snow pops

With lot of white stuff all over the Frigid Tundra, my sweet tooth not look like it`s taking a winter wear and Christmas all but about the corner, I though a rebroadcast of the snow pop post was in order! Especially since I`m spending every ounce of day today photographing Atlanta folk and won`t be capable to look to my blog at all. Or to my children, but all 5 of them have a really fun day before with Daddy!

I design to give red and green snow pops for Christmas this class and my husband really wants to take some for Big Mac`s birthday in place of a cake. Want to whip some up yourself? Here`s how!

As many of you faithful readers know, I am not lots of a baker. But I am adept at other things. Like crafting cliffhangers for my blog, decorating with aqua and making children. But I digress. I`m not a baker. This is the point.

I do, however, love to appear at baked goodies (and eat them, of course). When my good friend Alyssa had us all over recently, and she was making adorable treats that she discovered here, I was beyond inspired.

So, I adapted her recipe and have exhausted the final few days perfecting_snow pops.

Fun. Adorable. Delicious. (Relatively) Easy. Eye Candy. Make Them. Now.

Here`s how I made mine:

First, I baked a chocolate cake, following the directions on the box (No, I am not advertisement for anyone in this post. These are only the things I bought at Walmart to take my snow pops!).

After I baked it, I hunked up the bar and shredded the pieces in my food processor until the bar looked like this:

I ate a small bit of it. Just to make certain it was alright to eat and wasn`t a bad nut like Veruca Salt on Willy Wonka. It wasn`t.

Then, I made up a lot of cream cheese frosting. Remember when I posted that recipe here? In typeface you don`t, here it is again. Combine:

8 oz. package cream cheese, softened

6 T. butter, softened

1 t. vanilla

1T. cream (or milk)

3 cups powdered sugar

I added the cream cheese frosting, a half cup at a time, to the cake crumbles (until all the coat was moistened with the ice and was moldable like dough), combining well with a spatula. But of line you can use a spoon. Or your marginal hands. A little more than a cup of frosting worked easily for me.

Actually, I added a bit too much, so to start the frosting heavy mixture, I added almost a half cup of rolled oats. But hopefully you won`t do that and won`t want to add the oats. Unless you want to, of course. I quite like how mine turned out with them.

I formed the bar mixture into balls, put them on a home and refrigerated them.

While they were chilling, I opened five bags of white chocolate melt-a-ways. Regular chocolate and candy melts would also work fine.

My husband was cooking venison in the kitchen and he helped me break the individually wrapped white chocolates.

They looked like slabs of butter when they were unwrapped. Small Fry thought they were "cheeses." I melted mugs full of the chocolates on average power in the microwave. Of line you could use a double boiler. I don`t get one. Remember? I don`t bake.

After they were liquid and I touched them up, I added a few drops of food colouring to each mug.

Turquoise and raspberry, of course. (Edited in 2010 to add: Last year, these were a sweet hint around the expectant news we were around to announce. Remember?)

Small Fry thought it was hummus and she "wanted some." I obliged and let all the kids have some apples wedges and a small roll of the melted delight to dip them into. They were in heaven and left me only to act on the snow pops for at least 15 more minutes.

Next, I stuck long, wooden dowels into the chilled balls. One by one, I dipped them into the melted candy.

Rotate.

Rotate.

Then, I put sprinkles all over the snow pops quickly before the candy started to harden. Adorable!

The pick up would give to await until later, for I had snow pop arranging to do!

And what better position to photograph snow pops_

_than in the snow!

Go forward and make some_and enjoy! They are really quite tasty and go over well with anyone under age 20. And likewise with the over 20 crowd.