Is it a cookie? Is it a lollipop? It’s a Fun Face Cookie Pop! My kids loved these, both making them and eating them. We’ve been making these candy studded spice cookie pops every Fall since 1998 (unfortunately I don’t remember where I originally found the recipe). One of the great things about this cookie is the kids see this as a lollipop. Get it? If it’s a cookie, they want two or three. If it’s a lollipop, they think one is enough! (and with all the candy on each pop/cookie, one is enough). Make these with your kids for a Halloween party (I’ve served several consecutive life sentences as a Room Mother and often took these as treats for a party) or make them after Halloween with some of their Halloween candy. Fun Face Cookie-pops are a great lunch box treat for that week after Halloween!
A few hints about this recipe. One, the dough is extremely soft, so be sure to allow enough time, at least an hour and up to overnight, for the dough to chill in the refrigerator. Two, the cookies spread a lot, so leave enough space between each pop on the cookie sheet (as you can see by some of the pictures, I did not leave enough space). Three, be sure to bake the cookies long enough. If you don’t the cookie will be too soft and will drop off the popsicle stick. Four, M&Ms, chocolate chips (and butterscotch, peanut butter, and cinnamon chips, too–vanilla chips brown unattractively), sprinkles and colored sugars are the most versatile candies for this project. Rolos, Hugs, Kisses and mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cups are a bit big but super yummy on the cookie. I have used candy corn to decorate these cookies, and it often melts into the cookie. Oh, and Five! Popsicle sticks are available at Michael’s or any another craft supply store. Be forewarned though! They don’t sell SMALL boxes! One purchase will equal a life-time supply and only set you back about three dollars 🙂
Have FUN with this recipe, it’s a GREAT kid-grownup cooking project!
Polly’s Fun Face Cookie Pops
½ cup butter
½ cupsugar
1 teaspoon ground ginger
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ cup molasses
1 egg
2 cups flour
Beat butter for 30 seconds. Add in sugar and spices. Beat in molasses, baking soda and egg. Stir in flour.
Refrigerate dough for at least an hour, up to overnight.
Divide dough into 16 equal pieces, about 1 oz. each.
Roll each piece of dough into a ball. Stick a popsicle stick into the middle of each ball. Flatten each ball with the palm of your hand.
Decorate cookies, making faces, with m&ms, nuts, chips, sprinkles, colored sugars, Rolos, Hersheys Hugs or Kisses, mini Reeses peanut butter cups, etc.
Bake in preheated 350º oven for 12-13 minutes.
Let cookies cool on tray for 2 minutes then remove to rack to cool completely.
Thanks for stopping by my kitchen today. Here’s a picture of my Grandson, Zade, decorating his first Fun Face Cookie Pops on his second birthday! He ate the peanut butter cups, and some of the M&M’s, and his Mom did the decorating. He is not, alas, a cookie decorating genius just yet!