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White-as-a-Ghost Cookie Pops

Source of Recipe

Janey


Recipe Introduction

Crispy rice treats shaped into ghostly figures and coated in white make for spooky but tasty Halloween cookies

List of Ingredients

White-as-a-Ghost Cookie Pops


6 Tablespoons butter
2 packages (10 oz) marshmallows
OR
4 cups tiny marshmallows
12 cups crisp rice cereal
24 oz vanilla-flavored candy coating
8 lollipop sticks
Small black candies
1 16-ounce can vanilla frosting
Green food coloring
2 cups shredded coconut


Recipe


Line a 13x9-inch baking pan and an 8- to 9-inch diameter mixing bowl with foil, extending foil over edges of pan and bowl.

Butter foil; set pan and bowl aside.

Melt butter in a 6-quart Dutch oven over low heat.

Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted.

Remove from heat.

Add cereal; stir until well-coated.

Divide mixture between prepared baking pan and mixing bowl and press evenly and firmly into pan and bowl.

Set cereal mixture aside to cool completely,about 1 hour.

Lift cereal mixture from baking pan with edges of foil.

Use a 3- to 4-inch ghost-shaped cookie cutter to cut out ghost shapes.

Insert lollipop sticks into ghost shapes through the bottom of cutouts.

In a medium saucepan melt candy coating over low heat.

Place ghosts on a slotted spatula and spoon candy coating over ghost shapes, turning carefully using sticks to coat both sides and letting excess candy coating drip back into the pan.

Carefully place ghosts on a sheet of waxed paper.

Decorate face with candies before coating sets up.

Let stand until coating is completely set, about 1 hour.

Stir together frosting and a few drops green food coloring; set aside.

Place coconut in a re-sealable plastic bag.

Add a few drops of green food coloring; seal bag.

Shake and knead bag lightly to tint coconut.

Lift cereal mixture from mixing bowl with edges of foil and invert onto a serving platter; remove foil.

Frost with the green frosting.

Sprinkle with coconut.

Insert lollipop sticks with ghost shapes into frosted cereal mixture.


NOTE:

After cutting ghost shapes out of the cereal mixture,
reserve your scraps for more fun shapes. Try rolling
some scraps into balls and dip balls into melted vanilla-
or chocolate-flavored candy coating. Sprinkle with
desired candy decorations and let set on waxed paper.


Prep Time: 50 mins
Total Time: 2 hrs 50 mins
Servings: 16 servings