Christmas Cake Pops Tutorial: How To Make Holly Leaf Cake Pops

For the Holly Leaf Cake Pops:

For these Cake Pops I baked my favourite Vanilla Cupcakes recipe and mixed the crumbs with my favourite frosting including raspberry puree to give it a yummy fruity taste!
Please prepare your cake pops as you normally do or use the ingredients and follow these instructions for the OREO kind:
1 package OREO cookies or for Europeans: 3 and a half packages a 176g
1 8oz. package cream cheese (I use 176g packages (6.2 ounces)
Wilton red Candy Melts
Wilton White Candy Melts
Lollipop Sticks
Or red/white striped paper straws (for an even cuter look!)
Or the ones I used: Polka Dot Paper Straws in Red & White
red sanding sugar
white sanding sugar (more sparkling) or regular sugar
Wilton Holly Mix Sprinkles
tweezers

Additional Items you may want to get, makes a nice gift:

Lollipop plastic covers, to give away
ribbon for tying, to give away
thin red ribbon to tie around basic white lollipop stick (this way you do not need red/white paper straws)

Now we are all set and ready to go: Prepare yourself before you actually start. Get everything out on the counter you need, so you do not stress yourself in the middle of the decorating process :-)
1. Now, make the NO BAKE Cake Pops: Grind your OREO cookies to fine crumbs in a Food Processor
2. Put the crumbmix into a boal and hand mix with cream cheese. I use gloves though, because it gets messy :-) Especially when you have longer nails, it takes a while to be “oreo/creamcheese-free” again. So just use gloves, or when you have kids, I am sure they would love to help you with this step :-)
3. Keep in mind that the dough should have the consistency of play-dough.
4. Roll the dough into balls, then refrigerate them for at least 10 minutes to firm up.
5. Now melt your red Candy Melts.
6. Dip a little bit of the Lollipop Stick in the melted candy, then stick the Lollipop Stick in the Cake Pop (half way). Let the Pops rest a bit in a styrofoam block or cake dummy so the candy melts set within the cake pop.

7. Please keep in mind that those cake pops in the photo above are no oreo ones, the vanilla cake was mixed with raspberry frosting = not coated yet!
8. Now dip the Cake Pop in the red Candy Melts and immediately after that, coat it completely (ignore the top since you coat it with white candy melts anyway) with red sanding sugar (I put gloves on) – repeat with all cake pops and let dry in styrofoam block.

10. Now comes the cuteness: Heat up your white candy melts and place a small amount of it (with a teaspoon) on top of the red cake pop. This will be your “snow”.

11. Now arrange your white candy melts, I usually use a teaspoon for that. arrange it the way you want to. As you can see in the photo underneath, the “snow” does not look smooth yet, that’s ok, the next step will follow =)