Easy Homemade Christmas Marshmallow Pops: Santa's Bag
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Easy Homemade Christmas Marshmallow Pops: Santa's Bag
Description
This recipe creates Santa’s Bag marshmallow pops by inserting straws into jumbo marshmallows and coating them in melted red chocolate. Mini marshmallows are attached near the top and covered with white decorating icing to simulate the fluffy bag trim. The red chocolate base provides a smooth, sweet shell, while the mini marshmallows and icing add texture and festive detailing.
The decoration uses various colors of cookie decorating icing—white, green, red, and brown—and holiday-themed sprinkles to enhance the holiday aesthetic. The technique involves melting chocolate and icing, assembling layers, and allowing each to set, resulting in visually appealing marshmallow treats.
These marshmallow pops serve well as holiday snacks, party favors, or edible decorations. They engage creativity and can be customized, such as using colored white chocolate melts instead of icing. The recipe is seasonal and ideal for festive gatherings.
Ingredients
- 12 marshmallows jumbo
- 1 marshmallows mini, bagged
- 2 bags 12 oz red chocolate melts
- 1 bag 7 oz white cookie decorating icing
- 1 bag 7 oz green cookie decorating icing
- 1 bag 7 oz red cookie decorating icing
- 1 bag 7 oz brown cookie decorating icing
- holiday sprinkles
- holiday straws
Instructions
Santa’s Bag
- Place a silicone baking mat inside of a baking sheet. If you don’t have one, a piece of parchment paper or wax paper will work in its place.
- Set aside your 12 jumbo marshmallows and 12 red and white straws.
- Using a microwave-safe bowl, melt your red melting chocolate
- Stir until smooth.
- Put a small dollop of the red melting chocolate on the center of the jumbo marshmallow.
- Insert the straw through the red chocolate in the center of the jumbo marshmallow.
- Set aside to dry.
- Reheat the red melting chocolate in the microwave and stir until smooth.
- Dip the jumbo marshmallow in the melted red chocolate, coating it almost to the very top.
- Place a dollop of the white cookie decorating icing on each mini marshmallow. Put the mini marshmallows around the top of the jumbo marshmallow.
- Coat the mini marshmallows with the white cookie decorating icing to give it a fluffy look. Set to the side to dry.
Gingerbread Man, snowmen, and Gift Boxes instructions
- Create your Christmas characters on the parchment paper using your brown, red, green, and white decorating icing. Set to the side to dry.
- Decorate your Santa’s bag by using the white decorating icing for the drawstrings on the front.
- Add some white icing on the top of the jumbo marshmallow.
- Put the snowmen, gingerbread men, and gifts on top of the white icing.
- Finally, add your holiday sprinkles. Set to the side to dry.
Notes
- Use melted white chocolate with added food coloring as an alternative to cookie decorating icing.
- Employ a piping bag for more precise decorating when applying colored icing.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 12Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 208 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1g | |
| Calories | 208kcal | 10% |
| Carbohydrates | 36.6g | 12% |
| Protein | 1.9g | 4% |
| Fat | 3.8g | 6% |
| Saturated Fat | 0.1g | 1% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 0.3g | 2% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 0.1g | 1% |
| Sodium | 208mg | 9% |
| Potassium | 37mg | 1% |
| Sugar | 25.7g | 51% |
| Calcium | 7mg | 1% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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