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

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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.

Candy Corn Pop Critters

Beaulah is cackling with glee over her

 Candy Corn Brownie Pops

that we whipped up for a family dinner.  

I am sure you know those little grocery store cookbooks that try

to jump in the cart as you are checking out and last year

we had purchased one entitled

  Halloween Food, Fun & Crafts

by Best Recipes.

These cute little guys caught our sweet tooth attention and so

we had some fun trying to make ours as cute as they

were in the magazine.  We failed, but since we aren't going

to show you their's, these will be cute enough.

We started by making our favorite brownies and forming

them into a triangle on a stick.  Pop those in the fridge

for about 20 minutes.  Just before pulling them out of

the fridge melt some candy melts on the microwave

for 30 seconds, stir and then melt for another 30 seconds

if needed.  Dip the stick into the melted candy and insert

the stick into the shaped brownie.

Replace the pan of pops in the fridge while you melt

the three colors of candy melts for the candy corn pops.

After melting,we placed the melted candy into these small deep dishes as

you want to be able to dip the pop completely.

Start with the yellow and completely coat the pop.  

Stand the pop upright in a piece of styrofoam until the coating

solidifies.  When it is solid, dip the pop 2/3 of the way into

the orange candy.  Again place it in styrofoam and let it

become solid.  Finish with the white.

Now here is something we learned - the pop needs to be wider

at the bottom and tiny at the top as that top is going to end

up with 3 layers of candy coating on it, so ours turned out

more oblong than theirs.

Meanwhile, heat some orange and yellow chewy candies

like Starburst or Laffy Taffy in the microwave a few

seconds.  Shape the eyes and nose.  Use a tweezer to

dip the eyes in a little melted candy coating and place

on the face.  They are tiny little things and will love to

roll away from you.  

Place dots on the eyes and shape the crazy smiles

with a little melted black candy coating.  The recipe

suggests black piping gel but that is way too runny

and will make a mess of your cute little faces.

(They look like something on Sesame Street!)

Even though his shape is a little on the long side,

we still loved them and Beaulah was proud as punch

at her creations.  We stuck a little floral foam in pewter

goblets and topped them off with candy for a holiday

presentation.

Spooky Pops and A Winner

Some of Beaulah's friends came

over to visit today.

We thought we would have a little

fun with them and played around

photographing them and then

messing with the photos to

make them look more scary than

they are in real life.

The grandkids really had fun with them!

Num, num, munch, munch!

SCREAMMMMMM!!!!

Sorry guys, but you are just so tasty.

Beaulah,

you are such a great kitchen witch!

For the recipe click here.

THANKS FOR VISITING BEAULAH'S

BEWITCHIN' KITCHEN 

TODAY.

Beaulah would also like to announce the

winner of her Glitterville Halloween Stacking

Cake Platter  -

it is Grammy Goodwill

(named because she is a Grammy and she

loves to shop at Goodwill!)

She is one of our new followers.  

Go visit her fun blog.  She is having

a lot of fun blogging since retiring

and would love to

have you come visit!

Thanks for everyone who participated.

We will be visiting

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Beaulah Loves Football - Go Team Cookie Pops

First let me remind you that there are

only a few days left to join in on my

GIVEAWAY

for a beautiful

hammered copper soup pot

from

Williams Sonoma.

Click here to go to the post where you can enter.

Now, what is Beaulah up to ....

This may surprise you, but 

Beaulah loves football. 

 She thinks we ought to 

change it up a little though and get

some broomsticks like Harry Potter

does in quiditch!

Football pops are quite the hit with

the football players.

My daughter wanted to make these

for her husband's last football game.

The guys on the team are always

 begging for her to make cake or cookie pops.

She thought football shaped ones would be fun.

 Beaulah thought we should make them

in Halloween colors, but we decided

for a traditional brown football.

 Put them on a stick and they are fun to

display, or dip them like truffles

Everyone around here really likes

the little pops on a stick better.

Now here is the tricky sticky part.

We had to send Beaulah out of the room

because she kept cackling at the funny

shaped footballs, but here's some help:

1.  Roll them into a ball

2.  Then roll them slightly to elongate

3.  Just gently touch, touch, touch to shape the points

(they won't be perfect) - don't try to pinch the ends,

they are too soft and you don't want hard points.

4.  Put them in the fridge to let them harden up

5.  Now reshape them a little

6.  When you dip them, they come out smooth

and more like a football.

Then finish them off with the white

chocolate coating for the

stitching and laces. 

They were a lot easier on a stick

when it came to putting on the white

chocolate.

