Turkey Cake Pops

To make cake ball dough:
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine cake and buttercream together until smooth and dough-like. Roll into balls. Dip lollipop sticks about 1/2 inch into melted candy melts.

To make tails:
Open chocolate sandwich cookies and remove filling (reserve for use later). Use melted chocolate to glue candy corn feathers to one half of a sandwich cookie.

To make faces:
Roll chocolate cookie filling from each sandwich cookie to make 2 balls, squish into a flat round. Use melted chocolate to attach M&M eyes and chocolate-covered sunflower seed beak and wattle as shown. Chill until needed.

To assemble turkeys:
Dip chilled cake pop in melted chocolate candy coating; place on wax paper stick side up. When coating has set, use melted chocolate to glue tail and face in place.

Notes:
1. If cake ball dough cracks or feels dry when rolling, add more buttercream.
2. You can substitute 8 ounces of room temperature cream cheese in place of the buttercream.
3. Different brands of chocolate candy melts will melt down smoother than others. If needed, add 1/2 teaspoon shortening per 4 ounces of chocolate to make the melted candy smoother and easier to work with. The consistency should be smooth enough to fall off a spoon into a continuous ribbon.