HALLOWEEN CAKE POPS!

Whats up ghoul friends!

We are going to start this blog off with an extremely cute, fun and easy ghoultastic snack that you can serve at a Halloween party or family function, and if you have kids, you can decorate these cute little cake pops with them (with your supervision of course). This recipe is super easy. The first thing you have to do is bake a little cake. it can just be a rectangle pan and you are using 1 box of cake mix. all you do is crumble up the cake into a bowl and add about 3/4 of the can of prepared icing and Make them into balls (explained better in the video posted at the end). After that the fun part begins(scroll down for recipes)

 

Ingredients

• 48 uncoated Basic Cake Balls
• 48 ounces (3 pounds) orange candy coating
• Deep, microwave-safe bowl
• 48 paper lollipop sticks
• 48 green Tic Tac mints or similarly shaped candy
• Styrofoam block
• Black edible-ink pen

Directions

1. Have the cake balls chilled and in the refrigerator.

2. Melt the orange candy coating in a microwave-safe plastic bowl, following instructions on the package. The coating should be about 3 inches deep for easier dipping. (It'sbest to work with about 16 ounces of coating at a time.)

3. When you are ready to dip, remove a few cake balls from the refrigerator at a time.

4. One at a time, dip about 1/2 inch of the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted candy coating, and insert the stick straight into a cake ball, pushing it no more than halfwaythrough. Dip the cake pop into the melted coating, and tap off any excess coating: Hold the pop over the bowl in one hand, and tap your wrist gently with your other hand.(If you use the hand holding the cake pop to shake off excess coating, the force of the movement will be too strong and could cause the cake ball to loosen or fly off the lollipop stick.) The excess coating will fall off, but you will need to rotate the lollipop stick so the coating doesn't build up on one side, making it too heavy on that side. If too much coating starts to build up at the base of the stick, simply use your finger to wipe it off, spinning the lollipop stick at the same time. This can happen if the coating is too thin or too hot. It's not as hard as it sounds; it just takes a little practice.

5. Immediately insert a Tic Tac into the very top of the pumpkin pop. Hold in place until set, and let dry completely in the Styrofoam block. Repeat with the remaining pumpkins until they all have stems.

6. Add jack-o'-lantern faces with a black edible-ink pen, and let dry completely in the Styrofoam block. (Source: Family Circle Cake Pop recipe) 

The result of the finished product should look like (or close to) this>>>>>>

There are many different ways you can decorate these. You can make cats or ghosts or mummies. The site that I have used (source: Family Circle) has ways to do all of the different kinds of characters, but we used the jack o lantern example because they are the easiest ones.

One of the great things about this recipe is that you can make cake pops for any occasion. I hope you enjoy the cake pops (for the record, they are a hit at any party.I have tried before) and HAVE FUN GHOULS!

Keep Creepin',
Your Ghoul Friends