These Christmas themed cake pops were really fun to make, but oh, how time consuming they are. I actually made these for my co-workers for our annual holiday lunch. Again I found inspiration on the web and decided to recreate my version.
Items used:- Cake mix
- Frosting
- Chocolate melts
- White sprinkles
- Pretzels
- Black food gel pen
- Mini marshmallows
- Red & brown sixlets
- Orange tic tacs
- Green candy melt (un-melted)
- Rolos
- Airhead extreme sour candy
- Red & White paper straws
- Christmas ribbon
- treat bags/sandwich bags
I laid all of my ingredients out on a plate for easy access. I found the red & white striped paper straws at Target in their Christmas aisle. I'm not going to go through the steps of making the cake, so lets get right to the fun part! For the reindeer, I dipped the cake pop into the chocolate and immediately began to decorate before it hardened. I cut the pretzels somewhat down the middle/side as to give it an "E" shape. This was tough, most broke apart, so I went through a lot of pretzels. I stuck those in for the antlers. Then for the eyes I cut one mini marshmallow in half and stuck them into the still wet chocolate, and placed either a red or brown sixlet on for the nose. Once hardened I drew on the eyes & mouth with a black gel icing pen.
For the snowman, I put two cake balls on the straw and dipped into white candy melts and sprinkled with white sugar sprinkles right away to get a snowy look. Then I added an orange tic tac for the nose before the chocolate hardened. For the scarf I used rainbow colored airhead extreme sour candy. They were wider than I wanted the scarf to be so I cut them in half down the middle and folded them around the snow man. Because I cut the candy in half, some snow men had different colored scarves. For the hat I added melted chocolate as glue in between an un-melted green candy melt and a rolo and placed on top of the snowman using more melted chocolate as glue. Once dry I used the decorating icing pen to draw on the eyes, mouth and buttons.
My son enjoying the reindeer & snowman cake pops he made himself!
My brother's girlfriend requested a fruit turkey similar to the one I made in my thanksgiving blog, but wanted only grapes. I followed the same steps as the other fruit turkey using just the grapes and honeydew melon as the body. For the head, I re-purposed the slice of melon I took from the bottom and used toothpicks to secure it. I attached mini marshmallows for eyes, a grape for the beak, and a leftover airhead extreme for the same scarf as the snowman cake pop. Finally I drew the eye dots with the black gel pen, and ended up with this very animated looking turkey.
My son really enjoyed making these marshmallow snowman pops. They very easy to make & far less time consuming than the cake pops. We took popsicle sticks and stacked three marshmallows (medium & jumbo). For the hat I flattened a marshmallow and placed another medium marshmallow on top. I colored it by mixing the black gel pen with water and painting it on with a small paint brush. I took a green icing pen to go along the middle of the hat. I used the same pen to draw the eyes & mouth. The nose was made out of a broken orange sixlet...I could have just used the orange tic tacs left over though. I originally were drawing the buttons on with a blue gel pen but it began to drip & looked bad, so I wiped it off & used leftover green sixlets, but the blue still shows through...oh well! I drew the scarf with the green icing pen, and stuck in toothpicks for arms.
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