Halloween Cake Pops Recipe
Fun, colorful, and full of spooky spirit. These festive Halloween Cake Pops can be made with any cake mix and are the cutest dessert for any creepy crawly gathering!
Servings: 22 cake pops
Calories: 192kcal
Ingredients
- 1 box vanilla cake mix or any cake of your choosing
- 2-4 Tbsp frosting
- 8 oz white candy melts
- 8 oz dark green candy melts
- 8 oz orange candy melts
- 8 oz purple candy melts
- 4 tsp shortening
- small candy eyeballs
- medium candy eyeballs
- black decorating gel
Instructions
- Bake the cake mix according to the box directions.
- After the cake has baked, place the warm cake (you don't have to wait for it to cool) in a stand mixer and crumble it up using a paddle attachment.
- Once the cake is crumbled, add in your frosting. You can add an additional 1-2 Tablespoons of frosting based on your cake pop texture preference.
- Then using your cake pop dough, fill each of the smaller cake pop molds scraping off any excess on top and freeze for 30 minutes.
- While the cake is freezing in the mold, melt your candy melts and add about 1 teaspoon of shortening to each color to allow the consistency to be a little thinner and easier to work with.
- Then, remove the cakes from the freezer and pop them out of their mold. Then using the larger cake pop mold pour in the melted candy melts about halfway up the mold, add in the cake center and press down as far as you can so that the melts go up around the sides and top and then scrape or smooth the top over so that you can make an even pop in the mold.
- Place the mold in the fridge for 5-10 minutes to set.
- Once the pops are set, pop them out of the mold and you’re ready to decorate!
- Finally, design your best spooky creepy-crawly cake pops and enjoy!
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Notes
If you are using multiple candy melt colors, it is easiest to do one color at a time and then move on to the next color.
The melts set really quick, so I found it best to do one pop at a time. In addition, the bottom doesn't have to be perfect because this will end up being the bottoms of the cake pops.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cake pop | Calories: 192kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Sodium: 184mg | Potassium: 15mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 22g | Calcium: 52mg | Iron: 0.5mg
