Multiple Swirls

1. Cut the tip of a decorating bag and insert a small, round decorating tip. Fill the bag about halfway with melted candy coating in your choice of color. Fill the bag halfway, to make it easier to handle it with your dominant hand while holding the cake pop in your non-dominant hand.

2. Position the decorating tip centered at the top of the cake pop. The tip should be close to the cake pop surface without actually touching.

3. Squeeze the bag with medium pressure to start the flow of melted coating from the tip. Maintain constant, uniform pressure while making the swirls.

4. Squeeze a small dot of candy coating at the center of the cake pop. Drag the stream of candy coating in a circle, making about 1 1/2 revolutions around the center dot. Instead of completing a closed circle, move the candy coating stream out slightly to create the swirl. Stop squeezing the bag to cut off the flow; lift the tip straight away from the cake pop.

5. Turn the cake pop on its side. Pipe another swirl on the cake pop, making it identical in size to the first swirl. Repeat this about two more times around the sides of the cake pop, keeping each swirl spaced evenly.

Single Swirl

1. Squeeze a small dot at the center top of the cake pop. Squeeze with medium pressure and maintain a constant flow. The center dot flows directly into the rest of the swirl.

2. Swirl the candy coating stream around the center dot about 1 1/2 to 2 times or until you can no longer apply even swirls with the cake pop held vertically. The exact number of revolutions around the center dot depends on the tightness of the spiral.

3. Turn the cake pop on its side, holding it horizontally by the end of the stick. This is a quick motion done while the candy coating is still streaming from the decorating tip.

4. Twirl the cake pop stick slowly so the stream of candy coating falls on the sides of the cake pop. Each revolution of the candy coating should move farther toward the bottom of the cake pop. If you start the swirl on top of the cake pop in a clockwise motion, twirl the cake pop toward your body. If the swirl starts out counter-clockwise, twirl the cake pop away from your body.

5. Continue twirling the cake pop and applying swirls of candy coating, ending at the point where the cake pop meets the stick. You might need to tilt the cake pop down when you get to the "southern hemisphere" of the cake pop. Stop squeezing the bag and pull the tip straight away from the cake pop.