Cookie Pop Recipe

1 pkg. Oreo cookies

8 oz. cream cheese

or 1 tub ready made cream cheese frosting

Milk and white chocolate coating discs

Blend the cookies until fine crumbs in a food

processor.  Mix in the cream cheese or frosting

by hand.  If you use the cream cheese, be sure and

refrigerate the finished pops.

Meanwhile melt the coating discs.  I place

between one and two cups in a microwaveable

bowl (make sure it is a microwaveable bowl or

you may scorch your chocolate discs).  Turn

the microwave on for one minute.  Stir - WHETHER

IT LOOKS LIKE IT NEEDS TO BE STIRRED OR NOT.

This will prevent the bottom from scorching.  Then

melt in 15 second increments until all the discs

are melted.  Let the discs cool about 10-15 minutes.

While dipping, reheat for about 10 seconds as

necessary to keep the chocolate thin and smooth.

Shape into footballs and place in fridge for about

half an hour or until firm.  Reshape as needed.

Take only a few out at a time as they will soften

quickly and place on a stick.  Dip in the milke

chocolate, shake slightly to remove excess, twirl

a little to make sure it is smooth and not

dripping. 

HERE IS THE BIG TRICK -

STICK UPRIGHT IN A PIECE OF FOAM!!!

(Like shown in picture above)

I have seen so many people try these

and they turn out a mess because they

are trying to sit them down before

they are dry.  Let them dry upright

in the foam. (Or Beaulah will be cackling

at you too!)

Finish with the white chocolate piped

on with a very small tip.  Make sure the

white chocolate has cooled a little so it

isn't just dripping out the end.

Make some for your 

favorite team!

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Snowball Cookie Pops

I love the look when the snow has freshly fallen, thickly

blanketing everything in sight.  That white on white effect

out on the back deck was just gorgeous.

White on white is lovely for a dessert too and

what better dessert than an individual cookie

pop dusted with sparkly white snow apparel

and a hidden chocolate center.

These Snowball Cookie Pops were dressed all in

white for a winter wedding.

I stacked two styrofoam cake rounds and held them

together with bamboo skewers, then edged them with a

wide white satin ribbon held on with pearl topped straight

pins.  The front was decorated with a silver frosted

floral to give it an elegant look.

The bride wanted an all white dessert table.

Three different candy decor were used to create the snowball

effect and the tops of

the styrofoam rounds were also dusted with sparkling

snowflakes to create the look of fresh fallen snow.

Cookie Pop Recipe

(Adapted from Picky Palate who adapted hers from Bakerella.)

1 pkg. Oreo Sandwich Cookies

1 container Betty Crocker Cream Cheese Frosting

White chocolate coating

Candy sprinkles in desired colors

Blend the entire package of Oreos in the food processor until

evenly fine.  Mix the frosting mix in by hand until well blended.

I like to use a pair of latex gloves while I do this.

Form the cookie mix into balls and place on a

parchment lined cookie pan.  Place in the fridge

until set.  (This should make about 50.)

Melt the white chocolate coating.  I melt mine in a

microwave safe bowl.  Melt for 1 minute, stir whether it

looks like it needs it or not, or it will scorch on the bottom.

Melt one minute more and stir.  If it needs more time,

melt at no more than 30 second intervals, always

stirring in between.  ( I have been dipping chocolates

for 30 years now and have had great success with

the microwave as long as you don't forget to stir.)

Remove cookie balls from fridge - don't remove

all at a time or they will get too soft and fall off the

stick as you dip them

.  Dip the end of a sucker stick in the white

chocolate coating. Stick it into the ball.  Let set up.

This should help it from falling off.  If they begin to

fall into the coating, put them back in the fridge to

harden up a little more.

Dip the ball into the white chocolate.  Hold over the

pop over the bowl and let drip for a minute, twirling

to remove excess.  Don't shake or it might fall off

into the bowl. 

Sprinkle any decorations on it while the chocolate is

still wet.  They will set up pretty quickly since the center

is cold.  If the chocolate

drips down the stick, wipe it off with your finger.

Stick the pops into a piece of styrofoam until they

set up hard and you can touch them.  (This is really

important to keep them beautiful.)  If you don't have

a piece of styrofoam handy, fill a large bowl with

several inches of sugar and stand them in the sugar

until they are set.

(You can also use an 8 oz. pkg. of cream cheese in

place of the frosting, but then you have to worry about

keeping them refrigerated.)

You can also dip them like a truffle without the stick.

The richness of the dark Oreo is perfectly complimented

by the white chocolate coating.

They turned out beautifully for the wedding.

We made over 250.  The servers continually refilled

the tiered display so that it stayed beautiful all night.

If you haven't given cake or cookie pops a try,

do it.  They are so elegant and fun. 

These little beauties are going to be "popping"

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