my kids. My favorite holiday treat is the pumpkin roll I usually make.
I’m looking forward to making sugar cookies and chocolate peppermint pinwheels. My niece would love the cake pop toy. How fun!
I’m looking forward to baking anything my 6 year old daughter, Natalie, wants to bake! She loves helping me bake all kinds of Christmas goodies this time of year!
My favorite holiday treat is of course cookies! Nice, chewy ginger cookies with lots of cinnamon sugar
Love those stocking cake pops! I’m looking forward to making my traditional chocolate yule log. Thanks!
I bake every year for the holidays but this year I am looking forward to baking some new ideas….I am looking forward to the lemon crinkles the most!
I’ve been waiting for the right moment to make holiday bread pudding. I’m not sure what kind of bread I want to use, but I already bought a loaf of panettone and cranberries in anticipation… :D
Recipes for this season are all wonderful, and I want to bake some cupcakes made with sweet potato, as it’s a tradition here to have it for dinner
Looking forward to making pecan pies on a stick, cherry pie in puff pastry, tons of exotic ice-cream flavors, sugar cookies, triple ginger cookies and walnut bars! Ouch! I have a lot to do in a very short time frame.
Either mexican wedding cookies or a yule log!
I would like to try making divinity. My Mama and Daddy made it every year when I was little.
Cake pops, cinnamon rolls and apple pie! I LOVE baking!!!
I ENJOY ANYTHING GINGERBREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Good, old-fashioned sugar cookies. And decorating them with my 5-year-old!
I can’t wait to make some mini-pies and holiday cupcakes for our Christmas dinner! Maybe I’ll trade in mini-pies for cake pops! ;)
I would love that kit, toy, and book!
I’m looking forward to making everything!! Such fond memories of baking with my mom and grandmother. I’m hoping to carry on the tradition with my own family :)
truffles!!! and salted caramels, of course!!
HO HO HO
I love to make and eat spritz cookies, cupcakes and caramel.
Thanks for the opportunity
Cheers
Catie
I love the baking and I make my favorites: frosted butter cookies, linzer and peppermint bark. I also make marshmallows for my sister.
I’m ready to make my grandma’s recipe for fudge. It’s the best!!
I look forward to eating cornbread dressing….and making cookies to decorate with my grandsons. May 2014 bring you continued good health. I love all of your wonderful creations….you are so talented.
I’m going to try and make some gingerbread cookies this year and I can’t wait to nibble on my aunts delicious peppermint barks.
i would make as many cake pops as i could, i have always wanted a set like this. i might ask for it for christmas but hopefully i wont need to!
I am looking forward to baking rolls.
I love carrot cake. I can eat it all year.
I love making Chocolate Truffles and eating my Mother-in-laws’ toffee!! Yum, Yum!
I am looking forward to making and decorating my holiday sugar cookies with my boys.
Hi Bakerella, I am looking forward to seeing my family and spending some time with them. I’m also looking forward to winning your giveaway. ;) Happy Holiday’s and a great New Year!
I definitely want to try baking the chocolate peppermint cookies you posted earlier…went out and bought white chocolate peppermint m&ms from target as soon as I saw that post! haha
It isn’t Christmas without making peanut butter balls with my mother.
I’m looking forward to making my grandmother’s spritz cookies with my mom. It’s our family tradition! :)
Spritz cookies are my favorite – I love the buttery almond flavor!
Everything is always so gosh darn cute! Can you bottle your “creative genes” and sell them!!
Love everything!!
I’m looking forward to making spiced pecans and cookies with my 3 year old, she loves helping momma in the kitchen!
Great giveaway! I’m looking forward to making molasses crinkles! :-)
My sisters, mom and I get together to decorate sugar cookies. It’s so fun. I’m looking forward to that.
I love making lots of treats every Christmas, and like trying new kinds. I want to try some brown butter snickerdoodles this year as my “new” thing. What I like making most is cake pops and sugar cookies. I am taking a cake decorating class right now, and am having fun learning all kinds of new techniques!
I’m looking forward to the annual Christmas cookie baking party with my friends. Snickerdoodles are my go-to cookie, but I’ll be trying a new ginger softy recipe this year also.
Every Christmas Eve, I bake chocolate chip cookies, peppermint spritz (using my mom’s Super Shooter cookie gun from 1982), and my grandmother’s snickerdoodle recipe. It’s my favorite holiday tradition!
I am looking forward to baking swirl sugar cookies with a sprinkle outer-coating!
Cute! I’m looking forward to making these super cute stockings!
I’m looking forward to making the cookies from your last post! I had to do some improvising when buying the ingredients because I’m from Canada and I don’t think we have the M&Ms here but I’m still super excited to make them!
