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

Circus Animal Cookie Ice Cream

Are you as tempted by Circus Animal Cookies as I am?

I was grocery shopping and saw a package of 

these pretty pink and white critters.  I usually don't buy

them because I can't leave them alone, but we were

going to Lake Powell and the kids do like a lot of treats.

Then I got inspiration to try the Circus Animal Cookies out

in a batch of ice cream, so I surreptitiously hid them in 

the back of the pantry so they wouldn't be consumed.

It turned out to be a great ice cream flavor.

As a matter of fact, most of it had been eaten out

of the freezer before it was time for dessert, so I

was lucky to get any photos.

Circus Animal Cookie Ice Cream

(This recipe has been sized for a 2 Qt. ice cream maker, double it if you want more.)

1 1/4 C. white sugar

equivalent of 4 pasteurized eggs (Egg Beaters)

1/2 C. marshmallow cream

2 C. heavy whipping Cream

1 C. milk

2 C. crushed Mother's Circus Animal Cookies

red food coloring

additional Circus Animal Cookies

In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar, Egg Beaters and marshmallow

cream on low.  Then stir in the whipping cream and milk.  Add a few

drops of red food coloring to make it pink if desired. 

Place the cream mixture in your ice cream freezer container.  

I love the Cuisinart 2 Quart Ice Cream freezer because it is big

enough to really get the ice cream frozen.

When ice cream is almost frozen, sprinkle in half of the crushed cookies.

Let the ice cream freezer mix them in.  When it is frozen as hard as

the freezer can make it, remove the paddle and hand stir the remaining

cookies into the frozen ice cream, being sure to stir all the way to 

the bottom.  Add additional crushed cookies if desired.

Place the ice cream in the freezer several hours until solid.

Garnish with additional cookies.