Best Monster Pops Recipes

CHOCOLATE CHIP MONSTER POPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease a large cookie sheet.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar together. Add eggs and vanilla; mix until smooth. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until well blended. Mix in the chocolate chips.
• Using a 1/3 cup measuring cup, drop cookies onto the cookie sheet. Be sure cookies are at least 2 inches apart. Insert a popsicle stick into each cookie, and bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool for 2 to 3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

MONSTER CAKE POPS

Steps:

• Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan, using water, oil and eggs. Cool. Line cookie sheet with waxed paper. Crumble cake into large bowl. Add frosting; mix well. Shape into 1-inch balls; place on cookie sheet. Freeze until firm; refrigerate.
• In microwavable bowl, microwave blue candy melts and shortening uncovered on Medium (50%) 1 minute, then in 15-second intervals, until melted; stir until smooth. Dip tip of 1 lollipop stick about 1/2 inch into melted blue candy and insert stick into 1 cake ball no more than halfway. Repeat. Return to cookie sheet. Refrigerate 5 minutes. Remove from refrigerator a few at a time. Dip cake balls in melted blue candy; tap off excess. Poke opposite end of stick into foam block. Immediately attach 2 candy straw pieces to top of pop for antennae, holding in place until set. Let stand until set.
• Spoon melted purple candy into resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut off small corner of bag. Squeeze bag to pipe mouth and teeth onto cake pops. Use remaining melted candy to attach candy eyes to antennae.

SPOOKY MONSTER BROWNIE POPS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan with foil, leaving foil overhanging on 2 opposite sides of pan. Spray foil with cooking spray. Bake and cool brownie mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan.
• Place brownies in freezer 30 minutes. Remove brownies from pan, using foil to lift; peel foil from sides of brownies. Cut into 24 rectangular bars, 6 rows lengthwise by 4 rows across, each about 1 1/2 by 3 1/4 inches. Gently insert stick into end of each bar, foil from bars. Place on cookie sheet; freeze 30 minutes.
• In microwavable bowl, microwave candy coating uncovered on High about 1 minute or until smooth when stirred. Stir in food color. Spread on brownies. Insert 2 candies into sides of each brownie to look like ears. Place on waxed paper or foil to dry.
• To decorate, spoon frosting into small resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small hole in bottom corner of bag. Squeeze bag to pipe frosting on top of each brownie to look like hair. Draw eyebrows, eyes and zigzag mouth to look like Frankenstein face.

MONSTER POPS

Steps:

• To decorate
• Have the cake balls chilled and in the refrigerator.
• Melt the purple candy coating in a microwave-safe plastic bowl, following the instructions on the package. The coating should be about 3 inches deep for easier dipping. (I usually work with about 16 ounces of coating at a time.)
• When you are ready to dip, remove a few cake balls at a time from the refrigerator, keeping the rest chilled.
• One at a time, dip about 1/2 inch of the tip of a lollipop stick in the melted candy coating, and insert the stick straight into a cake ball, pushing it no more than halfway through. Dip the cake pop into the melted coating, and tap off any excess coating. Hold the pop over the bowl in one hand, and tap your wrist gently with your other hand. If you use the hand holding the cake pop to shake off excess coating, the force of the movement will be too strong and could cause the cake ball to loosen or fly off the lollipop stick. Tapping the wrist holding the cake pop absorbs some of the impact. The excess coating will fall off, but you will need to rotate the lollipop stick so the coating doesn't build up on one side, making it too heavy on that side. If too much coating starts to build up at the base of the stick, simply use your finger to wipe it off, spinning the lollipop stick at the same time. This can happen if the coating is too thin or too hot. It's not as hard as it sounds; it just takes a little practice.
• Let dry in a Styrofoam block.
• Pour the remaining purple coating into a large squeeze bottle, and pipe random, drizzled lines all around the monster head. Let dry completely in the Styrofoam block.
• On some of the pops, pipe two small white circles with a candy writer for the eyes, and insert 2 chocolate jimmies before the coating sets.
• On the remaining pops, pipe a single large, white circle. Let dry completely and draw a large blue circle inside the white circle, using a blue edible-ink pen. With a black edible-ink pen, outline the circle and draw a pupil to finish the eye.
• Let dry completely.
• Note:
• You can also use melted white candy coating for the eyes.

NO-BAKE MONSTER CEREAL POPS

Steps:

• Spray 30 mini muffin cups with cooking spray.
• In large microwavable bowl, microwave butter and marshmallows uncovered on High about 2 minutes, stirring after each minute, until mixture is smooth. Stir in cereal until evenly coated. Spoon mixture by heaping tablespoonfuls into muffin cups. Insert paper lollipop stick into each cup, forming cereal mixture around stick.
• Refrigerate at least 1 hour or until cereal mixture is completely set. Carefully remove pops from muffin cups.
• Dip and decorate half of the pops at a time: In 1-quart microwavable bowl, microwave 12 oz of the candy coating uncovered on High 1 minute 30 seconds; stir. Continue microwaving and stirring in 15-second increments until melted; stir until smooth. Color melted candy coating with liquid food color of choice. Dip part of each cereal treat pop into melted candy coating to partially cover with coating. Immediately sprinkle with candy sprinkles. Place on waxed paper-lined cookie sheet. Melt remaining candy coating; color as desired. Dip remaining pops, and sprinkle with candy sprinkles. Allow to set until candy coating is completely hard, about 1 hour.
• Use remaining candy coating to attach 1 or 2 candy eyes to each pop.

SILLY MONSTER COOKIE POPS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, stir cookie mix, butter and egg until soft dough forms. Shape dough into 1 1/2-inch balls. On ungreased cookie sheet, place balls 2 inches apart. Flatten slightly. Insert craft stick halfway into each dough ball.
• Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely.
• Attach star tip to each tube of icing; frost cookies. Attach candy corn and candy eyes as desired. Attach plain tip to each tube of icing; pipe mouths and teeth on cookies as desired.

MONSTER POPS

Steps:

• PREHEAT oven to 325° F.
• COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels, oats and raisins. Drop dough by level 1/4 cup measure 3 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Shape into round mounds. Insert wooden stick into side of each mound.
• BAKE for 14 to 18 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets on wire racks for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
• DECORATE pops as desired. Use frosting and colored candies: WONKA® RUNTS® and/or NERDS®.
• For those on the go, 2 pkg. (16.5 oz. each), NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough can be substituted for the first nine ingredients, adding 1 cup quick or old-fashioned oats and 1/2 cup raisins to the dough. Bake as stated above for 16 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Makes 18 cookies.