These snowman cake pops are the perfect treat to get your family in the Holiday mood. They are so cute and my favorite part is, they don’t have to look perfect, let it be a melting or textured snowman. It’s okay! Anyone with one of these adorable snowmen in their hands will be beaming from ear to ear. Also I know cake pops get a bad rep because they can be labor intense to make, but they don’t have to be! I’m making these cake pops with leftover cupcakes that I had from a holiday get together; it doesn’t get easier than that!
Prep Tips
Cupcakes: I’m using leftover cupcakes that I had already baked for an event that I decorated with frosting on top, but if you don’t have cupcakes ready to use, you can use on single layer un-iced 8 inch cake with about 1 cup of frosting. I have not used store bought cupcakes, however I think they would work great too! The biggest difference might be in the frosting, sometimes store bought cupcakes can tend to have a waxy frosting – however you can really give these that homemade taste if you scrape off the frosting and make your own.
Snowman Cake Pops
Ingredients
- 5 vanilla cupcakes, frosted
- 5 vanilla cupcakes, unfrosted
- 1/2 – 1 (12 ounce) bag white chocolate chips
- Mini milk chocolate M&Ms
- Black candy melts
- Blue or any other color of choice candy melts
- 5 lollipop sticks
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, crumble up the cupcakes until there are no big clumps and the frosting is fully incorporated throughout the mixture. Form a ball and if the texture is too crumbly, add more frosting (see frosting recipe below if needed)
- Form 5 smaller cake balls and 5 larger cake balls. Place in the freezer for at least 30 minutes
- Melt white chocolate according to the package directions. Remove cake pops from freezer. Stack smaller cake pop ball onto the larger cake pop ball forming the snowman’s body. Dip one end of the lollipop stick into the melted white chocolate and insert into the top of the stacked cake pop, continue until all 5 cake pops have sticks in them. Dip the cake pop into the melted candy melts, rolling them around in the bowl until fully coated or using a spoon, spoon white chocolate over the cake pop. Set the snowman cake pop onto a parchment or wax paper lined baking sheet, so that the cake pops are standing upright. Using mini M&Ms place one on each side of the snowman’s head to create earmuffs. Then an orange M&M, placed vertically sideways into the middle of the face to create a “carrot” nose. Using melted black candy melts in a piping bag, pip on eyes, mouth, and buttons. Then using melted, color of choice, candy melts in a piping bag, pip on the scarf and connect the earmuffs together by piping on a line between the two M&Ms over the top of the snowman’s head
- Once candy coating is dry, place the cake pops in the refrigerator until ready to serve
Frosting Recipe
- 1 stick butter
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp heavy cream
- dash of salt
Instructions:
- With an electric mixer, mix all ingredients together until light and fluffy
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