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Eerie eyeball pops

By Cassie Best

These spooky chocolate cake balls will be a hit with kids at Halloween – they can help decorate them too

Prep:30 mins
Cook:5 mins
Plus chilling

Easy

Nutrition per serving

kcal 242
fat 13g
saturates 7g
carbs 28g
sugars 24g
fibre 1g
protein 4g
salt 0.3g

Ingredients

100g/4oz Madeira cake
100g Oreo cookies
100g bar milk chocolate, melted
200g bar white chocolate, melted
few Smarties and icing pens, to decorate
10 wooden skewers
½ small pumpkin or butternut squash, deseeded, to stand pops in

Method

Break the Madeira cake and cookies into the bowl of a food processor, pour in the melted milk chocolate and whizz to combine.
Tip the mixture into a bowl, then use your hands to roll into about 10 walnut-sized balls. Chill for 2 hrs until really firm.
Push a skewer into each ball, then carefully spoon the white chocolate over the cake balls to completely cover. Stand the cake pops in the pumpkin, then press a Smartie onto the surface while wet. Chill again until the chocolate has set. Before serving, using the icing pens, add a pupil to each Smartie and wiggly red veins to the eyeballs.

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