These Pumpkin Cake Pops are the perfect bite sized treat for Halloween. Get the recipe below.
Trick or treat?
Halloween’s more than just a good excuse for fancy dress, it’s also a great excuse to do some themed baking, and this year is no exception.
Today I’m bringing to you Pumpkin Cake Pops. But, believe it or not they are NOT made with pumpkin puree, instead they are ginger cake with orange flavoured candy melt coating! A really fun flavour combination that might surprise some people.
Does that make these a trick or a treat? I think a treat!
The idea is simple make balls of cake mixed with icing that are shaped to look like pumpkins; they're perfect for Halloween parties being thrown all over the world.
The recipe
Top tip: these taste FAB with a dash or two of dark rum in the cake pop mix, for those adult Halloween parties.
Pumpkin Cake Pops
Ingredients
- 400 grams ginger cake
- 100 grams buttercream
- 150 grams candy melts orange
- writing icing to decorate
Instructions
- Crumble the cake into a bowl until an even consistency. You don’t want the crumb-like texture too fine, so try not to be too heavy handed, less is more!
- Next, stir in the buttercream. Again try to make sure it is mixed well and the butter cream is evenly distributed.
- Taking roughly a large tablespoon of the mixture at a time, roll the mixture into balls and place on to a sheet of greaseproof paper.
- Once you have rolled them all out place into the fridge for 5 mins while you melt the candy melts.
- Melt the candy melts according to their instructions. (I recommend doing this over a pan of simmering water rather than using the microwave).
- Once melted, stirring frequently, take off the heat and allow to cool down slightly.
- Take the cake pops out of the fridge and spoon over the candy melts as evenly as possible. Wipe away any excess at their bases.
- Allow them to set either naturally in the air or if you a pressed for time speed the process up by placing them in the fridge for 5 mins.
- Once set, you can decorate! I used green icing for the stalk, and black icing for their scary faces!
Nutrition
A top secret shortcut
You can choose to make your ginger cake and butter cream from scratch, but I won't tell anyone is you use shop bought! That way, the process of making tasty and beautiful cake pops is just that little bit easier and enjoyable as you are guaranteed at the level of quality of the cake pop itself.
For the ginger cake, use two McVities Jamaican Ginger Cakes. You can also use Betty Crocker’s Buttercream to combine with the ginger cake.
More halloween recipes
Halloween recipe archive
For even more Halloween themed recipes check out the Halloween recipe archive.
Happy Halloween!
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