Add a festive and delicious touch to your Halloween party with this Easy Halloween Cake Pops recipe. Betty Crocker™ Delights Super Moist™ Butter Pecan Cake Mix and Rich & Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting come together to create a dessert on a stick that's as fun to make as it is to eat! These tasty cake balls would also make a great trick-or-treat snack.
Easy Halloween Cake Pops
- Prep Time 50 min
- Total 1 hr 50 min
- Servings 54
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 1 box Betty Crocker™ Delights Super Moist™ Butter Pecan Cake Mix
- Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
- 1 cup from 1 tub (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting
- 3 cups orange candy melts
- 3 tablespoons shortening
- 3 cups black candy melts
- 54 paper lollipop sticks
- Halloween candy sprinkles
- Block of plastic foam
Instructions
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Step1Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan, using water, oil and eggs. Cool. Line cookie sheet with waxed paper. Crumble cake into large bowl. Add frosting; mix well. Shape into 1 1/4-inch balls; place on cookie sheet. Freeze until firm; keep refrigerated
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Step2In microwavable bowl, microwave orange candy melts and half of the shortening uncovered on Medium (50%) 1 minute, then in 15-second intervals, until melted; stir until smooth. Repeat with black candy melts and remaining shortening. Dip tip of 1 lollipop stick about 1/2 inch into either color melted candy and insert stick into 1 cake ball no more than halfway. Repeat. Return to cookie sheet. Refrigerate 5 minutes. Remove from refrigerator a few at a time. Dip half of the cake balls in melted orange candy and half in black candy; tap off excess. Decorate with candy sprinkles. Poke opposite end of stick into foam block. Let stand until set.
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Step3Reheat remaining melted candy if necessary. Drizzle orange pops with melted black candy; drizzle black pops with melted orange candy.
Nutrition
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