Halloween Cake Pops
- Prep Time: 4 hours
- Total Time: 4 hours
- Yield: 24 1x
- 1 cake (9×13″ pan or 2 8×8″ layers)
- 1/4 –1/2 cup frosting (any buttercream-type)
- Lollipop sticks
- For decorating:
- White melting chocolate
- Colored candy melts (red, black, and yellow)
- Green coloring (oil based) or green candy melts
- Candy eyes
- Cut the cake into chunks and leave to dry for 2-3 hours. Allowing it to get slightly stale gives a better texture to the finished pops.
- Shred the cake with two forks until it’s crumbed.
- Add 1/4 cup icing and mix with your hands until a dough forms. Don’t be afraid to get rough with it. Test to see if it’s moist enough by rolling a piece into a ball. If there are cracks in the ball, add more frosting by the tablespoon-ful and mix again. Adjust and test by rolling until you are able to roll a very smooth ball.
- Wrap the dough in plastic and refrigerate 2 hours or over night.
- When you are ready to make the pops, scoop the dough out with a cookie scoop or tablespoon measure.
- Massage the portions briefly to soften the dough, then shape: Roll into balls for eyeballs; teardrops for aliens; fat cylinders for mummies.
- Melt some black candy melts and use a piping bag to pipe pupils in the center of some yellow candy melts to make irises. Set those aside.
- Melt your white chocolate in the microwave in 30-second increments, stirring between each, until melted.
- Dip a lollipop stick into the chocolate just about 1/4″ deep and scrape off excess. Gently twist the stick into the cake balls and let set for 2-3 minutes.
- Now dip your eyeballs and mummies into the chocolate, swirling to coat.
- Remove excess by tapping the stick gently against the side of a bowl so that the chocolate smoothes out and any drips are caught.
- Allow to cool 20-30 seconds before pressing the “irises” onto the balls and the candy eyes onto the mummies.
- Let set by poking the stick into a block of styrofoam (or use a weighted foam egg carton).
- Set some white aside for the mummy wrappings later and color the rest of the white coating green.
- Dip your aliens and attach their eyeballs.
- Once the mummies and eyeballs have set, pipe strands around the mummies with the remaining white chocolate.
- Melt some red candy and pipe bloodshot veins around the eyeballs. Let set.
- Serve now or store in the refrigerator up to two weeks.