This week I decided to make some Halloween cake pops. I have made cake pops a few times on the channel in the past and they are a lot of fun to make. They make a great holiday food project for the dolls.
I looked at pictures online of real cake pops and chose two designs to replicate for the dolls this year.
The first step is to make the sticks that the cake pops will be attached to. For this I painted some round toothpicks with white craft paint then when they were dry I cut them to be 2” long. Do be careful and use a tool to cut them that is designed to cut hard materials. Don’t use regular scissors and that can be dangerous. I like to use some pet claw trimmers, they are designed to cut round hard pet claws so they work beautifully and as a plus they don’t mess up the round shape of the toothpick where you cut them.
Once you have the sticks prepared it is time to get to the clay part of the project.
To make the mummy cake pops I started with some Original Sculpey and rolled a snake that was about 3/8” in diameter. I then cut off a piece that was 3/8” long. You will do this for each mummy cake pop.
Roll the piece of clay you cut into a ball. Then dip the pointed end of one of the sticks we created into liquid polymer clay and push that into the cake ball.
Now take a small piece of the same clay and roll it out really thin then cut a narrow strip or two of it to use as the wrapping on the mummy. Be sure to leave a gap for his/her eyes to be placed in later.
Repeat this process for each mummy cake pop you are going to make. And put them onto your baking surface. I have a small rack that I bake things like this in that I made a few years ago.
Now let’s get the Jack-O-Lantern cake pops started.
For these you will need some orange polymer clay. Repeat the same steps of rolling a snake (3/8” diameter) and cut into 3/8” pieces.
Roll into a ball and add the stick.
Now take a really tiny bit of green clay and roll a tiny ball to put at the top of the cake pop for the stem. And move to your baking surface.
Bake the cake pops at the temperature recommended for the clay you are using for 15 minutes. Allow the clay to cool to room temperature.
Next we are going to add the features to our cake pops. For that I am using liquid polymer clay mixed with oil paint to make the color I want. If you have not worked with liquid clay very much I do recommend going to my channel and watching my clay 101 videos especially the one about working with liquid clay.
I used Titanium White oil paint to make some of the liquid clay a nice white and used a medium sized dotting tool to make two eyes in between the wrappings of each mummy face. These were then baked (at the recommended temperature for you clay) for 10 minutes. Allow to cool.
I then added a second layer of the white liquid clay and baked that. This gave me a much better “eye ball” effect because it stood out from the face a bit better and was more noticeable. Bake these for another 10 minutes and allow to completely cool to room temperature.
Once cooled I added the black pupils to the mummy’s eyes with a much smaller dotting tool. For this I had mixed some black oil paint with the liquid clay. Remember to use just a tiny amount of the pant in the liquid clay.
I used the same black mixture and small dotting tool to make the faces on the Jack-O-Lantern faces.
Once you have the faces painted with the liquid clay bake the cake pops a final time at the same temperature you have been using for another 10 minutes and allow to cool completely to room temperature before you touch the face. (the liquid clay will be a bit soft when it is still warm from baking)
And that is all there is to making these fun Halloween Cake Pops for the dolls.
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