“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” Cake Pops
Celebrate the wonderful world of Eric Carle with these easy & adorable "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Cake Pops! They're a great alternative to cake or cupcakes for a birthday party or a fun & easy treat for school!
Servings 40 Cake Pops
Calories 84kcal
Ingredients
- 40 small Donut Holes
- 40 8" Cookie Sticks
- 40 thin Pretzel Sticks, broken in half
- 1 bag of Red Melting Chocolate Discs (i.e. Wilton Candy Melts)
- 40 yellow Mini Marshmallows, each cut in half to form 80 circles
- 2 tbsp. Green Icing
- 2 tbsp. Dark Purple Icing
- 2 small Sandwich Bags or icing piping bags
- Floral Foam or cardboard box (i.e. cereal box with 40 holes punched - to allow the finished product to stand up in)
Instructions
- Melt 1/4 bag of melting chocolate per instructions. Working one at a time, use a cookie stick to puncture a hole 3/4th way through a donut hole, dip the tip of the cookie stick in melted chocolate & then reinsert into the hole of the donut. Lay on a cookie sheet or pan. Repeat with all 40 cookie sticks & donut holes.
- Refrigerate prepared donut holes on sticks for 1 hr or until chocolate is firm.
- Melt remaining chocolate per instructions. Working one at a time, dip donut hole into melted chocolate, rotating to coat evenly. Gently tap the stick against the edge of your bowl to remove any excess chocolate. Working quickly, affix 2 marshmallow discs to the front of your chocolate covered donut hole (to look like eyes). Gently press 2 pretzel halves into the top of your donut hole to look like antae. Push stick into floral foam or prepared cardboard box so the cake pop can stand upright & harden.
- Repeat with remaining donut holes on sticks, marshmallow discs, & pretzel sticks until all 40 cake pops are prepped.
- Place icing into bottom corner of each sandwich bag (green in one bag, purple in another bag) & twist the empty tops to form a tight seal around the icing. Snip off a tiny bit of the corner edge of each bag where the icing is nestled (start VERY small & test a bit of the icing - you can always cut off more).
- Carefully pipe a small line of green icing in the center of each marshmallow eye, to make the pupil.
- Pipe a medium sized dot of purple icing below the eyes of each cake pop, to form a nose.
- Allow your cake pops to harden in the refrigerator for at least 1 hr, or overnight.
- Serve as desired!
Notes
Don't want to make caterpillars? Use the same method of affixing and coating each donut hole, and then decorate them however you'd like!
Nutrition
Serving: 1cake pop | Calories: 84kcal | Carbohydrates: 11.7g | Protein: 0.9g | Fat: 3.8g | Saturated Fat: 1.3g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 90mg | Potassium: 15mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 6.8g | Calcium: 4mg