Alligator Cookie Pops Recipe

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Our talented food styling team created these adorable cookie pops for the reptile lover in your family. They're easier to make than you think and use everyday ingredients.

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Alligator Cookie Pops Recipe

Prep: 1 hour + standing

Yield: 12 Servings

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Ingredients

12 circus peanut candies
14 lollipop sticks
1 package (14 ounces) green Wilton candy melts
12 Nutter Butter cookies
24 miniature semisweet chocolate chips (about 1/2 teaspoon)
24 semisweet chocolate chips (about 1 tablespoon)
1/3 cup white baking chips, melted
1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted

Directions

Cut a slit in each circus peanut, forming a mouth. Using two lollipop sticks, prop mouths open. Let stand for 30 minutes.
In a microwave, melt candy melts; stir until smooth. Twist apart cookies. Dip the end of a lollipop stick into melted coating and place on a cookie half; replace cookie top. Repeat. Place pops on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet; refrigerate for 10 minutes or until set.
Meanwhile, dip a circus peanut in coating and allow excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper. Repeat with remaining circus peanuts; let stand until set.
Reheat candy melts if necessary; dip a cookie pop in coating and allow excess to drip off. Insert stick into a styrofoam block to stand. While wet, position a coated circus peanut on the cookie for a head. Repeat.
For eyes, attach a miniature chocolate chip to each chocolate chip using melted white chips. Attach to head using melted chocolate. Using remaining melted chocolate, pipe nostrils onto faces; pipe teeth with melted white chips. Let stand until set. Yield: 1 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie pop equals 326 calories, 16 g fat (12 g saturated fat), 2 mg cholesterol, 95 mg sodium, 45 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Alligator Cookie Pops in Kids Party Food/Good Food for Kids 2012 , p93