Fun Monkey Cake Pop Toppers For Parties

Sock Monkey Cake Pops

My daughter recently turned 10. Her request was a monkey party. After looking at invitations online and in local stores most of the invitations we found were more for younger kids or infants than for a tween. So we came up with the idea to make a “Sock Monkey” party.

Immediately I knew I had to make Sock Monkey Pops! I have to admit I was a little stumped as to what I was going to do. I did a quick search on the internet to get inspiration and I found this seller on Etsy “Mom’s Killer Cakes” and fell in love with her Sock Monkey Pops. I made these ones but if you don’t want to make your own (instructions below) guess what? You can order directly from her! I made my monkeys happy with a red smile instead of the big red lips but either way I think they look super cute!

I wanted to do Sock Monkey invitations as well I couldn’t find what I was looking for and didn’t have the time to make a custom order. So I went to Michaels Craft Store and bought plain cards, some monkey stickers and printed up my own monkey invitations.

Front of Invitation

Inside of invitation:

We ordered Sock Monkeys and the red and white straws from Discount Party Supplies.com

I decorated the table with the Monkeys and then the girls got to take them home.

Another idea which I had but we did not end up doing was to make Sock Monkeys. So in lieu of ordering Sock Monkeys a fun project might be to make them at the party.

These vintage inspired paper straws add a fun festiveness to these pops. I just love these! They would also be great for Christmas Pops.

The hats are red Sixlet candies.

The first thing I did was to make my shapes using My Little Cupcake’s Ball Shaped Cake Pop Mold. Then I inserted the straws.

After they were all done I chilled the pops before I dipped in the next step.

I used large confetti dots for the ears.

Insert on each side of the head.

I put a small line of candy melts along the ears to give them a raised effect on the outside, so it would look more like a real ear.

Now dip entire head into your brown chocolate melts. I didn’t want to make the monkeys too dark so I added some white and yellow melts to the chocolate wafers to lighten up the color.