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S’more Marshmallow Pops on a Stick

I Love You S’More Each Day, Princess!

It’s my week for Teacher “Happies” at Princess’ school. Being the over-achiever that I am, I cannot just bring breakfast once or a cake at random. I must, absolutely must, come bearing food each day. It is hard-wired into me. My week. My obsession.

So here’s how it’s gone down so far
Monday: Giant cupcake cake. Princess decorated it with sprinkles, stars and mini-M&M’s.

Tuesday: Oatmeal cookies with cherries instead of raisins
Wednesday: New York bagels and real cream cheese from Cindy’s Delicatessen

So tonight after a requisite terrible two’s meltdown, Princess decided post-sniffle that she would join me in the kitchen up on her throne (stepstool) to assist with the making of S’More Pops. Princess has never had a S’More, nor has she ever seen one, but she’s pretty much game for anything that she can help Mommy with regardless of its culinary value to her young palate.

This may be the easiest treat ever. Here’s all you need:

• Lollipop sticks
• Big marshmallows
• Melting chocolate – I just used the Kroger’s brand for candy, strawberries, desserts, etc.
• Graham cracker crumbs – I started to buy graham crackers thinking I would crush them myself until I found the tub of them already pulverized in the baking aisle. Schaweet!
• Large bowl
• Cookie Sheet
• Waxed Paper
• Umbrella

And here’s what to do:
1. Cut up your chocolate and dump it into your chocolate melter and make your child dinner while it silkens up. If you don’t have one of these, no prob. Stick it in the microwave and melt according to directions.
2. Dump some graham cracker crumbs into a shallow bowl
3. Put waxed paper on cookie sheet.
4. Shove a stick into a marshmallow. Set on cookie sheet until you are ready for it. Repeat. Again. Again. Again…
5. Stir chocolate.
6. Entice toddler to eat another fish stick.
7. More sticks into mallows.
8. Try toddler’s fish sticks and realize they taste like crap. Stop encouraging toddler to eat said fish sticks and offer toddler a marshmallow.
9. Stir chocolate. If it’s too thick, add a tiny bit of vegetable oil to it.
10. Throw half-eaten soggy marshmallow away and wipe off toddler hands.
11. Explain to toddler that mommy is going to dunk marshmallows into melted chocolate, tap it gently on the side to get off the excess (Actually I’d advise not pointing this out. Toddler will mimic this technique with extreme force, slinging hot melted chocolate to the four corners of your kitchen in the process, without the emphasis on the tapping proces), and then hand it to toddler to roll into the graham crackers to coat with crumbs.
12. Dunk marshmallow.
13. Tap gently on side of melter or bowl to get extra chocolate off so it doesn’t run down the lollipop stick.
14. Hand to eagerly awaiting toddler.
15. Watch as toddler grinds marshmallow with excessive enthusiasm into shallow bowl sending crumb dust flying into orbit and every crevice of your stovetop and counters.
16. Yell to hubs to please retrieve the REALLY LARGE YELLOW plastic bowl to dump what’s left of the graham crackers into.
17. Transfer graham crackers to large yellow mixing bowl.
18. Add more graham crackers.
19. Place covered S’more pop on cookie sheet end side down, stick side up to dry.
20. Repeat.

Princess actually got quite good at this. But she informed me that she felt she had achieved the height of successful cracker application and was ready for a bit more responsibility. This was communicated not so much by thoughtful negotiation, but by the deft snatching of sticks and skewering of marshmallows independent of Mommy’s offer to help. I believe I did receive a, “No, I DO IT” – the toddler mantra — at least once during the coup. It was followed by the confident dunking and rapping like a drummers stick of the marshmallow (while liquid chocolate went flying and the hubs took cover, hence the recommendation for the umbrella in the supply list) and immediate transfer into the bowl of grahams. Once she felt the application was sufficient, a solid smack down of the candy glob onto the tray signified her completion and she was diving in for the next puffy victim.

And there went quality control.

I have to say, this is an easy project that would be great fun for kids of all ages. I think the teacher’s will appreciate the effort and pride that Princess put into her pops. And I appreciate the fact that Princess won’t lick the chocolate off her fingers but holds them up for Mommy to do it.


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