Ingredients

• 600g Coles bakery chocolate mud cake
• 3 cups white chocolate melts
• 1 cup Coles shredded coconut
• 1 cup hundreds and thousands
• 1 cup flaked almonds
• Silver cachous (optional)

Method

• Step 1 Line a large baking tray with non-stick baking paper. Roughly chop the mud cake and place in a large bowl. Use your hands to break it up until crumbled, then take tablespoonfuls of the mixture and roll firmly into balls. Put balls on a tray.
• Step 2 Place white melts in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water (make sure the base of the bowl doesn’t touch the water). Stir until chocolate has melted. Remove bowl from the pan.
• Step 3 Spread coconut, hundreds and thousands, and almonds on separate plates. Working one at a time, use 2 forks to dip a ball into the melted chocolate. Allow excess chocolate to drain back into the bowl before rolling the ball in coconut. Place on prepared tray to set. Repeat, coating a third of the balls in coconut, a third in hundreds and thousands, and a third in almonds.
• Step 4 Cut skewers in half, wrap with a ribbon and gently insert one halfway into each ball to act as a lollipop stick. To give the pops away as a gift, plant them in a small bowl of desiccated coconut and wrap in cellophane. You can also decorate some of the pops with silver cachous if you like.