Alligator Cookie Pops

Name: Alligator Cookie Pops
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 12 Nutter Butter cookies; 397 grams package green Wilton candy melts; 14 lollipop sticks; 12 circus peanut candies; 79 milliliters white baking chips, melted; 79 milliliters semisweet chocolate chips, melted

This gluten free and fodmap friendly recipe serves 12. One portion of this dish contains approximately 8g of protein, 16g of fat, and a total of 242 calories. A mixture of baking chips, circus peanut candies, lollipop sticks, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour.

Instructions

Cut a slit in each circus peanut, forming a mouth. Using two lollipop sticks, prop mouths open.

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Peanuts

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Lollipop Sticks

Let stand for 30 minutes.

In a microwave, melt candy melts; stir until smooth. Twist apart cookies. Dip the end of a lollipop stick into melted coating and place on a cookie half; replace cookie top. Repeat.

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Candy Melts

Dip

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Lollipop Sticks

Microwave

Place pops on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet; refrigerate for 10 minutes or until set.

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Baking Sheet

Meanwhile, dip a circus peanut in coating and allow excess to drip off.

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Peanuts

Dip

Place on waxed paper. Repeat with remaining circus peanuts; let stand until set.

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Circus Peanuts

Reheat candy melts if necessary; dip a cookie pop in coating and allow excess to drip off. Insert stick into a styrofoam block to stand. While wet, position a coated circus peanut on the cookie for a head. Repeat.

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Candy Melts

Peanuts

Pop

For eyes, attach a miniature chocolate chip to each chocolate chip using melted white chips. Attach to head using melted chocolate. Using remaining melted chocolate, pipe nostrils onto faces; pipe teeth with melted white chips.

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Chocolate