Mask Cookie Pops Recipes

MASK COOKIE POPS

Steps:

• In large bowl, beat butter, granulated sugar and almond paste with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in vanilla. On low speed, beat in flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt until blended. Divide dough in half; shape each half into a ball and flatten slightly. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate at least 1 hour.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Line cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper. On lightly floured surface, roll 1 portion of dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with 4x1-inch mask-shaped cookie cutter. On cookie sheets, place cutouts 1 inch apart; insert craft stick in bottom of each cutout. Repeat with remaining dough.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden. While warm, reshape or cut out eyes again, if necessary. Remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks; cool completely.
• Decorate cookies as desired with cookie icing, sparkling sugar and candy sprinkles. Let stand until set.

REINDEER MASK COOKIES

Steps:

• For the dough: Whisk together the flour, salt and baking soda in a medium bowl. Beat together the egg and vanilla in a small bowl.
• Beat the butter, granulated sugar and confectioners' sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed. Once incorporated, increase the speed to medium and beat until slightly creamy, about 3 minutes. Stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
• Reduce the speed to low again and slowly pour in the egg mixture; beat until combined. Add the flour mixture, in 3 additions, increasing the speed as the dough gets thicker to keep the beaters spinning. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and the beaters as needed. Once all the flour is just incorporated, increase the speed to medium-high and beat until the dough is very smooth, about 5 minutes.
• Turn the dough out of the bowl and bring it together. Divide into 2 even pieces. Shape each piece into a flat square and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate the dough for at least 3 hours or overnight.
• To roll, cut and bake the cookies: Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Dust another sheet of parchment paper with flour and put 1 piece of the dough on top.
• Dust with more flour and top with another sheet of parchment. Roll the dough out between the parchment sheets into a square about 1/4-inch thick and place in the freezer for 5 minutes. Repeat with the remaining piece of dough.
• From 1 piece of rolled dough, cut out 8 cookies with a 2 1/2-inch cutter and 4 cookies with a 2 1/4-inch cutter. Make the masks by placing 2 of the larger cookies on the prepared baking sheet next to each other so they are barely touching. Place one of the wooden sticks in the middle of the cookies. Place one of the smaller cookies on top of the stick to secure the pieces together. Repeat with remaining cookies, placing each mask about 2 inches apart on the baking sheet. Refrigerate while you cut the remaining cookies. Reroll any scraps of dough and repeat the freezing, cutting and refrigerating process until all the dough is used.
• Bake, rotating the baking sheets front to back and bottom to top about halfway through, until golden brown around the edges, about 12 minutes. Let cool completely on the baking sheets set on a wire cooling rack, about 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, for the royal icing: Combine the confectioners' sugar and meringue powder in a large bowl. Add 4 tablespoons water and the vanilla and whip with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until the icing forms thick and glossy peaks, about 2 minutes (adding up to 1 tablespoon more water if needed). The white will be your muzzle, so it needs to be very stiff so that it holds a textured shape.
• Fit 3 pastry bags with a small tips - 2 with small round tips and 1 with a small closed star tip. Remove 1 cup of frosting and place in the piping bag with a small closed star tip.
• Put 1/4 cup of the remaining frosting into a small bowl. Add 12 drops of the dark brown food coloring and whisk until combined. This will be used to outline the cheeks and to draw the mouth, so it needs to be thick but not as stiff as the white. (The food coloring should be enough added liquid but add a drop of water if it is still too thick.)
• Add 7 to 9 drops of the light brown food coloring to the frosting still in the mixer. Add a few drops of water. Beat until combined and loose, adding more water if necessary. This will be the flood color for the cheeks, so it needs to be loose but not watery.
• Pipe a line of the dark brown icing around the outer edge of each cheek (the large cookies). This will be the rim that contains the light brown flood so make sure there are no gaps or holes. Repeat with remaining cookies. Once you have finished the edges of all the cookies, check to make sure the first cookie is dry. If not, wait 5 to 10 more minutes until the edges are dry. Then flood each of the cheeks with the light brown frosting. Allow the cookies to dry for 10 to 15 minutes before continuing to decorate (depending on how fast you are, this might be as long as it takes you to flood all the cookies). Once the cheeks are dry, fill the center circle with piped white swirls. Place a red gummy candy halve in the middle of each circle just above the center. Lastly, pipe a mouth onto your mask - starting at the candy nose, pipe a small line down that curves out into hooks in opposite directions. Repeat with remaining noses. Let the cookies dry completely before serving and wearing.

