When it comes to Halloween, there are lots of treats to segregate from but Halloween confection pops are a unconfined way to serve fun shit of confection on sticks decorated for the occasion. We’ll show you three ideas for how to make an easy eyeball confection pop, a bat confection pop, and a mummy confection pop just by subtracting few fun touches for your next Halloween party.
And whether it’s food, costumes, or decoration ideas you need, we’ve got tons of ideas to make this Halloween special!
Looking for increasingly Halloween treats? Trammels out:
- Halloween Punch Bowl
- Halloween Cupcakes – Easy Ideas
- Halloween No-Bake Truffles
- Witch Cupcakes for Halloween
- Evil Eye Halloween Cocktail
Want an easy no-bake “cake pop” idea? Try using large marshmallows on a stick and get to the decorating right away!
Tips for Making Confection Pops:
- Add your icing to your confection crumble in small quantities so you just get the point of having unbearable for it to stick together.
- Use a small cookie scoop to scoop confection mixture so you get plane portions for each confection pop.
- Make sure your confection balls are well-chilled surpassing coating.
- Have your decorations nearby and prepped to go so you can nail them while the chocolate is still melted.
- You can use a tall glass to pour your melted chocolate in so you have a little dunk tank to fully submerge your confection pop into.
What You Need to Make Confection Pops:
Cake mix: You can use any savor confection mix: chocolate, vanilla, red velvet, yellow, etc. Be sure to trammels your confection mix to ensure you have whatever other confection ingredients the mix recommends for sultry (eggs, oil, etc.).
Can of frosting: You will moreover need one container of store-bought frosting. I like to use anything with a simple texture like vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry.
Cake pop sticks: While it’s most worldwide to use sticks like this, you can moreover use forks or edible items like pretzel rods!
Candy melts: These discs of chocolate are the easiest way to get that chocolate coating as they melt hands and come in lots of verisimilitude options.
Microwave or Double Boiler: You can melt snacks melts in the microwave, but you can moreover use a double boiler to do it on the stove top or a chocolate melter like this one.
Edible decorations: For these Halloween confection pops you’ll want candy eyeballs for the mummy and bat, Oreo-type cookies for the bat wings, chocolate fries for the bat ears, green snacks melts or a large snacks eye for the eyeball and an edible marker to yank on the red veins.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you use chocolate fries instead of snacks melts for confection pops?
While snacks melts work weightier for confection pops, you can moreover use chocolate fries instead. The mixture will be a little thicker and slightly harder to work with (but still OK). And the shell virtually the confection pops will be thicker once the chocolate sets.
How to Make Halloween Confection Pops:
1. Bake the cake: Bake your confection equal to the package instructions and indulge to fully cool.
2. Add the frosting and mix: Spoon the baked confection into a large mixing bowl. Add 2/3 of the container of frosting. Using the full container makes the confection pops a bit too soft and harder to work with once we dip them in chocolate. But, this is how you get confection pops to stick together—with frosting. Use wipe hands to mix together the frosting and cake. The confection pop thrash is going to be pretty soft, but moldable.
3. Roll confection balls: Form your confection pop thrash into small balls (about 3-4 tablespoons each). You don’t want them to be too big, just so they hands fit in the palm of your hand.
Once you have worked all your pops (a standard size confection will make virtually 35-40 confection pops), put them in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours or the freezer for 30 minutes.
4. Melt your snacks melts: Melt snacks melts in the microwave in 30-second increments on half power. You could moreover use a double boiler to do it on the stove top or a chocolate melter like this one. If you need to thin your snacks melts, you can stir in a teaspoon of canola or vegetable oil once melted and can reheat the chocolate for 15 seconds at a time to remelt if it starts to set up at any point.
5. Nail the confection pop stick: First put your stick into the melted chocolate and push the stick 2/3 through a unprepossessed confection pop.
6. Dip the confection pop: Dip the tying confection pop into the melted chocolate and indulge any glut chocolate to lard off the pop. Gently tap the confection pop stick on the side of your trencher to moreover shake off uneaten chocolate. Then, add any uneaten decorations and store the confection pop upright while it sets (unless you don’t mind a unappetizing bottomed confection pop).
You can alimony them upright in a number of ways like sticking them into a container that is filled with granulated white sugar or rice or you can stick them into a woodcut of styrofoam.
How to make a mummy Halloween confection pop:
- Follow directions whilom to make a unstipulated confection pop and dip the confection pop into white chocolate.
- Add two snacks vision and let the chocolate set.
- Using increasingly melted white chocolate, either use a piping bag (or a ziplock baggie with a bit of the corner tip cut off) or a spoon to drizzle lines of chocolate over the mummy squatter to make the wrapping effect.
- Allow the drizzled chocolate to set and your mummies are ready!
How to make a bat Halloween confection pop:
- Follow directions whilom to make a unstipulated confection pop and dip the confection pop into woebegone or brown chocolate.
- Add two snacks eyes, half an Oreo or chocolate cookie into each side for the wings, two chocolate fries on top for ears, and let the chocolate set.
