Haven't got time to make cake pops? Left it to the last minute? Well, that's what I did yesterday. We had 40 minutes between getting home from school until we were due to leave to go to a friend's for a Halloween pre-trick-or-treating feast! And I had promised to make treats for the kids. Ooops!
Not to be deterred, I decided that I could improvise a cake pop out of a kids' energy snack bar! The ones I have are a bit like a flapjack or brownie... dense and chewy oatmeal based bars and very tasty! Perfect for molding onto a stick and covering in chocolate! Luckily, I had a pot of newly acquired Halloween sprinkles that were perfect for accessorizing the face!
You will need...
- A ready made snack that will firmly fix onto a lollipop stick. I used Clif energy snack bars, but you could adapt all sorts of things... rice krispie bars, even double stuffed Oreos would probably work!
- Lollipop sticks.
- Chocolate chips or candy wafers like Wilton Candy Melts.
- Sprinkles or candy to decorate... I had some brilliant candy eyes that I have been desperate to try out on a project!
This is a very easy project. Simply fix a lollipop stick into the snack bar, cookie or brownie and then decorate as for a cake pop. My earlier post with the Jack O Lantern cake pops I made for a school bake sale has detailed instructions on how to do this! I cut my energy bars in half to make them the perfect size. I thought that the rectangular shape was just crying out to be turned into Frankenstein's Monster, but it would also make a fabulous Sponge Bob Squarepants! Because the texture of the energy bar is quite pliable I guess I could have rolled it into a ball if needed. I used green candy melts to cover the whole snack. Then created the monster's face with a selection of seasonal candy sprinkles... candy eyes, bats for the eyebrows, tombstones for neck bolts and a moon for the mouth. I then dipped the very top in dark chocolate and used a spare lollipop stick to create the look of hair.
This took about 20 minutes in total... and another 5 minutes in the refrigerator to chill! A fabulous super-quick treat in under half an hour!
Very creative :)
Thanks, Rigby!!!