VANILLA 'BOX' CAKE POPS RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• In a large bowl, crumble the cake into fine uniform crumbs. Add the vanilla frosting and mix thoroughly.
• Press the cake mixture into an ice cube tray. Dip the lollipop sticks into 2 tablespoons of melted white chocolate, then stick them into the center of each cake pop inside the ice cube tray.
• Freeze for at least 2 hours or up to 8 hours.
• Use a butter knife or offset spatula to loosen the cake pops from the ice cube tray. Pull out the cake pops.
• Dip each cake pop in the remaining melted white chocolate. Decorate with sprinkles
• Enjoy!

COOKIE POPS ON A STICK!!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
• Combine butter or margarine, baking soda, white sugar and your favorite extract flavor. Beat these ingredients together with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add self-rising flour Beat well.
• Roll dough into walnut sized balls. Place them two inches apart onto the cookie sheet and flatten slightly. Press ice cream stick into the flattened side of the cookie, and press down. This way, you know how large the cookie will be when baked. Add whatever topping to each cookie you like, OR, before pressing stick into the cookie, roll each cookie into sprinkles first, then flatten.
• Bake until edges are lightly golden.

MRS. CLAUS COOKIE POPS

Steps:

• Insert a pop stick into the filling of each cookie; place on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet. To secure sticks, freeze until firm, about 15 minutes., In a microwave, melt pink candy coating with 3 cups white candy coating, stirring until well blended. Dip cookies in coating, allowing excess to drip off (reheat coating as necessary). Attach popcorn for buns in Mrs. Claus' hair; return to baking sheets. Freeze until set, about 30 minutes., Melt remaining white candy coating. Dip popcorn and tops of cookies in white coating for hair; swirl with a small spatula to make curls. Return to baking sheets., Transfer black icing to a pastry bag fitted with a small round pastry tip; pipe eyes and eyeglasses onto faces. Add decorations as desired, using melted coating to attach. Let stand at room temperature until set.

SIMPLE CAKE POPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Beat cake mix, water, eggs, and oil in a bowl using an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds. Increase speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes more. Pour batter into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 28 to 33 minutes. Cool completely, at least 1 hour.
• Crumble cake into a large bowl. Stir frosting into cake crumbles until mixture is sticky but not too smooth. Chill in refrigerator, at least 30 minutes.
• Roll cake mixture into 1 1/2-inch balls and arrange on a baking sheet. Place 1 lollipop stick into each ball.
• Melt about 1/4 cup chocolate candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl in the microwave, about 20 seconds. Dip each cake pop in the melted chocolate. Repeat melting chocolate and dipping remaining cake pops. Decorate pops with decorating icing.

STOP-AND-GO COOKIE POPS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, butter, egg and flour until soft dough forms.
• On floured surface, roll dough about 1/4 inch thick. Cut dough into 3x1-inch rectangles, using pastry wheel or knife. Insert 1 inch of wooden stick into a 1-inch side of each cookie. On ungreased cookie sheets, place cookies 2 inches apart.
• Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until edges are light borwn. Immediately press red, yellow and green candies into each cookie. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooking racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.

SURPRISE COOKIE POPS

Steps:

• Cut each candy bar widthwise into six pieces; insert a Popsicle stick into each. Cut cookie dough into 12 pieces. Flatten dough; wrap each piece around each candy bar piece, forming a ball. , Place 3 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 13-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool for 3 minutes before removing to wire racks.

QUICK CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE POPS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Transfer to a larger bowl if necessary. Stir in chocolate chips and pecans. , Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 3 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Insert a wooden stick into each cookie if desired. Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool for 1 minute before removing to wire racks.