Halloween Cake Pops

🧂 Ingredients

• 3/4 cup Cocoa
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter

  softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 1 cup salted butter
• 3 teaspoons vanilla
• 4 cups icing sugar
• 5-6 tablespoons heavy cream
• 2 cups orange candy melts

  for decorating
• 1/4 cup confectioners sugar

  for decorating
• green food colouring gel

  for decorating
• black food colouring gel or black food writer

  for decorating

Instructions

• 1 Heat oven to 350ºF. Grease and flour 9 x 13 inch cake pan
• 2 Mix cocoa with boiling water in small bowl, stir until smooth. Set aside to
  cool.
• 3 Beat butter and sugar in large bowl until fluffy.
• 4 Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
• 5 Stir in vanilla.
• 6 Gradually add cocoa mixture, beating well.
• 7 In separate bowl mix together flour, baking soda and salt.
• 8 Add flour mixture, alternately with milk and sour cream, into butter mix, until
  well blended.
• 9 Pour batter into prepared pan.
• 10 Bake 30-40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
  Cool.
• 11 Using paddle beater, whip butter until fluffy
• 12 Add in the icing sugar
• 13 Add in the cream, for cake pops I keep the icing fairly firm.
• 14 Continue to mix until fluffy and thoroughly combined.

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