Ice Cream Pop Cookies

Ever since Jack started high school, I stopped with the end-of-year gifts for individual teachers. Gosh, typing that just made me feel like a terrible person. Hear me out...


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What I've started doing instead is making a big tray of goodies for the entire faculty and staff to have during finals week.
Listen, I'm sure those teachers can use a sugar buzz to make it through until summer just as much as the kids. Maybe more so. 


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[note: BIG NOTE...Jack goes to a small school. If my mom had made year-end treats for the faculty/staff at the high school I went to, she would have needed to start baking in September.]

I've done trays of brownies and cookies. I've sent up big batches of the New York Times chocolate chip cookies. This year, I wanted something that screamed, "SUMMER!" Maybe because it won't. stop. raining. around here and I needed a little visual sunshine.




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I made these ice cream pop cookies. I have this little board on Pinterest called "this would make a totally cute cookie." It's where I save things that would, well, make a totally cute cookie. You can see the inspiration for these there.

ice cream pops decorated cookies tutorial

Originally, I started doing surgery on a rectangle-shaped cookie to get this shape. Then I realized that I had exactly the shape I was cutting out...my tombstone cookie! Who knew tombstones could be so cute?!?

To make ice cream pop cookies, you'll need:

When rolling out the cookie dough, roll to about 3/8" thick. Space on cookie sheet so that a popsicle stick will fit between cookies. 

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Bake according to recipe. Immediately upon removing from oven, insert popsicle stick into each cookie. Let the cookies rest on the cookie sheet, then remove to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

Meanwhile, make the icing, divide and tint. Thin the peach, pink and white icings with water, a bit at a time, stirring gently. Thin until a knife drown through the middle of the icing disappears in a count of 12-15 seconds.

Cover the thinned icings with a damp dish towel until ready to use. Pour the icings into squeeze bottles.


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Outline and fill each section of the ice cream pop, starting with the top and bottoms sections. Use a toothpick to nudge icing into spaces and pop any large air bubbles.



Let these dry at least one hour before filling the center.


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For the "fudge"-covered pops, let the base color dry for an hour or more. (I let these sit in the dehydrator for about 2 hours.) Thin the brown icing in the same manner and apply over the base coat. Use a toothpick to nudge icing into spaces and pop any large air bubbles. Sprinkle nonpareils on top.

Let the cookies dry completely, uncovered, for 6-8 hours or overnight.

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Doesn't this make you want to put all of your cookies on a popsicle stick? ;)

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