TIP: When subtracting the bat wings, have your confection pop standing up in a stand or jar of rice/sugar to hold it upright and insert the wings on both sides at the same time. Just go in far unbearable to stick but not so far that you split your confection pop in half.
- Once the chocolate is set, your bats are ready to eat!
How to make an eyeball Halloween confection pop:
- Follow directions whilom to make a unstipulated confection pop and dip the confection pop into white chocolate.
- Add a green snacks melts or a large snacks eye to the eyeball and let the chocolate set. If you do the snacks melt, you can add some melted woebegone chocolate to a ziplock bag, cut the corner, and add a waif of woebegone for the pupil or you can yank it on with a black supplies marker.
- Allow the confection pop to dry and then yank on red veins with a supplies marker and you’re ready to serve!
Looking for increasingly confection pop tips? Trammels out our How To Make Confection Pops for more!
How cute are those?! We love a good Halloween treat that is a little spooky but mostly fun. You can moreover use a little supplies dye in vanilla confection to make the inside confection pop thrash a fun Halloween verisimilitude for an uneaten surprise when you zest inside. Happy baking!
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I make no-bake confection pops with a premade cake?
Yes! You can use an sweetie-pie supplies confection that’s once made from the store, just add the icing little by little until the confection sticks together to make your balls.
How do I store my confection pops?
If making these superiority of time, you can store your completed confection pops at room temperature for 1-2 weeks. You can store them for up to four weeks in the refrigerator, but the unprepossessed can create some condensation on your decorations and rationalization them to transude or warp a bit.
3 Easy Halloween Confection Pop Ideas
Equipment
- 1 small cookie scoop optional
- 35-40 confection pop sticks
- 1 microwave or double boiler
- ziplock baggie or piping bag
Ingredients
- 1 boxed confection mix and whatever other ingredients you need to make the confection (eggs, oil, etc.)
- ¾ of a 16-ounce can of frosting (add little by little until you have right consistency)
- candy melts in white or woebegone chocolate
For Bat Confection Pops
- Oreo-type cookies for wings
- chocolate fries for ears
- candy eyes
For Mummy Confection Pops
- candy eyes
For Eyeball Confection Pops
- green snacks melts
- red supplies marker
Instructions
- 1. Bake the cake: Bake your confection equal to the package instructions and indulge to fully cool.
- 2. Add the frosting and mix: Spoon the baked confection into a large mixing bowl. Add 2/3 of the container of frosting. Using the full container makes the confection pops a bit too soft and harder to work with once we dip them in chocolate. But, this is how you get confection pops to stick together—with frosting. Use wipe hands to mix together the frosting and cake. The confection pop thrash is going to be pretty soft, but moldable. Should finger like play dough consistency.
- 3. Roll confection balls: Form your confection pop thrash into small balls (about 3-4 tablespoons each). You don’t want them to be too big, just so they hands fit in the palm of your hand. Once you have worked all your pops (a standard size confection will make virtually 35-40 confection pops), put them in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours or the freezer for 30 minutes.
- 4. Melt your snacks melts: Melt snacks melts in the microwave in 30-second increments on half power. You could moreover use a double boiler to do it on the stove top or a chocolate melter like this one. If you need to thin your snacks melts, you can stir in a teaspoon of canola or vegetable oil once melted and you can reheat the chocolate for 15 seconds at a time to remelt if it starts to set up at any point.
- 5. Nail the confection pop stick: First put your stick into the melted chocolate and push the stick 2/3 through a unprepossessed confection pop.
- 6. Dip the confection pop: Dip the tying confection pop into the melted chocolate and indulge any glut chocolate to lard off the pop. Gently tap the confection pop stick on the side of your trencher to moreover shake off uneaten chocolate. Then, add any uneaten decorations and store the confection pop upright while it sets (unless you don’t mind a unappetizing bottomed confection pop).
Notes
- Follow directions whilom to make a unstipulated confection pop and dip the confection pop into white chocolate.
- Add two snacks vision and let the chocolate set.
- Using increasingly melted white chocolate, either use a piping bag (or a ziplock baggie with a bit of the corner tip cut off) or a spoon to drizzle lines of chocolate over the mummy squatter to make the wrapping effect.
- Allow the drizzled chocolate to set and your mummies are ready!
- Follow directions whilom to make a unstipulated confection pop and dip the confection pop into woebegone or brown chocolate.
- Add two snacks eyes, half an Oreo or chocolate cookie into each side for the wings, two chocolate fries on top for ears, and let the chocolate set.
- Once the chocolate is set, your bats are ready to eat!
- Follow directions whilom to make a unstipulated confection pop and dip the confection pop into white chocolate.
- Add a green snacks melts or a large snacks eye to the eyeball and let the chocolate set. If you do the snacks melt, you can add some melted woebegone chocolate to a ziplock bag, cut the corner, and add a waif of woebegone for the pupil or you can yank it on with a black food marker.
- Allow the confection pop to dry and then yank on red veins with a supplies marker and you’re ready to serve!
