Gobble, Gobble! Turkey Cake Pops!
 
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These turkey cake pops are perfect for an edible craft on Thanksgiving!
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Serves: 40
Ingredients
  • 1 box spice cake mix (plus ingredients for cake mix)
  • ½ cup cream cheese frosting
  • 2 packages (16 oz) Chocolate CANDIQUIK Candy Coating
  • 40 Ritz crackers
  • 1 bag candy corn
  • Sprinkles: hearts and candy eyes
  • 40 lollipop sticks
  • Styrofoam block (to set cake pops in while drying)
  • Optional: Small (1/2") pretzel pieces (legs)
Instructions
  1. Prepare and bake cake mix as directed on box.
  2. Crumble cake into a large bowl. Add frosting and mix thoroughly (it may be easier to use fingers to mix together).
  3. Chill for approximately 2 hours in the refrigerator (you can speed this up by placing in the freezer). While cake mixture is chilling, prepare the “feathers” of the turkeys by gathering the candy corn and round crackers.
  4. Melt Chocolate CANDIQUIK according to the directions on package.
  5. Dip crackers in chocolate CANDIQUIK and place on wax paper. Before dry, attach 4 pieces of candy corn on the top edge of each cracker. Let dry.
  6. Roll cake mixture into 1” sized balls; place on a wax paper covered baking sheet. Insert a lollipop stick into each cake ball.
  7. Re-melt Chocolate CANDIQUIK for 15 seconds or until smooth again. Be careful not to overheat.
  8. Dip cake pops in melted CANDIQUIK, coating completely and allow excess coating to drip off...and work quickly with the following instructions:
  9. Press a candy corn on the center of the cake pop as the nose. You might need to hold it there for a few seconds so it doesn't fall over.
  10. Next, attach the 2 eye sprinkles.
  11. Finally, press a heart sprinkle (upside-down) below the candy corn nose. (Be careful not to touch the chocolate coating.)
  12. Before the cake pop is completely dry, press and hold a chocolate coated cracker against the back of the turkey's head until attached, this should only take about 15 seconds. Place cake pop in the Styrofoam block to dry.
TIP: If cake balls start to stick, get gooey, or fall of the stick when dipping, place remaining cake balls in the refrigerator for an additional 20-30 minutes.
Recipe by Miss CANDIQUIK at http://blog.candiquik.com/turkey-cake-pops/