Lollipop Monsters Recipes

Steps:

• Use frosting or melted sugar (see recipe - http://www.food.com/recipe/melted-sugar-houses-442917) to glue the candy together.glue-forcandy-.
• Take the large black & green gumdrops and turn upside down then slide onto lollipop stick.
• Press hard so the lollipop stick pocks through the gumdrops.
• Take the black shoestring licorice and wrap around gap between black and green gumdrop. Use frosting or melted sugar to glue it onto place.
• For the arms apply sugar glue to one of the sour green candies and attach to large green gumdrop on the right. Repeat this for the left arm.
• For the shoulders cut the tops off of two small green gumdrops and apply where the sour green candies and large green gumdrop meet.
• For the legs take the two cut small green gumdrops, turning upside down apply sugar glue and attach to the bottom of the large black gumdrop.
• For the feet take the two soft licorice drops and attach with sugar glue to the cut portions of the small green gumdrop legs.
• For the face take the remaining small green gumdrop and attach the green coated licorice mini tothe top of the gumdrop. Take two small white sprinkles and press into the small green gumdrop for eyes.
• For the mouth cut a small half inch portion of the red shoestring licorice and attach to the small green gumdrop face with sugar glue.
• Attach the head to the top of the large green gumdrop.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• To decorate
• Have the cake balls chilled and in the refrigerator.
• Melt the purple candy coating in a microwave-safe plastic bowl, following the instructions on the package. The coating should be about 3 inches deep for easier dipping. (I usually work with about 16 ounces of coating at a time.)
• When you are ready to dip, remove a few cake balls at a time from the refrigerator, keeping the rest chilled.
• One at a time, dip about 1/2 inch of the tip of a lollipop stick in the melted candy coating, and insert the stick straight into a cake ball, pushing it no more than halfway through. Dip the cake pop into the melted coating, and tap off any excess coating. Hold the pop over the bowl in one hand, and tap your wrist gently with your other hand. If you use the hand holding the cake pop to shake off excess coating, the force of the movement will be too strong and could cause the cake ball to loosen or fly off the lollipop stick. Tapping the wrist holding the cake pop absorbs some of the impact. The excess coating will fall off, but you will need to rotate the lollipop stick so the coating doesn't build up on one side, making it too heavy on that side. If too much coating starts to build up at the base of the stick, simply use your finger to wipe it off, spinning the lollipop stick at the same time. This can happen if the coating is too thin or too hot. It's not as hard as it sounds; it just takes a little practice.
• Let dry in a Styrofoam block.
• Pour the remaining purple coating into a large squeeze bottle, and pipe random, drizzled lines all around the monster head. Let dry completely in the Styrofoam block.
• On some of the pops, pipe two small white circles with a candy writer for the eyes, and insert 2 chocolate jimmies before the coating sets.
• On the remaining pops, pipe a single large, white circle. Let dry completely and draw a large blue circle inside the white circle, using a blue edible-ink pen. With a black edible-ink pen, outline the circle and draw a pupil to finish the eye.
• Let dry completely.
• Note:
• You can also use melted white candy coating for the eyes.

Steps:

• Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan, using water, oil and eggs. Cool. Line cookie sheet with waxed paper. Crumble cake into large bowl. Add frosting; mix well. Shape into 1-inch balls; place on cookie sheet. Freeze until firm; refrigerate.
• In microwavable bowl, microwave blue candy melts and shortening uncovered on Medium (50%) 1 minute, then in 15-second intervals, until melted; stir until smooth. Dip tip of 1 lollipop stick about 1/2 inch into melted blue candy and insert stick into 1 cake ball no more than halfway. Repeat. Return to cookie sheet. Refrigerate 5 minutes. Remove from refrigerator a few at a time. Dip cake balls in melted blue candy; tap off excess. Poke opposite end of stick into foam block. Immediately attach 2 candy straw pieces to top of pop for antennae, holding in place until set. Let stand until set.
• Spoon melted purple candy into resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut off small corner of bag. Squeeze bag to pipe mouth and teeth onto cake pops. Use remaining melted candy to attach candy eyes to antennae.