After viewing Despicable Me, my kids became enamored with the minions, so I created these marshmallow pops for my daughter’s birthday. huge success among all. Cake pops can also be adorned in this manner.
| Prep Time: | 45 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 mins |
| Additional Time: | 2 hrs |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 50 mins |
| Servings: | 15 |
| Yield: | 15 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 cups chopped white chocolate
- 3 drops blue food coloring
- 1 (10 ounce) package large marshmallows
- 5 drops yellow food coloring
- 1 drop red food coloring
- lollipop sticks
- 30 candy eyeballs
- 1 (.75 ounce) tube black decorating gel
Instructions
- Place white chocolate in top of a double boiler over simmering water. Stir frequently, scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching, until chocolate is melted, about 5 minutes. Pour about 1/3 of the melted white chocolate into a separate bowl and color blue with a few drops of blue food coloring. Keep stirring chocolate so it does not get hard.
- Dunk the lower third of each marshmallow into the blue chocolate and place marshmallow onto plates with the blue chocolate side up.
- Mix yellow food coloring into the remaining white chocolate. Add a little bit of red food coloring to the yellow until you get the right shade of yellow for your minions.
- Stick cake pop sticks into the marshmallows on the blue side and dunk marshmallows into the yellow colored white chocolate up to the blue line. Stick marshmallow pops into a piece of styrofoam or a stale loaf of bread. Stick 1 or 2 eyes onto the yellow part of the marshmallow pops while chocolate is still wet and allow to dry, about 2 hours.
- Draw black glasses and a mouth onto the minion faces with the black decorating gel. Draw hair on top of the marshmallows if you like.
- When coloring the white chocolate yellow, start out with yellow food coloring, then add a tiny bit of red. You can always add more red food coloring later, but once you’ve colored it too orange you can’t go back.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 200 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 32 g |
| Cholesterol | 5 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 59 mg |
| Sugars | 26 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |