Food Network Magazine - (04)April 2020

CARROT CAKE POPS

ACTIVE: 1 hr l TOTAL: 2½ hr

MAKES: 12 to 15 carrots

Cooking spray

1 15- to 16-ounce box

carrot cake mix (plus

required ingredients)

1 cup cream cheese frosting

2 12-ounce bags orange

candy melts

6 red candy melts

2 tablespoons cocoa powder

Green apple licorice, cut into

½-inch pieces

For April Fools’ Day, trick

everyone with cake pops

that look like carrots.

hese aren’t garden-

variety carrots:

They’re carrot cakes!

To make the veggie

lookalikes, we mixed

crumbled carrot cake and

cream cheese frosting,

formed it into logs, then

coated the faux carrots in

orange candy melts. The

finishing touches: some

scratches for texture, a

little cocoa powder for

dirt and a green licorice

stem. Turn the page for

the how-to.

fun

cooking

APRIL 2020 ●FOOD NETWORK MAGAZINE 57

PHOTOS: RALPH SMITH; FOOD STYLING: KAREN TACK; PROP STYLING: PAIGE HICKS.

Piocoo.

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