How To Make Easy Halloween Cake Pops

Making Halloween Cake Pops at home should be easy, fun, and without any hiccups along the way. These spooky cake pops are especially simple to make, keeping the whole process a breeze, just as it should be!

Choose from three Halloween Cake Pop decorating ideas -- Ghosts, Mummies, or Little Monsters -- to add an especially festive touch to your Halloween party! In addition to the spookiest, cutest pops on the block, we'll also be covering a little Cake Pop 101, and gathering up some great info with tips like how to make boxed cake mix taste homemade, how to get surprisesprinkles inside, how to go from cake ball to cake pop...and make it stay there, a hack for easily frosting cake pops, plus, storage and freezing tips!

Cake pops aren't necessarily difficult to make, but because they're decorative, they do require more steps than most desserts. This, in addition to the fact that the cake is going to be demolished into crumbs, is the reason I use a boxed cake mix for cake pops. It cuts back on the workload and keeps the process fun.

Cute Halloween Cake Pop Recipes

However, you can make your boxed-cake cake pops taste homemade with a just a couple of simple additions. The difference a teensy bit of salt and pure vanilla extract can make is almost unbelievable.

Bake the cake according to package directions. Then, once the cake has cooled, add it to the mixing bowl in large pieces, and crumble it up with your hands. Add some buttercream frosting (I also opt for store-bought here), along with a generous pinch of salt and a helping of pure vanilla extract. If you want to add an extra special touch, now's the time to add some festively colored Jimmies Sprinkles! Mix it all up until well combined using either your hands or a sturdy wooden spoon.

Because you're adding icing to your cake pops (which is essentially a wet ingredient), you can expect the texture to be very moist, and almost sticky. This is completely normal...and delicious.

Monster Cake Pops

Once you've got your cake ball mix ready to rock, it's time to roll them into balls, which will eventually go into the freezer. Scoop up about 2 scant tablespoons of the mix, and roll into a ball using cupped hands. Cupping your hands while rolling into balls will help it to round out nicely.

Once the balls have been formed, it's time to transfer them to the freezer. This is an important step in undergoing the transformation from cake ball to cake pop. The cake balls will need to stay in the freezer for at least 1 hour. It's best if you can freeze them on a flat surface, such as a baking sheet lined with wax paper, however, if you can't fit a baking sheet in your freezer, you can use a food-safe storage container. Just be sure you use wax paper in between the layers of the cake balls to keep them from sticking to one another.

Once the cake balls have hardened in the freezer, it's time to add the lollipop sticks! But wait -- there's something you should consider first! How are you going to display your cake pops? Will the cake pops be upright? Or will the cake ball itself be placed on a flat surface?

Halloween Monster Cake Pops

Dip the tip of the lollipop stick in melted wafers, andinsert it directly in the center of the cake pop about ¾ of the way into the depth of the cake ball.

This is the really easy part. Candy melting wafers are what is used for the exterior of cake pops. I always use Ghirardelli Melting Wafers because of the superior taste and quality, but you can find other, less expensive brands at specialty craft stores like Hobby Lobby and Michaels.

Melt your candy wafers according to package directions and it's time to dip. Dip the cake pop in the melted wafers, and allow as much excess to drip off as possible before decorating. Be sure to set them on a nonstick surface after they've been dipped. Wax paper works best!

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When I dip my cake pops, I do it in a Pyrex measuring cup. Its slender form makes it much easier to fully submerge the cake pop, much more so than a wide, shallow bowl.

It's best to judge by weight as different brands of melting wafers come in different sizes. 36 ounces of melting wafers will coat up to 30 cake pops.

Your cake pops will stay good for 3-4 days at room temperature in a sealed, airtight container, but they'll stay good for 6-8 weeks in the freezer! To make cake pops ahead of time and freeze them, simply place them in a freezer-safe container large enough to house them without crowding, and separate each layer with a sheet of wax paper. Seal them, and freeze!

Halloween Mummy Cake Pops

Fun part -- the decorating! All three of these Halloween Cake Pop decorating ideas were designed to be easy, fun, and completely doable for a first-time cake pop maker! They require minimal extra ingredients and steps, and they are decorating techniques that the children could easily get in on.

Ghost Halloween Cake Pops are a monster party hit, and if you choose to go with this decorating method, you'll soon see, the kids

After you've formed the cake ball, you'll begin to taper one end, forming it into a bell shape. This will be the head of the ghost. Then, gently pinch the bottom all around to form the skirt of the ghost. From there, processed with the recipe as directed.

Easy Halloween Cake

The cake pop will take a dip in the melted wafers, and is finished off by the simple addition of two candy eye decals and one black nonpareil for the mouth. If you love the Ghost Cake Pops, you'll also adore these Ghost Halloween Brownie Bites made with marshmallows and candy melting wafers!

Once the cake pops are coated in melted wafers, you simply add either two red nonpareils or candy eye decals. Then, once all of the decals have been added to all the cake pops, you'll take scant spoonfuls of melted wafers and quickly drizzle back and forth, across the top, and all across the sides.

Monster Halloween Cake Pops were made for all the chocolate lovers out there, and you could easily swap out the yellow cake mix for a chocolate cake mix to make it even more chocolatey. However, this would make it difficult to see all of those festive, colorful sprinkles inside!

Simple Halloween Cake Pops Recipe

After the cake pops have been coated in chocolate wafers, you'll add the eye decals (as many as you'd like or just one for a Cyclops monster), followed by a generous helping of chocolate Jimmies sprinkles! If you end up with leftover decor from this recipe, put them to good use making Cousin It Brownie Bites!

Halloween Cake Pops are delicious, festive handheld treats you could easily take down with one bite, making them the perfect addition to this year's Halloween party!