Recipe Christmas Cake Pops

Insert the cake pops in the styrofoam block to set.

Recipe christmas cake pops. Let stand until firm. Place the chocolate into a small ziplock bag with the tip cut off and drizzle over the cake pops. Repeat with the remaining cake pops.

Place in the fridge for a couple of hours. Melt the semi sweet chocolate chips with shortening in a microwave safe bowl until smooth stirring every 30 seconds about 1 1 2 minutes total. Stir the hot water with the cocoa until smooth and leave to cool.

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy add the vanilla extract. Start rolling your frosted cake into 2 3 inch balls then shaping them into cones so that they start to take the form of a christmas tree. Sift the flour baking powder baking soda and salt together and set aside.

Beat powdered sugar butter and vanilla with an electric mixer on medium high speed in a medium bowl until smooth and fluffy about 2 minutes. Melt the chocolate candy wafers according to package instructions. If it looks too thick for dipping mix in vegetable shortening 1 teaspoon at a time to thin it.

Place wax paper on a clean working surface. Using a 2 inch cookie scoop drop mixture into mounds onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Insert lollipop sticks into florist s foam to stand pops upright.

Poke the pops into a piece of polystyrene or cake pop holder if you have one keeping the pops apart. Preheat oven to 180 c 350 f gas mark 4. Pipe lines of red frosting above and below the row of snowflake sprinkles.