If you are looking for a truly Christmas themed treat look no further than this Santa Suit Cookie Pop recipe! Using a classic sugar cookie recipe, a few embellishments and some of the most popular candy around you can create a unique and fun cookie pop perfect for classroom parties or special gifts. This recipe is labor intensive so not a quick and easy treat, but well worth the time spent creating it.
SANTA SUIT COOKIE POP
INGREDIENTS
(Yields approx 12 pops)
- 1 cup softened Butter
- 1 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 2 3/4 cup Flour
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 12 long Lollipop Stocks
GLAZE INGREDIENTS
- 2 cup Powdered Sugar
- 2 tbsp Milk
- 2 tbsp Corn Syrup
- Food coloring
ICING INGREDIENTS
- 1/2 cup softened Butter
- 1 tbsp Milk
- 2 cup Powdered Sugar
- Food Coloring
- DECORATIONS
- 12 Yellow Starbursts
DIRECTIONS
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add egg and vanilla and continue beating.
- Mix dry ingredients together and incorporate into wet mixture a litlle at a time.
- Press dough into pan, filling each about 3/4 full.
- Press stick into each cookie.
- Add additional dough on back as needed to cover stick.
- Bake in 400 oven 13 minutes or until lightly brown around edges.
- Let cookie sit in pan for about 5 minutes, then carefully run a knife around the edge of each pop to loosen.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- Mix powdered sugar corn syrup and milk to make glaze.
- Add red food coloring.
- Fill in face of pop in red glaze and allow to set at least 30 minutes.
- Add blue and yellow food coloring to make remaining glaze dark gray to black.
- Transfer part of this black glaze to the corner of a zipper bag and clip end to pipe edges of a belt.
- Allow to set for at least an 30 minutes.
- Fill in middle of belt with remaining glaze.
- Place Starburst in center as buckle.
- Allow to set for at least an hour.
- In a large bowl, cream the butter.
- Mix in the sugar one cup at a time.
- Beat in the milk mixing until fluffy.
- Transfer 1/8 of mixture to piping bag.
- Add red food coloring to remaining icing and mix until blended.
- Transfer icing to a piping bag.
- Refrigerate to firm.
- Pipe white at top of cookie pop to make collar
- Pipe a red ring around the rest of the cookie pop.
These beautiful Santa Suit Cookie Pops are a great special treat for your child’s classroom party this week! Pick up candy and cake pop sticks in fun holiday colors at your local craft supply store or large retailer and create these as individual treats for the students in his or her classroom.
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