How to Make Lego Marshmallow Pop Party Favors
I made these Lego Marshmallow Pops a few weeks ago for the twins’ fifth birthday party. They are so much easier to make than you might think. Of course it involves melting candy wafers- one of my favorite things to do!
Ready? Here we go….
You’ll need:
- 1 bag of big marshmallows
- yellow candy wafers
- double boiler
- serrated knife (cuts the marshmallow with ease!)
- sucker sticks (craft store)
- icing bag and small writing tip (for making the face)
- black gel icing dye
- Royal Icing (I bought the boxed stuff that you just add water to- so easy!)
- treat bags and black ribbon (if you want to wrap them up)
Use a serrated knife to cut the top of the marshmallow off as shown below.
Use a coupler from an icing bag, or something of the same shape and size, to cut a hole in the marshmallow top that you just cut off.
Now you are left with three pieces like this:
Take the small round marshmallow piece and press it to the top of the large marshmallow piece. If you need to use a dot of water to make it stick you can do so.
Insert a sucker stick in the bottom end of the marshmallow ensembles as the picture below shows.
Next, dip the marshmallow-ed stick into your melted yellow candy wafers. (When I dip you dip we dip. Remember that song? Or am I the only one?)
Resemble a Lego head yet? So cute, hua?
Now, let it cool 100%. Use a floral foamy block to stick it in while it cools.
Once the Lego heads are cool, mix up some Royal Icing. I buy the boxed/bagged kind from the craft store or cake supply place. You just add water- so simple!
Once you’ve mixed the icing, add some black gel dye to it.
Place it in a piping bag with a small writing tip on it. I used a #2 tip.
Pipe little eyes and lips onto the Lego heads. Use Lego faces you have as a template. I just stuck with smiley faces and dot eyes.
Now you can use cellophane treat bags and some black curly ribbon to finish up.
Pop them in the goody bags and you have a hit! A crowd pleaser for sure! 🙂
I am sharing this tutorial on thesecrafty and resourceful sites. Thank you Living Locurto for the awesome tutorial and pointers to get me started.
These are totally awesome and cute.
What a clever idea.
Thank you so much Kia! They were fun to make and the kids had so much fun eating them! 🙂
This is such a fun idea and so easy. I .love it!
Katie- make them! 🙂 So much fun.
Love your new page, and how adorable are those Lego pops!
These are so cute. I LOVE the song reference!! I also can not forget to mention that I LOVE your blog layout! It looks so nice and clean and fresh. I want one just like it now. HA!
Thanks for stopping by my blog yesterday. It was great to see you. : ) I hope you enjoy that recipe when you make it. We sure did!
What a great idea! This is something that I will have to try. By the way, your pictures are great!
Thank you so much Kristin!
love anything lego! great job 🙂
Thanks for the cute idea! My son, my dad, and all of the cousins on my side of the family all LOVE Legos. I’ll probably end up making these at some point. 🙂
What a great idea. I have to try this one. I love your blog. I am your latest follower. I would love for you to come and check out my blog and follow me back at http://www.diybydesign.blogspot.com. Thanks so much.
These are so darn cool! How fun!
soo cute! i’m currently planning a lego party for my soon to be 7 year old & these look like so much fun! i want a dessert table that won’t break the bank & these are a great idea (much more do-able than cake balls for sure in this instance!)
thanks for sharing!! found you via skip to my lou!! 🙂
Kristy Lynn, I’ve got lots of Lego stuff here, just search for it. I still have more fun Lego stuff to add. 🙂 Have fun!
Love them. I had a lego party for my little guy this year, wish I’d seen this first!!! We had legoman heads EVERYWHERE, and these would have fit perfectly.
Amy’s tutorial is amazing and she throws the best parties ever. You did such an amazing job with this. Now I’m dying to have a cake ball – my goodness those are just a little piece of heaven.
So awesome…my guys will love these!!!
THese are so very awesome for any little boy.
These are AWESOME! WOW! how creative!!! Can’t wait to make them!! My boy will for sure have me on the top of his list when I do!! 🙂
So fun!I’m hosting my first Linky party and would love for you to submit to it!
http://runwithglitter.blogspot.com/2011/03/glitters-first-linky-party_22.html#comments
Soooo cute! Great idea! and thanks for the instructions too – I might just have to try this!
Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit!
Hope you have a great week!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
http://www.jembellish.blogspot.com/
ahhhhhh these are so CUTE!!!
Thank you so much Ashley. Thanks for stopping by my site.
AGH! These are perfect! We are having a Lego party in May and I so want to try to make these for the favors. How cute are these?! Thanks for the great tutorial!!!
Amber- I have lots of Lego stuff on my site… we just had a big Lego b-day party. Just click on the Birthday Ideas tab and it will take you to them. 😉
Thanks for reading!
So cool! Thanks too for the tip to poke sticks into foam!
My little guy would LOVE these! Super cute!
Perfect for my son’s Birthday in May. Thanks for sharing!
These are so cute!
I’d like to invite you to share this recipe with my linky, Sweet Tooth Friday. I hope to see you there.
http://alli-n-son.com/2011/03/31/toffee-snickerdoodle-cookies/
this is so darn cute!!! would love to have ya join our weekend long party!
kelli & kristi
Lolly Jane
ps: we’re twins that run our blog, twins are the BEST! (:
Thank you for this tutorial. I appreciate it. I have not yet made cake pops, but marshmallow pops sound easier! 🙂
I am visiting from WFMW, it is nice to ‘meet” you. Enjoy the rest of your week!
LaVonne @ Long Wait For Isabella
Hi , i love these and would love to make them for my sons up-coming birthday , but im from the uk and was wondering , what exactly is the candy wafer covering the equivalent to in the uk here , Thanks xx
Louise- this is what you’re looking for in a candy wafer. I bet you could order them online and have them shipped to you. If not from this site, try amazon or ebay- just search candy melts or wilton candy wafers, etc. There are many different brands on the market if Wilton is not available.
http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E310A5F-475A-BAC0-513EBB4AAC195A7E&killnav=1
Hope that helps. Have fun!
Can anybody give me an estimate on total time it takes to complete 25 of these? And approximate cooling time? Thanks.
Amy- it has been over a year since I made these, but to make 25 I would carve out an entire afternoon.
I popped mine in the freezer to speed up the cooling time.
Hope that helps.
Love this idea! So creative but still simple to do. Thanks so much 🙂