If you are looking for a fun and easy recipe to do with the kids, try these deliciously simple St. Patrick's Day Cookie Pops. The kids will smile and giggle while making these treats, and will have something fun to give to family, friends, and classmates! What you will need:
Ingredients:
20 vanilla wafer cookies
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 12-ounce bag white chocolate chips
green and yellow gumdrops
green Dots
green and yellow Nerd candies
Cake decorating writer gel in green, yellow, red, orange, and
black
1 tube of green cake decorator frosting with tip
green and yellow decorator sugar
green food coloring
ice cream or lollipop sticks
wax paper or paper plates
Instructions:
Spread peanut butter onto the flat side of the cookies. Place
an ice cream stick into the peanut butter on half the cookies.
Top with another cookie so the stick is sandwiched between the
two cookies.Melt chocolate chips in the microwave, one minute,
then in 20 second increments, stirring until smooth. Before
melting, separate the white chips into two bowls. After
melting, add a few drops of green food coloring to one of the
bowls of white chips to make green chocolate.Dip cookie pops in
the melted chips, covering completely. Sprinkle with green and
yellow sugar, and place or stand on waxed paper or paper
plates. Put in refrigerator to chill.
Fun Variations
Leprechaun
After coating with white chocolate, dip top of pop into green
sugar. Slice two yellow gumdrops to make beard. Allow to dry on
wax paper. Use black and red decorator gel for eyes and mouth,
and for trim on hat.
Rainbow with Pot of Gold
After coating with white chocolate, cut a green Dot in half
lengthwise, adhere to chocolate. Before chocolate has a chance
to dry, place 3-5 yellow candy Nerds "in" pot. Create a rainbow
with various colored decorator gel.
Shamrock
After coating with white chocolate, sprinkle with yellow
decorator sugar, then draw on a shamrock using green cake
decorator icing.
Four Leaf Clover
After coating with green chocolate, use green sliced gumdrops
to create clover leaves. Slice a small strip out of remaining
gumdrop for stem. Use a green candy Nerd for the center of the
clover.Note: Another variation is to use vanilla or chocolate
frosting instead of peanut butter for the filling.These can
also be made without sticks. Use one stick to be able to dip
the cookies in chocolate and roll in sprinkles, then remove the
stick and put on wax paper or paper plates, then chill.
About the author:
Amanda Formaro is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four
children. She and her husband live in sunny Nevada with a
houseful of kids, dogs and cats. They enjoy traveling in the
RV, swimming and riding their four wheelers. While Amanda's
professional background was originally in finance, she chose to
stay home to raise her family after her third child was born.
Amanda enjoys tole painting, crafting with her kids, walking
her dogs and working on her website,
FamilyCorner.com.
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