instant espresso coffee powder or granules • water • super most triple chocolate fudge cake mix (or any kind of your fav cake mix) • 12oz. can whipped cream frosting (or your fav kind of frosting) • shortening (to thin out candy melts if used) • paper lollipop sticks • You can use candy melts, coating wafers or chocolate • sprinkles, candy, colored sugar, glitter cake gel, stencils, etc.. • You can even use mini cupcake liners and wrap some in candy wrappers to add variety, instead of using sticks :-)