St.Patricks' Day Cake Pops (Leprechaun Cake Pops)
Learn how to make easy homemade St.Patrick's Day cake pops with simple ingredients. These leprechaun cake pops are fun to make with kids.
Servings: 10 Cake pops
Calories: 265kcal
Ingredients
- 1 Carrot cake
- ¼-1/2 cup Cream cheese frosting
- 2 cups White chocolate Melted
- 10 Ice cream wafer cones
- 1 cup Green sanding sugar
- 2 cups Green candy melts Melted
- 1 cup Orange candy melts Melted
Instructions
- Bake cake and allow it to cool fully.
- While cake is baking and cooling, prepare the frosting.
- In a large mixing bowl, add cake, frosting and mix until you have a dough-like consistency which is moist and slightly crumbly.
- Start by adding a little frosting a (1 tablespoon at a time), while mixing. The amount of icing will depend on how moist your cake is. Typically, you need to add more icing to dry cakes and less icing to moist cakes.
- Use a small ice cream scooper or spoon out small portions of this mixture and roll into balls.
- Place them on a baking tray, lined with wax paper.
- Dip the tip of your lollipop sticks in melted white chocolate and push these coated sticks into cake balls.
- Chill in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
- While those are chilling, prepare the wafer cone hats. Pour melted green chocolate on an upside down wafer cone. Before the chocolate has a chance to set, sprinkle green sanding sugar. Allow the chocolate to set at room temperature.
- Remove cake pops from the refrigerator and dip them in a bowl of melted white chocolate individually. Tap on the side of the bowl to remove excess chocolate.
- Push the sticks on a block of styrofoam and allow the chocolate to set at room temperature.
- Now, time to assemble it all together. Pour some melted white chocolate on top the cake pop. Stick your green wafer cone hat here. Hold it in place for a few seconds until secure.
- Add details to the hat with fondant or candies and stick them into place with melted chocolate.
- For the leprechaun's hair, beard and mustache, use melted orange chocolate that's been poured in a squeeze bottle. Create a rustic hairy pattern/design with the tip of your squeeze bottle, wherever necessary.
- For the eyes, you can use store-bought eyeball candies or use a large round or oval sprinkle and draw details on it with a black edible marker. Stick them into place with melted chocolate.
- For the nose, use a large round red sprinkle and stick it into place with melted chocolate and you are done. Enjoy.
Notes
- Read all my tips above.
- Store in a covered box away from direct heat at room temperature for 2-3 hours (because cream cheese icing was used and that can go bad quickly) or store in refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 265kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 36mg | Sodium: 227mg | Potassium: 108mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 32g | Vitamin A: 54IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 74mg | Iron: 1mg