Cake Pops - Halloween Designs

As a small business owner, keeping your referral partners happy is key to continued referral business.  Typically I would make cookies or dipped pretzels - but this year I wanted to try something new.  I first saw cake pops online and so I ordered the book from well knows blogger Bakerella.

Since it was near Halloween I chose to make my first set with that theme.  Of course I used my favorite flavor cake to start with - Strawberry cake with Cream Cheese Icing... YUMM!

My first set was Ghosts and Frankensteins.  I used white and chocolate candy coating.  I didn't find any green so I colored it myself with candy coloring (you can't use food coloring).  I was pretty surprised with how well the green turned out.

I used the chocolate for the decor and my Food Doodler pens to make the stitches, nose and mouth.  Honestly when I was finished I wasn't sure what I thought.  I left them there for my husband to see and when I came back home he said "Those are great" and through his eyes I actually started liking how they turned out.

The great part was when you bit into his head - it was all pink on the inside... Ewww - perfect for Halloween.  The ghosts were super easy.   Just the white coating with the chocolate eyes and mouth.

I gave this batch out to my husbands co-workers, my graduating agility class and customers. I got some great feedback - yum, yum and is this for humans or dogs?  Mostly - yum!

So now I have to make more for my referral partners.  I liked how the Franks turned out so I went with them again except this time I bought the colored candy coating.  (did not like this as well as coloring my own, it was very thick and i had to thin it out with a lot of oil!!)

I didn't want to do boring ghosts again so I chose Mummies.  The white coating I found was actually bright white so I love how these turned out.  I enjoyed playing with the white strapping and making a curlie Q on top of his head.  This time I used Lemon Cake with Buttercream Icing.

I decided to try to make a round shape - so I did Pumpkins.  I used cut Mikes & Ikes as the green stem and the orange pre-colored candy coating.  I experienced the same thing with the pre-colored coating... very thick.  ugh!

These also were a big hit!  The people who gave feed back said - YUMMY and when are you going to make more?  I think now that it's November I'll trying something with the Fall/Autum theme.  Not sure but I already have Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese icing... mmmmm!