Ingredients
- One 13×9 cake – make it from scratch, or make it from a box.
- 1/2 cup cake frosting – use already made
- Orange candy melts, or white candy melts colored with oil-based food coloring
- Green Tic Tacs (for the stems)
- Lollipop Sticks
- Wax paper
- (optional) Edible Pen or Marker to make jack-o-lantern faces
- styrofoam block
- toothpicks
Instructions
- Start by making the cake and letting it cool completely. Cut the corner crusts off to help the cake mixture keep a nice consistency.
- Spoon the cake into a large bowl and crumble it up with a pastry cutter.
- Add in the frosting. Combine with the pastry cutter.
- Form the cake/frosting mixture into quarter-ish-sized balls and place them on a baking sheet lined with wax paper.
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave or on a double boiler, according to package instructions. Be careful not to overheat. Dip a lollipop stick about 1/4″ into the chocolate and then halfway into the cake ball.
- Repeat the process on all of the cake balls. Now, somehow finagle your freezer so that you can pop the whole baking sheet in to chill for about 10 minutes.
- Get your candy coating ready. Dip each cake pop in and roll it a bit, using a knife or spoon to help get it coated. Use a toothpick to skim off any excess coating.
- Push the green Tic Tac into the top as a stem immediately, because the candy coating sets up fast. Use the Styrofoam block to hold the pops until the candy sets up.
- Once dry, feel free to draw on faces with an edible pen. Enjoy! :)
~Brie~