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Cheery Christmas trees

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Ingredients

  • 48 uncoated basic cake balls formed into cone shapes (please see separate recipe)
  • 48 ounce (3 pounds) dark green candy coating
  • 48 ounce paper lollipop sticks
  • 48 ounce yellow jumbo star sprinkles

Preparation

Baking Directions:

Use multicolored rainbow chip sprinkles to decorate Christmas tree cake pops.

Top them off with jumbo star sprinkles.

To decorateHave the cake balls chilled and in the refrigerator.

Melt the green candy coating in a microwave-safe plastic bowl, following the instructions on the package.

Make sure the bowl is filled deep enough with candy coating so you can submerge the entire cone-shaped cake pop in one dunk.

When you are ready to dip, remove a few cake balls at a time from the refrigerator, keeping the rest chilled.

One at a time, dip about 1/2 inch of the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted candy coating, and insert the stick straight into the flat bottom of a shaped cake ball, pushing it no more than halfway through.

Dip the cake pop into the melted coating, and tap off any excess coating: Hold the pop over the bowl in one hand, and tap your wrist gently with your other hand.

If you use the hand holding the cake pop to shake off excess coating, the force of the movement will be too strong and could cause the cake ball to loosen or fly off the lollipop stick.

Tapping the wrist holding the cake pop absorbs some of the impact.

The excess coating will fall off, but you will need to rotate the lollipop stick so the coating doesn't build up on one side, making it too heavy on that side.

If too much coating starts to build up at the base of the stick, simply use your finger to wipe it off, spinning the lollipop stick at the same time.

This can happen if the coating is too thin or too hot.

It's not as hard as it sounds; it just takes a little practice.

Before the coating sets, use a toothpick to drag gently through the coating, creating branches.

Just touch the toothpick on the wet coating and pull it away from the pop several times.

You can also use the toothpick to apply more coating to the cake pop if necessary.

Then place a jumbo star sprinkle on top of the tree.

Let dry completely in a Styrofoam block.

When the trees are dry, use a toothpick to apply dots of melted green candy coating to the tree in the places you want ornaments, and attach multicolored rainbow chip sprinkles.

Let dry completely in the Styrofoam block.

Tips:

If you don't want branches, forget the toothpick and just go ahead and attach the rainbow chip sprinkles to the smooth surface of the tree-shaped cake pops.