Macaroni Kid Recipe: Easter Bunny Cake Pops

Cake pops make every celebration POP! Celebrate Easter with bunny-themed treats. 

• Cake Mix - any kind (boxed works great!)
• Frosting (you will use only a small portion of a container)
• Candy Melts (or colored melting chocolate)
• Lollipop Sticks
• Triangle Sprinkles
• Toothpicks
• Glue/Hot Glue
• Cardstock Paper
• Foam block or colander

Directions:

1.  Bake the cake according to the recipe.

2.  Let the cake cool to room temperature.  Mash it up in a bowl using your hands until it is fully crumbled.

3.  Slowly mix in your frosting until the cake crumbles form into balls.  Consistency is key - If the mixture is too dry, the cake won't stay together. If you add too much frosting, the cake balls won't stay on the stick.

4.  Chill the cake balls in the refrigerator.

5.  While your cake is cooling, cut out your rabbit ears. I recommend cutting two large solid-colored oval-ish shapes, and two smaller patterned oval-ish shapes, as shown in the photo below.

6. Glue your cut-outs together to form your ears.  You will need one set of ears per cake pop, so be sure to count how many cake pops you have chilling.

7. To make the ears easier to remove (when you're ready to eat them), hot glue the ears onto toothpicks.  Depending on the size of ears you've made, you may need to break the toothpick to fit nicely.

8. Once your ears are finished, you're ready to pull your cake pops out of the fridge.  Insert a lollipop stick into each cake ball.  If the balls have a tendency of falling off already, dip your lollipop stick into melted chocolate first.