Halloween themed cake pops
By Bret Walts
The tastiest treat in town, cake pops! You can do all kind of things with cake pops. In this case my mother made them to look like pumpkins, witches, ghosts and black cats.
Ingredients needed for Halloween Cake Pops:
1 box of cake mix (prepared according to package directions)
1/2 can of frosting
3 bags of candy melts
Bag of 8 inch lollipop sticks
Chocolate twizzlers
Chocholate chips
Sprinkles
Candy Writer (to draw faces)
Oreos
Dark chocolate kisses
Directions:
Bake a cake (can be any flavor your heart desires)
After the cake is baked, crumble the cake as much as possible.
After crumbling the cake, add a half a can of icing to the crumbled cake
After that roll the cake mixture into small balls
After rolling about 35 cake balls put them in the freezer for 20 minutes (or refrigerator for 2 hours)
Melt 1 bag of candy melts
Dip end of lollipop stick into melts and stick 1/2 way into a cake ball
Let harden in freezer for 5 minutes
Dip entire cake ball into melts to cover the cake mixture
Pumpkins
Add stem (chocholate twizzler) onto cake pop before it hardens
After dry, draw face with a candy writer
Cats
Put on chocolate chip ears and sprinkle for nose
Let dry, then draw on eyes with white candy writer
Ghosts
Shape cake ball into ghost shape
Draw on eyes/mouth with black candy writer
Witches
Hats – Seperate oreo cookie and use one side to use as the base of a hat
Add a hershey kiss to the “hat” and stick on with a little candy melt
Stick on hat, nose (candy sprinkle) and hair (chocolate twizzler) and let dry
Draw on eyes and mouth with candy writer
Finished Product