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.