Springtime Marshmallow Pops
Your family will love these Springtime Marshmallow Pops. But who wouldn’t love marshmallows on a stick covered with chocolate and decorated with sprinkles?
These Springtime Marshmallow Pops are officially one of our new favorite things to make. They are so easy to make, taste delicious, and most importantly can be decorated to fit any holiday or occasion. Marshmallow Pops are a homemade candy bar on a stick and who doesn’t love marshmallow and chocolate? What a great Easter treat or a fun dessert for a springtime baby shower or birthday party. And did we already say how yummy they are? Give them a try, you won’t be sorry!
Ingredients You Will Need
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 Springtime Marshmallow Pops
Step 13 and 14: If you want to add sprinkles, you need to do that while the chocolate is still warm so they will stick.
Step 15 and 16: For most of our Springtime Marshmallow Pops we drizzled colored candy melts on them for decoration. While the chocolate was drying, we melted 15-20 Wilton Candy Melts in a Ziploc bag. Once melted, we cut the tip off the bag and drizzled the candy over the marshmallow wands. Make sure you only cut the very very tip of the bag. You only want a small hole to give yourself more control over the drizzle They turn out so pretty with the drizzled candy melts!
Expert Tips and 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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Springtime Marshmallow Pops
Your family will love these Springtime Marshmallow Pops. But who wouldn't love marshmallows on a stick covered with chocolate and decorated with sprinkles?
Ingredients
- 24 Marshmallows (Regular Sized)
- 1 cup Ghirardelli Chocolate Melting Wafers or Chocolate Chips
- 8 Lollipop Sticks
- Wilton Candy Melts (we used Bright Blue, Bright Pink, Yellow, Lavender and Bright White)
- Easter Sprinkles
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 decorate the Marshmallow Pops with sprinkles, just remember to add the sprinkles while the chocolate is still warm so they will stick.
- You can also 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 Springtime 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. We used Red, White, Light Pink, and Dark Pink.
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!
