Halloween prep is super fun when you invite
your little gobblins to help decorate adorable cookies on sticks.
Halloween
Party Pops
- Cookies:
1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies
16 craft sticks (flat wooden sticks with round ends)
White Frosting:
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1 tablespoon butter or margarine, softened
Chocolate Frosting:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons unsweetened baking cocoa
1 to 2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon butter or margarine, softened
Assorted candies (gumdrops, candy corn and licorice)
- Freeze cookie dough 1
hour.
- Heat oven to 350°F.
Cut frozen dough into 16 (1/2-inch) slices; roll each into ball.
On ungreased cookie sheets, arrange balls in circle, 3 inches
apart and 2 inches from edges. Securely insert a craft stick
into each ball with end pointing toward center of cookie sheet.
- Bake 10 to 14 minutes
or until golden brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet
to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
- In small bowl, stir white
frosting ingredients until smooth. If necessary, add additional
milk 1 drop at a time for desired consistency.
- In another small bowl,
stir together all chocolate frosting ingredients except assorted
candies until smooth. If necessary, add additional milk 1 drop
at a time for desired consistency.
- Frost half of cookies
with white frosting; frost remaining cookies with chocolate frosting.
Arrange candies on frosted cookies to create jack-o'-lanterns,
cats, owls or ghosts.
Makes 16 cookie pops.
Tip: To make Black Cat
Cookie Pops, for each cookie, slice a large black gumdrop into
3 round pieces. Use small end for head; use largest piece for
body. Cut ears and tail from third piece. Frost cookie with orange
frosting. Arrange gumdrop pieces on frosted cookie to form cat.
High Altitude (3500-6500
ft): Bake 14 to 18 minutes.
NUTRITION INFORMATION PER
SERVING:
Serving Size: 1 Cookie Pop
Calories 210 Calories from Fat 70
% DAILY VALUE
Total Fat 8g 12%
Saturated 2 1/2g 12%
Trans Fat 1 1/2g
Cholesterol 15mg 5%
Sodium 90mg 4%
Total Carbohydrate 33g 11%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars 25g
Protein 1g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 0% Iron 2%
Exchanges: 1/2 Starch; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 1 1/2 Fat
Carbohydrate Choices: 2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Recipe and photograph provided
courtesy of Pillsbury and General Mills.
