Valentine’s Day Marshmallow Wands
These Valentine’s Day Marshmallow Wands are so easy to make and so very delicious. Marshmallows on a stick, covered in chocolate and then decorated for Valentine’s Day – you can’t go wrong with this treat.
Every year Laurie and I take a trip to Disneyland. When we were there in December we saw Marshmallow Wands at the Main Street Candy Store. They were so cute and we said, almost in unison, “we could do that.” When Laurie and I were talking about what to make for Valentine’s Day we knew we had to make some Valentine’s Day Marshmallow Wands. They were a huge success at our house. My husband said they were the best Two Sisters dessert that we have made! The combination of chocolate and marshmallows is super delicious and they were very easy to eat. We will definitely be making these again!
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 Wands
Step 13: Gather up the supplies you will use to decorate the marshmallow wands. We used Valentine’s colored sprinkles, Valentine’s themed M&M’s, And Pink, Red, and White Candy Melts.
Step 14: The candy melts will be used to creating a colorful drizzle on the marshmallow wands. You will want to 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.
Step 15: To decorate with M&M’s make sure you press them into the chocolate before it begins to harden. The melting chocolate dries quickly so if you are going to sticking something to the marshmallow wands do it immediately.
Step 16: Sprinkles should also be added to the chocolate before it begins to harden.
Step 17: Valentine’s jimmies also look pretty on the marshmallow wands.
Step 18: You can drizzle colored candy melts on the marshmallow wand but you should wait to do this until after the chocolate hardens. Melt 15-20 Wilton Candy Melts in a Ziploc bag. Once melted, cut the tip off the bag and drizzle 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. Alternate colors to make it look super pretty and festive.
Step 19: Allow the marshmallow pops to harden completely before serving.
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Valentine's Day Marshmallow Wands
These Valentines Day Marshmallow Wands are so easy to make and so very delicious. They are an amazingly beautiful Valentine's Day treat to make for your family.
Ingredients
- 24 Marshmallows (Regular Size)
- 1 cup Ghirardelli Chocolate Melting Wafers or Chocolate Chips
- 15 Red Candy Melts
- 15 Pink Candy Melts
- 15 White Candy Melts
- Valentine's Day sprinkles
- Valentines' Mix M&M's
- 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. 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.
- 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 Valentine's Marshmallow Pops.
- Allow the marshmallow pops to harden completely before serving.
- Optional decorating ideas: while chocolate is still warm sprinkle the Marshmallow Pops with sprinkles or Valentine's M&M's.
- Allow the drizzle on the Marshmallow Pops to harden before storing in an air-tight container.
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 and 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.
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