May 16: Flower Lollipops



All done making the flower!



Working so carefully!



The original instructions for the flower lollipops are HERE at busybeekidscrafts.com.  I thought this was such a cool idea!  It didn't turn out quite as I had expected, but the boys LOVED them!  One thing I never really thought about before making these was that each lollipop takes seven Life Savers to complete...which means your child will be eating seven pieces of candy if he eats the whole lollipop in one sitting! 

I purchased three rolls of hard Life Savers candy and we were able to create 5 lollipops using that candy.  If you don't have three rolls to work with you probably won't have all the same color petals on each flower, but that could be cute, too. 




All ready for the oven!

 Cousin Isaac was over for the afternoon so he made the red lollipop, Ty made the orange lollipop and I made the purple on as an example. 



Melted sweetness!

Line a cookie sheet pan with TIN FOIL (if you notice in the picture I used waxed paper since I was out of tin foil...not a good idea.  The waxed paper stuck to the lollipops!).  Preheat the oven to 250 degrees.  Place the Popsicle stick on the pan and then place the "center" of the flower at the top of the Popsicle stick.  Place another candy, also on the stick, underneath that.  Encircle the "center with the other candies, making sure they all touch each other so they'll melt properly.  Place in the oven for 11-13 minutes or until candy is melted.  Let cool and peel off.  Enjoy!

 

"It's so tasty!"



"Mmmmmmm!"