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Sunshine Lollipops
Prep Time
45 mins
Cook Time
2 mins
Chill Time
5 mins
 

Dip round cookies into yellow candy melts and use them to create cute sunshine pops.

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: candy melts, cookies, lollipops
Servings: 12
Calories: 220 kcal
Author: Beth Klosterboer
Ingredients
  • 12 ounces yellow candy melts
  • 12 small round cookies
  • 24 candy eyes
  • black food coloring marker
Instructions
  1. Melt the candy melts in the microwave for 30-second bursts of high power, stirring after each, until melted.
  2. Pour some of your melted yellow candy melts into a squeeze bottle fitted with a small round pastry tip (or use a disposable pastry bag, or a zip-top bag with one tip snipped off.)
  3. Pipe a circle the same size as your cookie onto your parchment paper. Set a craft stick onto the piped circle.
  4. Pipe triangles all around the piped circle.
  5. Fill in the triangles with yellow candy melts. Repeat making 12 sunshine pops.
  6. Refrigerate for 5 minutes until the candy coating hardens.
  7. Pour your remaining yellow confectionery coating into a small bowl.
  8. Reheat in the microwave for 10-15 seconds, stirring until melted.
  9. Dip a cookie into the candy melts.
  10. Remove and allow the excess candy to drip off.
  11. Set the dipped cookie in the center of a sunshine pop.
  12. Immediately add two candy eyes.
  13. Repeat creating all 12 pops.
  14. Refrigerate for 5 minutes until the candy coating hardens.
  15. Remove the sunshine pops from the refrigerator and allow them to warm to room temperature, for about 15 minutes.
  16. Use a black food coloring marker to draw smiles on your sunshine lollipops. Add eyelashes if you like too!

  17. Pour any remaining yellow candy melts onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet and freeze for 5 minutes to harden. Use for another project.

Recipe Notes

I recommend making a few pops at a time and then refrigerating them so that the yellow candy coating doesn't get splotchy, streaky, or spotty:)

Storage

Store your Sunshine Lollipops in an airtight container for up to a month. You can package them in clear cellophane bags to give out as gifts or party favors.