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Sweet snowmen

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Ingredients

  • 48 uncoated basic cake balls, formed into pear shapes (please see separate recipe)
  • 48 ounce (3 pounds) white candy coating
  • 48 ounce paper lollipop sticks
  • 48 ounce orange candy-coated sunflower seeds
  • 96 ounce chocolate jimmies
  • 144 ounce blue miniature confetti sprinkles
  • 48 ounce murray sugar-free chocolate bites cookies
  • 48 ounce large dark chocolate chips, such as ghirardelli

Preparation

Baking Directions:

To decorateHave the pear-shaped cake balls chilled and in the refrigerator.

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

The coating should be about 3 inches deep for easier dipping.

(I usually work with about 16 ounces of coating at a time.)

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 bottom side of a snowman body, 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.

While the coating is still wet, attach a sunflower seed in position for the nose and 2 chocolate jimmies in position for the arms.

Hold each in place for a few seconds until the candy coating sets like glue, and place in a Styrofoam block to dry.

Repeat until all the snowmen have noses and arms.

When the pops are dry, use a toothpick to dot a small amount of melted candy coating in position for buttons, and attach 3 blue confetti sprinkles to each snowman.

Draw on eyes and a dotted smile with an edible-ink pen and let dry completely in a Styrofoam block.

Pour the remaining melted coating into a small squeeze bottle.

Squeeze a small amount onto the very top of a snowman's head.

Attach 1 chocolate cookie.

Squeeze another small amount of coating in the center opening of the cookie.

Push 1 chocolate chip, pointed side down, into the center.

As you push, the melted candy coating will be forced up the side, giving you a white rim for the hat.

Place in the Styrofoam block to dry completely.