Eeeeek! You’re about to get caught up in a web … of Halloween adorableness. These creepy, crawly cake pops will put a little spook in your holiday strut. It take a few steps to make ’em, but it’s not hard. Best of all, this recipe is totally forgiving. Even if your spider details aren’t exactly perfect, the finished effect is totally cute enough to eat. We promise.
Slice cake into about 8 pieces, and place into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Run the mixer on low for a few minutes, until cake is crumbled into fine pieces. Add frosting a few tablespoons at a time, then mix on low for a few minutes. Continue adding frosting and mixing until the dough is a play dough-like consistency.
Use a portion scoop or a food scale to portion your dough uniformly. Roll each portion into a ball and place onto a waxed paper–lined cookie sheet. Refrigerate while you prepare the other elements of the cake pops.
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Next, prep the licorice legs. If you’re using licorice rope, cut it into 1″ pieces and then trim each of those into thin strips. If you’re using thin licorice laces, simply cut them to 1″ pieces.
Melt the candy coating , heating each color in separate bowls. Microwave each color for 1 minute at 50 percent power. Stir. Continue to microwave at 50 percent power in 30-second bursts, stirring between each heating interval, until melted and smooth.
If your black candy coating is really thick once melted — which tends to happen with this color! — add paramount crystals and stir until it’s the consistency of wet paint. (You can also thin it with coconut oil!)
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Place the melted white coating in a zip-top bag and snip the tip of the bag to use like a piping bag. Pipe spiderwebs, about 3″ in diameter, onto a wax-paper lined cookie sheet. Start by making six intersecting lines (like an asterisk), then pipe scalloped lines between the six spokes.
Remove the cake pop forms from the fridge and let sit at room temperature for 5-10 minutes to take the chill off. Dip ⅓” of the lollipop stick into the coating and insert into the cake ball until about halfway through. Repeat for all cake balls.
Working one at a time, dip your cake pop into the black candy coating. Submerge completely into the coating until it meets the stick. Lift it out and give a gentle shake in an up and down motion.
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If the coating on the cake pop dries before you can adhere all the candy eyes, dab a bit of coating onto the back of each eyeball.
Use the white coating to create fangs on the mouth area and to “glue” each spiderweb on the back of the cake ball.It’s the turn of the cake pops today in our series of utterly adorable Halloween tutorials. These chocolate spider cake pops are less creepy crawly and more fantastically friendly! Cute desserts or cake decorations aren’t just for kids. When the holiday season comes around each year we often find the biggest kids of all are anyone over 25! So why not dress up your spooktacular Halloween party with these chocolate spider cake pops? Psst… they’re also perfect for goody bags too!
01: In a bowl crumble up as much chocolate as you think you’ll need into a fine crumb. Try not to leave larger lumps in this mix or you’ll end up with lumpy and bumpy cake pops. Not a good look!
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02: Add in a little of your chocolate buttercream at a time. Never add great big dollops in. You want your cake and buttercream mixture to be sturdy, but moist enough to hold together. Adding too much buttercream makes them unstable and sloppy. Adding too little buttercream will make them crumbly and a nightmare to work with.
Your cake pop mix is ready and perfect when you can push a cake pop stick into a formed cake ball and no cracks appear! If it cracks or if it begins to crumble add a little more buttercream. If your cake pop doesn’t crack, but instead looks misshapen or even flat then it’s likely to be sloppy. Add a bit more cake crumble!
03: Now roll portions of your cake pop mix into smooth balls. Make sure that these are all even and equal in size.
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To get equal sized cake pops we weigh our cake pop mix to make sure that each ball weighs exactly 25g. You can make your’s larger if you like, but remember that the larger or heavier the pop the less stable it will be on your cake pop stick! Once you’ve added the coating and any decorations too it adds a little weight and makes your cake pop bigger in size!
04: Dip a cake pop stand in a little candy melt and push into the top centres of your cake balls to make them pops! Try to push the stick around 2/3rds into the ball. Push too far and it will drive through to the other end. Too shallow and your cake pop will risk falling off! Once all your pops are on their sticks you can place them in the fridge for around 30mins to 1 hour!
If you want your spider cake pops to set in nice round balls that sit at the top of your sticks you’ll need to chill them in the fridge on a cake pop stand. Otherwise, you can leave your pops to sit cake pop down with the stick upwards. You’ll get flat bottoms if you do this, but that’s fine. It’s just a case of how you want them to look in the end!
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05: Prep your candy melts by microwaving them in a microwave safe bowl or jug at 30 second intervals until fully melted! An average 397g bag of candy melts tends to be OK for around 20-25 cake pops. You should get your melts ready to dip your cake pops around 5 minutes before removing your pops from the fridge.
Be aware though that you need a a good amount of candy melts to make the dipping process stress free! Too little or too shallow and you’ll have to keep dipping and swirling your pop. This could make it break or even lead to an uneven coating.
06: Once chilled (they should feel firm and secure) you can coat your cake pops! Take your bowl or jug and tilt the melts to one side. Take your cake pop and carefully dip it in until fully submerged, to where the top of the pop meets the stick.
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Once you’ve got a good coating (you may need to tilt the bowl or jug around the pop) gently tap it on the side (with the stick) to shake off any excess candy melt.
07: Set your cake pop down (either stuck into a cake pop stand or stood up) and snip your candy laces down to a good size (approx. 1 inch is good). You’ll need 8 pieces per cake pop. Whilst your candy coating is still wet carefully push the candy laces in. These are your spider’s legs so you’ll need to add 4 on each side along the bottom.
08: Whilst your cake pop coating is still wet add two pink confetti sprinkles to the sides of it’s face to create lovely rosy cheeks. Set aside your spider cake pops to fully set.
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09: Once your cake pops have set roll two small balls of white fondant / sugar paste to create the eyes and attach with a dab of edible glue to the front of your spider. Take two black edible sugar pearls and attach with edible glue for pupils.
10: Add a cheeky little smile to your spider’s face if you like! We rolled out white fondant / sugar paste with a small rollin pin, cut out a series of circles with a small round piping tip and cut each circle in half for a toothy grin!
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