Polar Bear Cake Pops

So I made the polar bear cake pops yesterday.  they are not perfect but I am satisfied with them.  Of course they don't look as good as those at the Gaylord but then I am not a professional baker so not bad.

Mine

Gaylord National's

As usual I forgot to take photos during the entire process.  I will detial the process here though.

1. Bake a box cake as directed. 
2. One the cakes have been baked and completely cooled, in a large bowl, crumb them into fine crumbs.  
3. Add canned frosting a table spoon at a time until the cake can be made into small balls.  Caution on this step, don't use to much frosting, I think I used 2 1/2 tablespoons maybe less.  If you get to much frosting the pops will not stay on the sticks and will not taste very good.
4. Chill the cake balls for abut 30 minutes, just long enough for them to set up a bit.  Now the fun begins.
5. Coat one piece on about half way down and then stick on top of pop to form and ear, then do the same with a second candy and place it in line but a little distance from the second on to form the second ear. (I used white coated candy buttons to make the ears and snout.)
6. Dip another candy in chocolate on the back and place in down from the ears but equal distance apart from the ears.  This will be the snout.
7. Take a lollie pop stick and stick the end in melted chocolate and place this in between the ears. 

A tip on the chocolate for these steps don't thin the chocolate.  It will be a little thick but this helps these items to stay in place.  

8.  Let all the pops sit a few minutes to set the chocolate so that the stick don't fall out and ears and         snout do't fall off as you dip them.
9.  Now you can thin the chocolate with Paramount Crystals ( I thinned my quite a bit as I wanted             the chocolate to run easily.
10. Dip each pop in the chocolate and let excessive chocolate drip off.  If you don't like the coverage        or it seems a little thin let the chocolate drip a minute or two and then re-dip. 
11.  After the pop has finished dripping, set the pop on parchment paper on a tray and let dry. 

12.  Once these have dried, you can add eyes and the end of the snout. 
For the eyes I used a bamboo skewer and dipped the blunt end into some milk chocolate and placed for one eye.  I re-dipped for each eye. 
For the snout, I used the same bamboo stick and made swirling motion almost forming a heart.   
​I did originally try pipping it on but it was to gloppy so I didn't do that for others. 

You can see some of the pops did crack.  I am not sure why that was as I didn't freeze or chill after the initial chill to set the balls.  There were only a few that cracked so I will set those aside and not display those just have as extra's (don't worry they will taste just as good).

13.  Next I added the snowflakes and bows.  For this I poured chocolate on parchment paper right on        the counter.  I dipped each bow or snowflake into the chocolate and placed it on the pop. 
14.  You will want to hold it for just a few seconds to set it in place.  By this time you chocolate is                 starting to dry do it doesn't take very long. 

15.  The last thing to do, after they have dried completely, is to wrap and tie bows on the wrap. 

​This wasn't very hard but it was time consuming.  Make sure you have plenty of time to do this.  The results are worth it as they are so cute.