Gluten Free Cake Pops for Thanksgiving: Chocolate Acorns

Ingredients:

• 1 recipe Gluten Free Chocolate Cake
• 12 oz. real gluten free chocolate (not morsels or chips)
• 1 snack size bag of gluten free pretzels
• Chopped nuts or sprinkles
• Lollipop sticks

Instructions:

1. Bake the cake as instructed in the above link listed in the ingredients list, only to the point of baking and cooling. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set it aside.
2. Using an ice cream scooper, scoop some cake onto the parchment lined baking sheet.
3. Using your hands, roll the cake firmly in the palm of your hands. Form into an acorn shape and push one pretzel stick in the top center of each acorn pop. Push a lollipop stick through one side, at an angle; and transfer the sticks, cake pop side up, into a piece of styrofoam. (Another option is to set them in the holes of a colander cockeyed so that they do not fall through.) Repeat this process until the cake is used up and refrigerate the pops for at least an hour.
4. Once the cake pops are chilled, melt the chocolate in a heat-proof bowl over simmering hot water, stirring occasionally. Stir until all chocolate is almost melted, remove from stove, and continue to stir until all is melted.
5. While the chocolate is melting, touch up the cake pops if needed by smoothing them out between the palms of your hand.
6. Using a skewer or end of a butter knife, dab a bit of chocolate where the cake pop meets the stick to help it adhere to the stick and allow it to set. (This prevents them from falling into the bowl of chocolate.)
7. Dip each acorn into the melted chocolate, making sure that you twist it and allow all excess chocolate to drip off. Repeat dipping after set until smooth chocolate surface appears. You can also pipe out a stripe of chocolate which you can attach to the top as a stem using melted chocolate as glue.
8. Immediately add your chopped nuts or sprinkles.
9. Set the dipped cake pops in the styrofoam again and allow to set.
10. Store the cake pops in the refrigerator. Then 30 minutes before serving, take them out to reach room temperature.

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