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Alligator Cookie Pops

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.

12 ServingsPrep: 1 hour + standing

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

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Alligator Cookie Pops (continued)

Directions (continued)

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.

Nutrition 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.