I decided to just make a few of each of these instead of trying to make full batches of each one.  These are extremely labor intensive as just one dozen of these took me about 2.5 hours to decorate.   Granted, that included dyeing the chocolate to the right colors first.  But each Santa Hat had to be dipped twice and reassembled with the stick each time.   The trees took the longest since this was mostly a timing issue.  Had to make it look like a tree and put the star on before the chocolate set.   The stars didn’t all make it before the chocolate set, so had to glue them on as well as each “light” individually.   I have come to find out that I don’t have very steady hands.  Good thing I didn’t become a surgeon!    The snowmen were pretty similiar to the ghosts I made for Halloween, so that was easy for me.  Hope you like them!

Here is a prime example of how candy inspires me to make cake balls.   Red/green/white colored candy corn and crushed candy canes!   Nothing says Happy Holidays like festive cake balls!

Ever since I got Bakerella’s Cake Pop book, I couldn’t wait for the holidays to come around because I wanted to make every single one of them!   Started off with the reindeer.   I couldn’t find the alphabet pretzels that she recommended using, so I just used regular pretzels and broke them into pieces.   The noses were made out of either red hots, red peanut M&Ms (cut in half) or red sours (cut in half).