Taste of Home_-_October 2019

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Cake Eyeballs
Customize these spooky sweets to your
liking with your favorite cake flavor.
—Taste of Home Test Kitchen

Prep: 1 hour • Bake: 35 min. + freezing
Makes: 2 dozen

1 pkg. cake mix of your choice
(regular size)

1 cup prepared frosting
of your choice
1 pkg. (12 oz .) each orange, black,
white, purple, vibrant green,
blue and pink Wilton candy melts
Decorations of your choice:
Candy coating disks, jumbo
sprinkles, candy-coated
sunflower kernels, candy
eyeballs, Twizzlers Rainbow
Twists, Life Savers, colored
sugar and assorted sprinkles

1. Prepare and bake cake mix according
   to package directions, using a greased
   13x9-in. baking pan. Cool completely
   on a wire rack.


2. Crumble cake into a large bowl.
   Add frosting and mix well. Shape into
   1 ¹₂-in. balls. Place on baking sheets.
   Chill cake balls until firm, at least
   2 hours in freezer or at least 3 hours
   in refrigerator.


3. In separate bowls, heat candy melts
   in the microwave until melted; stir until
   smooth. Dip each cake ball in coating;
   allow excess to drip of f. Decorate as
   desired. Let stand until set.
   1 cake pop: 182 cal., 8g fat (2g sat. fat),
   23mg chol., 208mg sod., 25g carb.
   (15g sugars, 1g fiber), 2g pro.

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