Happy Halloween!

Now for quick Halloween post, before it’s time for a Christmas post!!  As usual, my friend Helen held a Halloween party, and I decided this was a good opportunity for me to try out cake pops again to take along to the party.  I made a batch of vanilla ones, and half a batch of chocolate ones ask hadn’t tried those before.  I spent quite a while melting the Candy Melts, trying again to get the right consistency.  I thought doing this in the microwave might give better results than over the hob, but I actually think this made it harder.  However, I didn’t want to spend too long on this, as figured I should be able to make up for any untidiness at this stage when I decorated them.  As getting the Candy Melts to a suitable consistency was so time consuming, I decided to only coat them in one colour – white.  This did restrict my options a little, but it was still pleased with the ideas I had and how they turned out.

Halloween cake pops

I began with some eyes balls, as I wanted something a little gruesome!  I used a red icing pen to make the eyes look blood shot, and coloured fondant discs for the irises and pupils.  Again I used coloured icing pens and strips of fondant to make the mummies, and circles of fondant draped over the pops to make the ghosts.  I was worried the ghosts might be too sweet with that much fondant on top of the Candy Melts, but everyone enjoyed them and commented they were their favourite looking pops!  I also decorated a few to look like Jack Skellington from the Nightmare before Christmas.

Spooky cake pops!

There’s still room for improvement so I’ll need to find another excuse to practice again….  I’m sure I won’t be short of volunteers to taste them!