Ginger Head Pops

My boyfriend's mother, Jamey, loves pumpkin.  With her birthday coming up, I knew I wanted to make some pumpkin flavored cake truffles for her.  What I came up with were yummy spiced pumpkin cake dipped in vanilla candy coating and rolled in one of two kinds of crushed cookies: graham cracker crumbs reminiscent of pumpkin pie, and ginger snaps for some extra spiciness.

The cake truffles covered with the crunchy ginger snap bits really worked out well, so I made cake pop versions.  For our craft show at work.  When I told my friend Nicole (who is also a big pumpkin fan) about the pops and showed her a picture, she said they looked like mini ginger heads!   (We love gingers... my boyfriend, RJ, and Nicole's best friend Steph both happen to be redheads.)  I laughed, and the pops were thereby dubbed Ginger Head Pops in their honor.

Strawberry Pop Tart Pops!

Another genius idea from the boyfriend who asked if I could make a cake pop like a pop tart.  I thought about it for a while, I mean, the graham cracker crumbs I thought of right away.  That's half of what makes a pop tart so good: that sweet, crunchy bite.  My cake crumb mixture is so moist, it has that consistency that you find in the middle of a pop tart, but it wasn't until I saw the confetti candy melts that I knew I could pull it off!  The white candy with the tiny multicolored dots reminded me so much of the strawberry pop tarts I love.

So here it is... strawberry cake, surrounded by vanilla candy and rolled in crushed graham cracker crumbs and then topped with confetti candy.  I don't suggest putting these babies in the toaster, but we're happy they turned out so yummy!  And so cute!