St. Patrick’s Day Marshmallow Pops
Marshmallows on a stick covered with chocolate and decorated with Green and White candy melts – these St. Patrick’s Day Marshmallow Pops are delicious and easy to make.
Little known fact … at the end of the rainbow you’ll find a leprechaun’s pot of gold AND yummy St. Patrick’s Day Marshmallow Pops. Marshmallows and Chocolate are a super delicious dessert combination and these St. Patrick’s Day Marshmallow Pops will be sure to please on March 17th! And did we mention how easy they are to make? Your family will insist they become a St. Patrick’s Day tradition!
How to Prepare the Marshmallows
Step 1: Prepare the marshmallows before melting the chocolate. Marshmallows are like snowflakes … no two are the same, so you want to make sure you have like ones together. We sort through the bag of marshmallows and match them up in sets of threes.
Step 2: Place the first marshmallow on the lollipop stick.
Step 3: Add the second marshmallow, and adjust them on the lollipop stick.
Step 4: Add the third marshmallow but only press the marshmallow halfway down onto the stick. You do not want the stick to come out the top of the third marshmallow or the marshmallow will dry out.
How to Prepare the Chocolate
Step 5: Place the 1/2 cup of melting wafters on a microwave-safe dish or paper plate. (This amount of chocolate should be enough to cover four Marshmallow Pops.)
Step 6: Microwave the chocolate for 30 seconds, check it, and give it a stir.
Step 7: Continue to microwave the chocolate, 10 seconds at a time, Alternating between heating and stirring.
Step 8: Once the chocolate is almost completely melted, give it a final stir to make sure it is completely smooth.
How to Cover the Marshmallows in Chocolate
Step 9: Roll the marshmallows on the stick in the melted chocolate.
Step 10: If you have problems rolling the marshmallows in the chocolate, have a spoon handy and you can spoon the chocolate over the marshmallows and smooth out the chocolate on the marshmallows.
Step 11: Don’t forget to dip the top of the marshmallow into chocolate.
Step 12: Once the marshmallow pop is completely covered with chocolate, lightly tap the stick on the edge of the plate to get the excess chocolate off. Give it a once over to make sure it is all covered and place it on a piece of parchment paper. This will leave a “flat side” on the marshmallow, so if you want it rounded on all sides you will have to let them dry standing up and for that, you will need a form brick to put the sticks into.
How to Decorate the Marshmallow Pops
Step 13: You can use candy melts to decorate the Marshmallow Pops. Candy melts can be found in the Cake Decorating section in most Craft Supply stores, Amazon, and Walmart. We used Green and White Candy Melts.
Step 14: While the chocolate on the marshmallow pops is drying, melt 15-20 each of different colored candy melts in individual Ziploc bags in the microwave. Microwave them in 20-second intervals, massage the baggies to make sure the candy melt mixture is melting, and then microwave again if needed.
We melted the candy melts in the following amounts:
White Drizzle – 20 Bright White Candy Melts
Green Drizzle – 20 Green Candy Melts
Light Green Drizzle – 5 Bright White + 15 Green Candy Melts
Step 15: Once melted, cut the tip off the bag and drizzle the first color of candy melt over the marshmallow pop.
Step 16: Alternating colors, drizzle the rest of the melted candy over the St. Patrick’s Day Marshmallow Pops.
Step 17: Allow the St. Patrick’s Day Marshmallow Pops to harden completely before serving.
Expert Tips & FAQS
We have tried both melting chocolate and chocolate chips to coat the marshmallows and found the melting chocolate much easier to use. It melted into a thinner consistency so covering the marshmallows was easier. The chocolate chips were a little clumpy and made a much thicker coating of chocolate. As for taste, there was no difference. They were both delicious.
It is best to work with 1/2 cup of chocolate melting wafers at a time otherwise the melted chocolate will start to harden and it is too hard to cover the marshmallows.
Make sure you only cut the very very tip of the plastic bag when you are decorating the marshmallow pops. You only want a small hole to give yourself more control over the drizzle.
Marshmallow Pops will last for a couple of weeks if you store them in an airtight container. And there is no need to keep them in the refrigerator, in fact, the chocolate might discolor if you do store them in the refrigerator.
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St. Patrick's Day Marshmallow Pops
Marshmallows on a stick covered with chocolate and decorated with Green and White candy melts - these St. Patrick's Day Marshmallow Pops are delicious and easy to make.
Ingredients
- 24 Marshmallows (Regular Size)
- 1 cup Ghirardelli Chocolate Melting Wafers or Chocolate Chips
- 25 White Wilton Candy Melts
- 35 Green Wilton Candy Melts
- 8 Wilton Lollipop Sticks
Instructions
- Prepare the marshmallows before melting the chocolate. Marshmallows are like snowflakes … no two are the same, so you want to make sure you have like ones together. We sort through the bag of marshmallows and match them up in sets of threes.
- Place the first marshmallow on the lollipop stick.
- Add the second marshmallow, and adjust them on the lollipop stick.
- Add the third marshmallow but only press the marshmallow halfway down onto the stick. You do not want the stick to come out the top of the third marshmallow or the marshmallow will dry out.
- Place the 1/2 cup of melting wafters on a microwave-safe dish or paper plate. (This amount of chocolate should be enough to cover four Marshmallow Pops.)
- Microwave the chocolate for 30 seconds, check it, and give it a stir.
- Continue to microwave the chocolate, 10 seconds at a time, Alternating between heating and stirring.
- Once the chocolate is almost completely melted, give it a final stir to make sure it is completely smooth.
- Roll the marshmallows on the stick in the melted chocolate.
- If you have problems rolling the marshmallows in the chocolate, have a spoon handy and you can spoon the chocolate over the marshmallows and smooth out the chocolate on the marshmallows.
- Don’t forget to dip the top of the marshmallow into chocolate.
- Once the marshmallow pop is completely covered with chocolate, lightly tap the stick on the edge of the plate to get the excess chocolate off. Give it a once over to make sure it is all covered and place it on a piece of parchment paper. This will leave a “flat side” on the marshmallow, so if you want it rounded on all sides you will have to let them dry standing up and for that, you will need a form brick to put the sticks into.
- You can use candy melts to decorate the Marshmallow Pops.
- While the chocolate on the marshmallow pops is drying, melt 15-20 each of different colored candy melts in individual Ziploc bags in the microwave. Microwave them in 20-second intervals, massage the baggies to make sure the candy melt mixture is melting, and then microwave again if needed.
- Once melted, cut the tip off the bag and drizzle the first color of candy melt over the marshmallow pop.
- Alternating colors, drizzle the rest of the melted candy over the St. Patrick's Day Marshmallow Pops.
- Allow the marshmallow pops to harden completely before serving.
Notes
We have tried both melting chocolate and chocolate chips to coat the marshmallows and found the melting chocolate much easier to use. It melted into a thinner consistency so covering the marshmallows was easier. The chocolate chips were a little clumpy and made a much thicker coating of chocolate. As for taste, there was no difference. They were both delicious.
Candy melts can be found in the Cake Decorating section in most Craft Supply stores, Amazon, and Walmart.
It is best to work with 1/2 cup of chocolate melting wafers at a time otherwise the melted chocolate will start to harden and it is too hard to cover the marshmallows.
Marshmallow Pops will last for a couple of weeks if you store them in an airtight container. And there is no need to keep them in the refrigerator, in fact, the chocolate might discolor if you do store them in the refrigerator.
Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!
