getting lucky!

St. Patrick's Day cake pop fun ahead! 

Check it out!

 You know, you don't have to be Irish to celebrate St. Patty's day, right? EVERYONE is Irish one day a year! All you need is some green, some rainbows and some gold, there! Oh and some ham, potatoes and cabbage... maybe some Irish potatoes... some Bailey's if that's your thing. lol.

But these! These are something the kids will DEFINITELY love. And these were fun! I just love my little lucky! At the end of this tutorial there were be a little story! But for now, let's see how these came together.

Here is my already mixed cake pop dough and what I used to make the shapes for my 3 cake pops.

I used My Little Cakepop snowman mold for lucky and the cupcake mold for his hat. Just smoosh your cake dough in and close.

The round cookie cutters are about 2 in for the large and 1 in for the small. Here I just smooshed the cake dough in the large circle cutter.

Pop your dough out of the cutter. For an even cut, I like to use a square cutter. So just cut the round dough right in half with the square cutter, or a knife, whatever you want.

Once you have it halved, take the smaller cutter and cut out the middle. NOT TOO MUCH. I'm not yelling at you. I swear. I just want to make sure you eye it good. Enough to make a nice rainbow, but not too much that your stick will go right through the top of the rainbow. Remember that. Thumbs up.

Perfect little rainbow shape!

Now, we are going to dip the stick in the candy melts and gently into the rainbow being very careful not to push it through the cake pop. Then, in stand, place it in the freezer at least like 7 minutes. Yea that's good.

Once out the freezer and firm, dip in your candy melts asap. I like the blue, representing the sky the rainbow is coming through. Here is what you need to create your rainbow! A baggie filled with white melted candy. All 6 colors in sugar form, yum. And some micro marshmallows for the clouds. Too cute.

 Instead of melting all 6 colors of the rainbow, I just melted white. Simple. Then with each piped out line, pour one color of sugar. Here's the first line...

So one at a time, pipe and sugar each color..

Continue piping and sugaring each one to the very bottom.

Now it's all done! And ready to get cloudy!

Pipe some melted candy on the bottom end of each side of the rainbow. One side at a time. Once you have some melted candy all over the end, start piling on the micro marshmallows.

 

Cute little rainbow!

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Time to make lucky's hat! 

Start with dipping your stick in the green melted candy and insert into the bottom of your cupcake cake pop.

Once the seal is dry dip your cake pop into the green, fully submerge!

Tap off all the excess candy and smooth the bottom with a tooth pick if you need to.

Time to fill the hat with gold! I used gold sugars and some pearls.

Dip straight down just enough to cover the very top of the cupcake.

Should look just like this. Try not to do too much because we need that middle rim for the hat.

Then dip the cake pop into the gold sugars to coat all the wet melted candy.

Before the candy dries, put some gold pearls into the hat.

To make the rim, fill a baggy with melted green candy. You will pipe on a rim around the hat.

Pipe the green right under the gold, and then right where the bottom separates from the top of the cupcake shape. Like this.

Then fill in between the lines. Smooth out with a toothpick to make the rim as smooth as possible.

Right below the green rim, using a baggie filled with black melted candy, pipe a little belt all the way around.

Finish the belt with a buckle using yellow melted candy and a tooth pick. Dip the toothpick in the melts and draw on. Be careful to leave the little square in the middle.

Now flip it over!

It looks like a little leprechaun hat, right!

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Time to make lucky! Here's all his parts! HA!

Using mini marshmallows for his arms and legs, dip them into the candy melts and then stick onto his body.

 

Just like this!

Put the stick in his body before attaching his legs.

Once all his parts are on he should look like this! Now he needs to head to the freezer for about 7 minutes to stabilize him.

Out of the freezer and right into the melted flesh colored melted candy. Tap off the extra candy quickly before the candy dries.

Here he is looking like a nude morph suit! AHAHA!

Yes he does have a crack across his belly.

I will fix it.

Fix the crack - if you get one - by using a toothpick and smoothing some melted candy over the crack and scraping off. Smooth over with your finger. After that remove the stick.

Do this by having a firm grip on the cake pop but NOT squeezing it, and a good grip on the stick. Twist the stick several times around to loosen and then start to gently pull as you are twisting.

To put his clothes on we need to dip his body into the green candy melts.

He only goes in up to his head, just like this! Then pull him out quickly! Actually, don't let him go like I did, LOLOL.

Quick! Pull him out and put the stick back in the original hole! Secure him and then tap off all the excess green chocolate to smooooth out his jolly little outfit!

Ok see that little bowl of rainbow sprinkles, yes. Pick out 3 little buttons. YESSSS.. perfect. ps, you can get these sprinkles FREE when you buy Pillsbury frosting, check it out at the store!

 

Orange! Time to beard him up! For this use a baggie filled with melted orange candy melts snipped with a small hole and micro marshmallows to build up the beard and make him extra yummmmy.

Pipe on some orange candy and start placing a nice layer across the bottom. Base bearding. LOL.

After you have the first layer, pipe over that to cover with orange and then put on the next layer of micro marshmallows... to continue building the beard. lil cutie.

Well just look at em! After the second layer of micros i piped over them with orange and then started a scribble effect with the piping bag to give him those curly q's. Then pipe on a mustache, eyebrows and hair/beard around this head/neck because I wanted him bald. haha.

He looks so cute. Almost done. Get some black melted candy bagged and ready for a few more details! yippayyyy.

 

Now pipe some cute little eyeballs, and outline his sleeves and pants. Then pipe all the way around for a belt. So Irish.

 

He absolutely must have a nose! Bring back your flesh colored melted candy! Dab on that itty bitty nose with a toothpick.

Pick out a couple shamrocks from your stash if you have them. If you don't... hey you're just not Irish enough for this project. JKJKJKJK! Just skip it if you don't have them! He looks plenty Irishish.

He needs a couple of hands to hold all that gold! Smooth on some flesh colored candy and a few micros for each hand. You could then cover in flesh color if you were not going to cover his hands in gold.

But I am. So just put some yellow on his hands with a toothpick for a good grip. He's gonna need it. :P

Dip his hand in the gold sprinkles! And repeat for the other hand!

Get all that gold, lucky. GET IT!

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And now, the story of lucky!

One day little lucky lost his hat while walking outside.
But then he got REALLY lucky!

He found gold?! He thought could he really be that lucky?!

As he kept walking, he kept finding more and more!

But his little hands could not hold a lot! 

 As he kept walking, following the trail, he thought....

Where is my hat? He sure did miss his lucky little hat.

All he could do was keep walking and keep searching...

While he walked the trail of gold,
he tried to carry as much as he could!

But he still kept looking for his hat. He even stopped by the local football stadium!

No luck for lucky though.

He started to think, maybe he could buy a
new hat with all the gold he found...

BUT! He loved that hat. It was special!

 He stopped by his mama's house. She had not seen his hat.

Oh lucky....

Don't give up!

He even stopped by the army for help!
Oh lucky, they don't look for hats!

He was about to stop looking and just go home for the night. Feeling a little sad. He wondered if he would ever EVER find his hat...

But he didn't give up hope! Around the corner was the trail led
him to a beautiful rainbow and his hat, 
filled with gold at the end of the rainbow! WOW!
Lucky thanked his lucky stars and was so happy he did not give up!
Way to go lucky!

Happy St. Patrick's Day, lucky!