Friendly Little Lion Cake Pops

• 4 cups chocolate cake crumbs
• 1/3 cup chocolate frosting
• 12 oz white chocolate, broken into pieces
• None None Orange food color
• 22 None lollipop sticks
• None None Orange fruit roll-ups
• None None Brown, yellow, orange and red M&M's
• None None Vermicelli noodles, cut into 1-inch lengths
• 1/4 None quantity royal icing (see below)
• None None Black food color
• None None FOR THE ROYAL ICING
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 None egg white
• 1/4 tsp lemon juice

1. Combine cake crumbs and frosting in a large bowl. Using wet hands, shape level tablespoons of mixture into 22 balls, squeezing firmly. Place on a parchment paper-lined tray. Freeze for 1 hour or refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight, until firm.
2. In a medium heatproof bowl set over a medium saucepan of simmering water, melt white chocolate until smooth (don't let water touch bottom of bowl). Tint chocolate pale orange.
3. Dip the end of a lollipop stick into chocolate, then push it about halfway into a ball of cake. Return to tray. Repeat with remaining sticks and balls of cake. Place tray in the freezer for 5 mins to set.
4. Meanwhile, cut 22 small triangles from fruit roll-ups for noses. Cut brown M&M's in half; attach to the top of pops with a little of the chocolate to make ears. Let stand upright until set.
5. Dip one cake pop into the chocolate, covering the ears too, rocking back and forth to coat; don't swirl the pop, or it'll break. Allow excess chocolate to drip back into the bowl. Let stand upright in a styrofoam block until set. Repeat with remaining cake pops. Re-melt chocolate as necessary.
6. Cut an edge from each of the remaining M&M's; attach them to pops with a little chocolate for the mane. To make whiskers, attach 6 vermicelli pieces to each pop; top with fruit roll-up triangles for a nose. Stand pops upright until set.
7. For the royal icing, sift the powdered sugar through a fine sieve. Lightly beat the egg white in a small bowl until frothy. Beat in the powdered sugar, 1 tbsp at a time, until it reaches desired consistency. Using a wooden spoon, mix in in the lemon juice. Divide into quarters; reserve three-quarters for another use.
8. Tint royal icing black. Spoon icing into a small piping bag fitted with an 1/8-inch plain tip. Pipe on eyes and mouths.

chocolate cake crumbs, chocolate frosting, white chocolate, orange food color, lollipop sticks, orange fruit roll, brown, vermicelli noodles, black food color, icing, powdered sugar, egg white, lemon juice

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