Black Cat and Ghost Cake Pops

Halloween is just around the corner, and it's time for more Halloween-themed cake pops!  Bring on the black cats and ghosts- cake pops, that is!

 The ghosts are very easy to make.  Once you have your initial cake balls ready, simply form them into a ghost shape.  Then dip in white candy coating, let dry, then draw on their faces with an edible ink pen.

The black cat cake pops take more effort.  Begin with your basic cake balls, and grab a few bags of black candy melts.  The melts I found weren't in the best condition, and they looked like they had melted a bit in the bag.  But what the heck, the cake pops would still taste good, so I decided to use them anyways.

Here are my cake balls (already chilled), and candy corn (cut down a little bit) for the ears.

Dip each piece of candy corn into melted candy coating.  Then insert them into the cake ball, waping away the excess candy coating.  Let set.

This reminded me of Christmas, I don't know why!

Here are the cat cake pops after dipping in the black candy coating.  I used Easter Egg sprinkles for the eyes, and candy heart sprinkles for the noses.  The orange 'bows' were two pumpkin sprinkles glued on their sides.  

The swirling patterns on some of the cake pops was due to the fact that the candy melts had previously been melted (in the bag).  I actually like how the swirls work on these- it looks more cat-like to me!

Here's how I added the collars to the cat cake pops.  Take some melted candy coating on a toothpick and spread it around the underside of a cake pop.

Slide your gummy life saver over the stick of the cake pop.

Press it gently on the base of the cake pop and let it dry upside down for a few minutes to set.  I placed mine a few at a time gently propped up on a clean tea towel before moving back to the styrofoam block.

I used a black edible ink pen to draw in the eyes and make little expressions on the faces.    I also glued on a bit of 'bling' onto the collars:  a black bat sprinkle.

Here's hoping you have a boo-tiful cake poppin' Halloween!