Step by Step
- Bake your favorite cake and cool completely.
- While the cake is baking, make your skeleton pieces. Melt the white candy melts in a microwave safe mug. Transfer to a sandwich baggie and snip off the corner. Fill in the skeleton mold and tap on the container to get the air bubble outs. Place in the freezer for 5 minutes to harden. Turn the mold out on the countertop and set the pieces aside.
- In a stand mixer, blend together the 1/2 of the cake with 2 tablespoons of your favorite frosting. This will blend together to make a dough. There should be no cake crumbs or blobs of frosting in the dough. It'll be smooth like play-doh.
- Use a cookie scoop to measure out your cake balls. Roll them smooth. Cover with wax paper and keep in the fridge while your melt your candy.
- Melt the black candy melts in a microwave safe mug. Stir until smooth and totally melted. Dip a lollipop stick or paper straw into the candy and then insert it into the cake ball. Add all the sticks/straws to the cake pop balls.
- Dip the cake pops into the black candy and tap off the excess. Sprinkle the purple and black sugar over the wet pop and set it aside to harden. Complete dipping all the cake pops.
- Add a bit of candy to the skeleton pieces and attach them to the cake pops.
- Serve at your Halloween party.
My tips
You can make cake pops in advance and freeze them until ready to serve. Simply put them into a plastic bag and then into a plastic container. Remove from the freezer 6 hours before you serve them but do NOT open the container until they are completely at room temperature.
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