Holilday Cake Pops

Love making these holiday cake pops - dont just have to be for the holidays even - I made them for thanksgiving but much larger - they were actually too big because they are very rich.  I also made them with a white pop stick in them for thanksgiving then realized I should try making them smaller and with a pretzel stick instead! Sweet and Savory goes so well together - so this is now how I will always make them! Here is the recipe its really so simple:

1 Box of Duncan Hines Cake Mix (I love the red velvet if you can find it - if not any kind you like is ok)
1 can of frosting - I use milk chocolate most of the time
Bag of pretzel sticks about 3 inches long and not the real skinny sticks use the medium size
Bags of Chocolate for dipping pops into - I use semi-sweet, bittersweet and white chocolate
any kind of nuts - just grind them up to sprinkle on
colored sprinkles or any type of decorations to sprinkle on

Follow directions on Cake mix - under bake by about 5 minutes
take out of the oven and let it cool down just alittle just till warm
put into a large bowl and crumble up
add the 1 can of frosting and mix up with your hands
make into balls
stick pretzel stick in and squeeze cake around stick so it will stay in
put in the freezer ( I put mine on a disposable cookie sheet covered with wax paper)
freeze for atleast 2 hours can be left in freezer for up to 1 week

Melt your chocolate in the microwave in a small dipping bowl follow directions on the bag on microwave melting - mine said 1 minute in micro and that worked fine
then dip your frozen cake pops into chocolate you will most likely need a spoon or little knife to smooth the chocolate all around and remove excess. Put back on the wax paper - I also try to seal the pretzel stick around the base of where it goes into the cake so it will stay in place and not side out
sprinkle immediately while chocolate is wet with whatever you want - sprinkles or nuts etc...
put back in freezer and take out 30 minutes prior to serving.

One note of caution White Chocolate is much harder to work with - it does not melt as easily as the semi or dark so just be more patient when working with white - but it does look great with blue sprinkles if you want to make those for hanukkah crowd!

If you make them the size in this photo - 1 cake mix will yield 40 cake pops!

They will be a big hit! Enjoy making them as much as I did:)