Pumpkin Cake Pops

Ok these look hard but are super easy to make. I thought they looked like fun I will be making tons of these this year!!

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)

Special Equipment

• Lollipop Sticks
• Wax paper
• (optional) Edible Pen or Marker to make jack-o-lantern faces
• styrofoam block
• toothpicks

Instructions

1. Start by making the cake and letting it cool completely. Cut the corner crusts off to help the cake mixture keep a nice consistency.
2. Spoon the cake into a large bowl and crumble it up with a pastry cutter.
3. Add in the frosting. Combine with the pastry cutter.
4. Form the cake/frosting mixture into quarter-ish-sized balls and place them on a baking sheet lined with wax paper.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Once dry, feel free to draw on faces with an edible pen. Enjoy! :)

~Brie~