Football Oreo Pops {College Football Saturday Tailgate 2012}

Happy col­lege foot­ball game­day!! We’re look­ing for­ward to another day of cheer­ing on our Huskers and plan­ning on some “home­gat­ing” with friends. But, no mat­ter where you’re watch­ing the games today or who your favorite team is, I have a SUPER easy & cute sweet treat for you…

Foot­ball Oreo Pops!

I’ve seen some var­i­ous foot­ball party posts out there with these fab­u­lous football-shaped Oreo cook­ies. So, for the past few weeks, I’ve checked the Oreo sec­tion at every store I’ve been to, with NO luck! Then, finally, I was out yes­ter­day & found the only pack­age on the shelves! Woot! Since I’ve made foot­ball cake pops and foot­ball oreo truf­fle pops (and since the Hal­loween oreo pops were such a big hit last year), I knew I wanted to try some foot­ball Oreo pops with them! I think they turned out great and they are seri­ously SO easy!

Here is what you’ll need to make them:

- Foot­ball Oreos

- Candy Melts or Bark Coat­ing (dark choco­late and white)

- Pop­si­cle or lol­lipop sticks

*note: when using non-double stuff oreos, I find that the pop­si­cle stick hold up bet­ter in the oreos than the round lol­lipop sticks

To make:

Start by plac­ing the sticks into the cream layer of the oreos. It can help every­thing stick bet­ter if you dip the end of the stick in the choco­late first. Then, as it hard­ens, it helps hold the stick in place. Then, melt your choco­late accord­ing to pack­age direc­tions. I always just put the candy in a bowl & use the microwave–way eas­ier that way! Coat each “oreo on a stick” with choco­late. Let harden (I usu­ally stick them into a sty­ro­foam block to hold them as they harden). Once the choco­late coat­ing is hard, put some melted white candy coat­ing in a bag­gie with the tip cut off (or a pip­ing bag) and pipe on the foot­ball laces. That’s it! Super easy! Then (once the laces harden), all that’s left is to decide on how you’d like to dis­play them. Indi­vid­u­ally wrap them in cel­lo­phane with cute foot­ball rib­bon or put together a lit­tle team dis­play! I’m sure you wouldn’t be shocked to find out that I did a lit­tle Huskers dis­play! Now it’s YOUR turn. I can’t wait to see your football-related fun & creativity!

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