I am always all about the pies during the holidays, but I think I’m going to make some shortbread cookies to give away this year too :)
I LOVE THESE! !!!!!
I plan to make holiday cookies and treat pops for each of my clients as gifts.
I look forward to baking my mom’s gingerbread cookie recipe. The cookies are soooo good!
I cannot wait to make all my cookies, breads, cakes and homemade cocoa mixes for the Christmas Goodie baskets that I give to my neighbors, co-workers, friends and family.
I am all about pound cake this year. And chocolate sugar cookies. And cake pops!
I’m going to try making real chocolate truffles. It has been a few years since I attempted it but I’m ready to try again!
The cake pops are so cute!! I’ve been good this year(:
It would be perfect for the holidays and share cute treats with our friends and loved ones. I can’t wait to start my christmas cookie baskets I share with my loved ones!
Have a very mery christmas to everyone & good luck to us all!
I just finished baking my first bath of Christmas Cut Out Cookies for the season and they are definitely what my daughter is looking forward to the most since we bought new cutters (lots of special snowflakes, a ballerina, and a snowglobe). She is dancing in the Nutcracker this year and one of her parts is Snowflake so she has been wanting to make treats to share!
Mocha nut buttballs and cream cheese fold overs are required, but I always bake about eight kinds of cookies and at leat one cake. I love to bake them all!
I’m looking forward to making and decorating our gingerbread house!!
These are so stinkin’ cute! I’m excited about chocolate toffee – this is one of our Christmas traditions!
looking forward to PIE. I am in love with pumpkin pie. Yeah I can make it any time of the year, but it just feel right at christmas time =)
My daughter and I are going to repeat our holiday peppermint bark that we made for her teachers last year! Thanks for the fun ideas for the holidays and all year long!
I’m looking forward to making red velvet cookies and sugar cookie cut outs!
I know it sounds weird, but I have never made gingerbread from scratch, so I am looking forward to making some! My favorite holiday treat is my mom’s breakfast casserole or my friend’s chocolate or caramel fudge, it’s the best!!!!!
I’m looking forward to baking with my little girls. It’s become tradition! Love this time of year!
We do a “Sweets Bar” on Christmas Eve, so narrowing it down to just one treat would be impossible!! :) Although, I will say that cake pops are always included and becoming a fav around here!!
I love decorating Christmas tree shaped sugar cookies! It has been a tradition in my family ever since I was a little girl.
I am looking forward to making hot chocolate on a stick and peppermint marshmallows. I found a gingerbread mold that should make great looking hot chocolate shapes!
I am going to try my hand at making truffles
My sisters Christmas cookies and Sand Tarts. Love them.
I’m looking forward to making the “rollo” cookie and I’d like to try making some donuts.
Looking forward to making salted caramels, and pecan pumpkin tart!
I love candy canes or anything peppermint
I look forward to so many family traditions at this time of year but most of all my Grandma’s recipe of fruit drop cookies with candied fruit and dates!
My daughter and I are making mini chocolate cheesecake bites. Yum! Thanks for the chance to win!
I love caramel but have never made it so I love when I see it at a party, I always have to try it. I also love homemade toffee.
I’m most looking forward to baking my favorite brownies… everyone I know LOVES them! 3-layer coffee n cream brownies… simply delicious!
I can’t wait to make Peanut Kiss cookies and Ornament cake pops!
Our grandchildren are 1 1/2 and 3-just the right ages for decorated sugar cookies-so I’ll be busy baking before they come.
I am looking forward to making “Mint chocolate chip cookies”!
Thanks Bakerella!
Usually my favorite treat to make at Christmas are chocolate peanut butter balls. Some people refer to them as “buckeyes”. But this year I am wanting to make some Oreo truffles using the mint chocolate Oreos!
I’m looking forward to baking a cake for Christmas day and baking sugar cookies and decorating them.
I’m still waiting for just the right weekend to make some chocolate peppermint cookies!! Chocolate + mint = perfection
Marzipan! It’s my favorite holiday sweet!
I’m looking forward to baking cookies, almond kiss cookies for sure. Plus the other ten kinds I like to make this time of year.
Cuban flan! :D
Decorated short bread cookies with my nieces!
I’m looking forward to the COCKTAILS! Nothing like a warm cranberry and cinnamon cocktail to make you feel festive and it certainly doesn’t hurt to throw a few gingerbread men in the mix to chomp while you sip! I love the holiday season!
My daughters and I always make trays for all the neighbors. It included assortment of cookies and candies. I always look forward to this traditon (and so do the neighbors)!!
I’m looking forward to making Christmas cake pops!
I’m looking forward to making struffoli with my boyfriend, and of course, sugar cookies with my little sister!