For our wedding, friends and family made
all the cakes, puddings and desserts.
They were all supremely good.
And we had too much.
But two nights before the wedding
I was worried we wouldn’t have enough.
So I wanted to bake.
Someone suggested making cake pops.
One glance at the recipes revealed that
it was not something that my
pre-wedding brain
could cope with.
So I decided to make ‘not cake pops’ instead.
Otherwise known as biscuit and marshmallow pops.
I made them for the kids –
but all the adults ate them first!
Though not before they got
a starring role in our wedding…
Yup… this is us doing our posed
‘we are signing the register’ picture…
(after having actually signed the register)
complete with biscuit and marshmallow pops!
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I’ve made a few more batches since…
that’s how easy they are to make
and how yummy they are to eat.
Here’s how to make your own:
(I take no responsibility for
how many you might eat!)
You’ll need:
Double-stuff Oreos (has to be the double stuff ones)
Marshmallows
Long lolly sticks (you can get these from Hobbycraft)
Melting candy (any colour; again you can get this from Hobbycraft)
Decoration (we used white chocolate stars and sprinkles)
A colander and a chopstick
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To make your Oreo biscuit pop…
1. Slowly start to melt your candy in a glass bowl inside a pot of hot water.
Keep the water below boiling point or it will burn the candy.
2. Take Oreo double stuff biscuit and insert stick carefully.
(It’s easier if you use a cocktail stick to
create a hole before inserting the stick.)
If the biscuit halves separate then simply use
some melted candy to glue them back together.
3. Place the newly ‘stuck’ Oreos into your freezer for approx 10mins.
(This is pretty important or they fall apart when you dip them in the candy!)
4. Once Oreos are chilled and the candy is nice and runny,
it’s time to dip them. The best way to coat them is to use
a ‘dip and spin’ technique – as this removes any excess candy.
Use a chopstick to smooth the candy down and clean up the edges.
5. Now you need your colander.
Turn it upside down and use the holes to put the pop’s lolly stick in.
(This way, your pop can dry without getting stuck to another pop.)
6. Before the candy dries, add your stars or decoration.
7. Try not to eat immediately. If you can.
(Of course, you do need to sample some
for quality control so that’s allowed!)
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To make your marshmallow pop…
1. Insert the sticks into the marshmallows.
2. Dip into the candy, using the same ‘dip and spin’ technique.
3. Place in the colander and then decorate.
4. Leave to set.
5. And then eat as many as you can…
before everyone else does!
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P.S. For a handy paper version of this ‘how to’
get yourself a copy of the Hannah Zakari zine
as they kindly featured my ‘not cake pops’ there.
P.P.S. This is my first post on grown-up wordpress.
Do let me know if anything glitchy,
I feel like a blogging newbie again!
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Image 1: Lillian and Leonard at our wedding
Image 3: snapped by my uncle
All other images: by me.
I spy some Blook Club pops. 😉
I can say first hand these were tasty good. Oreos are my very favourite, and the coating stuff was SO GOOD.
Just me doing a wee comments test!
That looks so good!! Might try that sometime 🙂 and i can’t see the pic of you at your wedding 🙁 maybe is cause I’m on the tablet? I’ll try on my computer later 🙂
Ahh….that looks way easier than my attempt to make Cake Pops this Christmas. I had the genius idea at 10 o’clock at night. It was messy and everything kept falling apart. Stressful, much?
Next time I will remember the colander trick and putting them back in the freezer with the stick inserted. Might be less messy.
And welcome to grown up WordPress!
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Wow, they look amazing! I’ve always fancied trying cake pops but have never got round to it (because I am lazy), so this is a nice alternative x
These look amazing and easy enough that I will not make a total mess of it–hoorah!
These look really cute!
Feedback on grown-up wordpress….
In google reader I couldn’t see your signing the register picture, and the picture of the biscuit pops in the jar and the picture of the plain oreos are absoutely massive!
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Honestly, those look much more appealing to me than actual cake pops. I never really understood the cake pop phenomenon–they look cute, but they look like they would taste horrible. I am, however, totally all about marshmallows on sticks. And oreos? Hello.
Look how pretty you are 🙂 Congrats on your wedding!
YUM! I would like to have one of those cookies now!
Some of the photos showed up a bit distorted/stretched for me, but I got the general idea. 🙂
Theses look so great – I have now made cake pops twice a they are SO much work and incredibly messy – I also wasted so much pink dyed white chocolate..
theses look great – want to play making tarts on sticks this year!
These look so good! I’ll definitely be trying these 🙂
I might have eaten a whole packet of oreos last night!
These look scrumptious. Can’t believe I missed out on them at blookclub and at your wedding.
You’ve just given me major Oreo cravings.
Yum. You look gorgeous by the way!
♥ sécia
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