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My baby sister is graduating with her undergrad and so I wanted to make her something fun for her party! I went to none other than the Cake Pop Queen herself for my inspiration!
I adapted mine slightly just to make use of what I had on hand! Here is how I made mine!
Items Needed:
- Pop sticks
- Peanut butter cups
- Hershey’s bars (full sized)
- Mini M&M’s
- Fruit strips
I followed Bakerella’s advice and I put the peanut butter cups in the freezer for a few minutes before I unwrapped them to make them play nice and unwrap evenly! (It didn’t matter if I froze them or not…I still had peanut butter seeping through the sides. I blame quality control at Reese’s!) I also inserted the pop sticks the same way she did! A dab of chocolate on the pop stick, stuck in the center of the peanut butter cup!
Next for my top hats…I used Hershey Bars. I broke the bars into squares of 2 rectangles. I used Hershey’s because they are much cheaper than the Godiva ones and I love Hershey’s chocolate :)
I used a dab of melted chocolate and stuck that chocolately square right on top! I placed these in the freezer for about 10 minutes to let the chocolate harden so nothing would slide around.
Again, using chocolate as my glue, I added a strip of sour candy and a mini M&M to complete the hat!
Adorable!!!
Here is how I displayed them. I bought a ceramic cereal bowl from the dollar store along with 2 circle foam discs (that I already had but bought at the dollar store also). I didn’t want the foam insert coming out when people pulled a pop out, so I hot glued it to the bottom of the bowl!
I cut the remaining disc in half and stacked, and repeated. A cone would have worked awesome here but I was using what I had on hand!
Next I arranged the pops in the styrofoam (I might have squeezed a few more in that necessary!) and covered the styrofoam with regular M&M’s
Now she has a fun centerpiece for her graduation party…and quite tasty if I might say so myself!
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Those ARE adorable! I love how you made a little bouquet of them, too~ so cute! I bet your sister loved it. :)
I hope you are having a great weekend!
Blessings,
Jenni
Thanks Jenni! She did like them! They went pretty fast :)
Love the pops! :) just wondering, what size were the Hershey bars you used? Were they the oral sized ones
Saiema, They were the regular full sized bars and I just broke the bars into square pieces.
I love this idea….just wondering if you had any suggestions on how to keep them from melting once they are out for display
Stephanie, after I made mine, they spent a day in the refrigerator. They got a little melty on the ride over to my parent’s house for the party but we just put them back in the fridge and then they were just fine afterwards sitting out in the air conditioning!