Ice Cream Cone Cake or Brownie Pops

Aren't these cake or brownie

pops just adorable?

My niece made some for her

wedding reception and we

fell in love with them and had to go

home and try some.

The miniature cones are made

by cutting off the tops!

Super simple and then you can

fill the cones with candy as

an added surprise.  

I decided to use brownies.

I just made up my favorite brownies

and added M&Ms.

When you make pops with 

brownies you don't even have to

add any frosting to the mix,

just shape the cooked brownies

into a ball.  The moistness of

the brownies hold them together.

Don't try to dip them as the

weight of the brownies plopped

the top right into the melted

candy melts.  

I just spooned the melted pink

candy melts onto the brownie,

tipping it to the side as I went

around.  Keep the candy melts nice

and runny to make a smooth coating.

Reheat when necessary.

Melt additional chocolate

candy melts and pipe it onto

the top of the cooled cone. 

Add sprinkles while the chocolate

is still wet.

Voila!  Talk about easy and adorable.

Add a cut off straw to the top if desired.

Here are pictures of the ones

she made.  These will give you

some more fun ideas.

Talk about fun and yummy too!

These little sundae ones are adorable.

You could make these with 

cake also.

Definitely an adorable way

to make pops for a party.

All White Cookie Pops - Christmas Circus Animal Pops or Truffles

My daughter called with a request for all white

desserts for her oldest daughter's baptism and our

first granddaughter to be baptized.  

Kylie is our oldest grandchild and she just

turned eight and is being baptized so I

decided to create a new cookie pop

as all of the kids (and the adults too) love

cookie pops for a party. 

How about Christmas Circus Animal Cookies?

They Christmas package have all white cookies,

no pinks allowed.  

We love Circus Animal Cookies and had made Circus Animal

ice cream with them this summer.  I had no idea they

would be so tasty in cookie pops.  I like them a lot better than

Oreo Pops.

Of course you could pick out the white ones from the regular bag

of circus animal cookies if you care about them being all white.

Usually I won't care if they are all white.

Christmas Circus Animal Cookie Pops Recipe

1 pkg Christmas Circus Animal Cookies

(all white cookies)

3/4 container Betty Crocker's Vanilla Frosting

3 C. melted white chocolate coating discs

sucker sticks

Crush the cookies in a food processor until they are

fine crumbs.  Stir in 3/4 of a contain of Betty Crocker's Vanilla

frosting.  The frosting should be well blended in.  Form into about 30

balls, placing them on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.

Place in fridge about 20 minutes or until the dough is stiff.

Melt the white chocolate coating in a microwave safe bowl at

30 second intervals, stirring in between whether it looks like it

has melted or not.  It will take about 3 times to melt completely.

Dip each sucker stick into a little of the chocolate and stick

into the balls.  Let that harden, then dip the balls into the

melted chocolate.  These were nice and firm and I didn't have

any problems with any of them falling off the sticks.  Decorate with

dusting sugar or other candy decor while wet.  Place in a block of

foam until the chocolate hardens or in a deep bowl of sugar.  The

sugar will hold the sticks in place until they harden.

They were really, really yummy.  I liked them better than Oreo

Cookie Pops.  They disappeared really quickly.

You could also omit the sticks and make them into truffles.

We will definitely make these again.  They received lots of oohs and aahs.

I also dipped White Chocolate Strawberries

and made

Browned Butter Brownies.  

My daughter made 

Eggnog Cupcakes and Almond Cookies.

All white desserts had a very pretty effect.

This would be fun for a shower or a wedding 

or any wintery event too.

She displayed a picture of Kylie outside of the

Mount Timpanogos Temple which she had taken

on a snowy day.

This is our newly baptized Kylie, the newest member

of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

(Members are baptized when they turn eight in our church -

the age of accountability or when they begin to understand right from

wrong.)

It was a beautiful day.  My daughter's husband is the

youngest of 10 and with our 5 children and all of

the family, they had 72 over to lunch afterwards.  That

was a houseful but there was plenty of food and fun.

I will be sharing this with

Foodie Friday

Seasonal Sunday

On The Menu Monday

Periwinkle's Birthday Party and Disco Dust Pops

Have you ever seen anything edible that is this pretty?

These were for little Adele's 3rd birthday party with her friends.

My daughter in law Audra made these and I walked in and

saw them and couldn't believe how gorgeous they are.

She just made regular Oreo Pops

and dipped them in pink candy coating and while

wet sprinkled on Disco Dust.  I had to order

some online.  These were just fabulously gorgeous.

Adele had just watched Tinkerbell's new movie

Secret of the Wings 

where Tinkerbell meets her twin, a winter fairy named

Periwinkle.

Well, Grandma found the only Periwinkle costume in

the state from what she could tell and surprised her

with this cute costume.

Adele looks amazingly like I did as a child.  It is magical to

watch her and wonder if that is how I acted and looked at the

same age that she is.

Yes, this is me around age 2.  We look a lot alike.