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Hi, I'm Mrs. Charles and today I'm going to show you how to make a couple of Rudolph Pops.
You'll need some help from an adult because there are some tricky parts.
When I practiced this my first one didn't harden well, so it was a mess.
So you can make the first one for practice and then the second one.
But remember, they don't have to turn out perfect, but I'm sure they'll taste great when you're finished.
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Ok, here's what you need to make your Rudolph Pops.
You need four marshmallows. You need two miniature marshmallows,
two Lolly spot - lollipop sticks or a skewer,
um, eight pretzel sticks, the straight kind, two red M&M's, four candy eyes,
a half a cup of chocolate chips, and one to two tablespoons of shortening.
I am using the Crisco brand because if you buy the sticks, it shows you where to cut to get, um, a tablespoon.
Okay, you also need four pretzels, the regular kind, a spoon, and a spatula.
In addition, you'll need a cup, a glass measuring cup and this - underneath it all I have a piece of wax paper.
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The first thing we need to do to make your Rudolph Pops is to melt your chocolate chips in the microwave.
You will need adult supervision.
Um, if you do it a minute at a time in the microwave on 50% power, it'll take several minutes,
but the chocolate chips won't burn this way.
You might need to add one to two tablespoons of Crisco to make it smooth.
But you don't want it too thin or it won't coat the marshmallows.
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Then you're gonna set it aside for the next step.
Alright, now you want to hold your marshmallow, the rounded side is here and the flat sides are here.
Place it on your countertop like this and then take the next marshmallow, hold it the same direction,
only put it a little bit like this so you have space here and it sticks out on this side.
This side will be the reindeer's head.
Take your skewer or your Popsicle stick and push it right through all the way to the bottom.
Alright. Then you're going to take your legs
and I'm going to cut the tips off because they're just a little bit too long.
So if I cut these off my legs are about the same
height and then I'm going to stick them in the marshmallow.
One,
two and then if I turn it around
three,
four and they're a little angled.
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The side sticking out will end up being your reindeer's head.
Then you're gonna place this in the freezer for a few minutes.
Okay, now take your reindeer out of the freezer.
You're ready to dip it into the chocolate.
So hold it by the stick and dip the head. Cover it completely with chocolate.
See now I've got it covered - the head covered with chocolate
and now you're gonna take your spoon
and spoon over the bottom marshmallow so it coats it all.
So you don't have any of the white showing.
Okay. Now you're gonna take it, put it head down on your wax paper,
and then put this whole thing in the freezer for a little bit.
So now you want to take your pretzels and
snip it so that it kind of looks like an antler.
See? Okay now I'll do a second one.
Alright, now we have two antlers. They're not gonna look the same and they don't have to.
So I pulled my reindeer off the, um, wax paper and it's a little messy.
But now I'm going to stick in -
here I have to put it down - stick in the antler on one side
and then the other antler on the other side.
You will need some help doing this because you can see it's kind of hard to stick it in.
So there we have our antlers.
Okay, now I've used a cup to stick my stick in with my, um,
front legs in the cup and my back legs out. That way it kind of holds it up a little
or you can have your mom or dad hold it up for you while you take your spoon
and put a little melted chocolate on the face - this is the part that's sticking out -
and you'll put two eyes on. Oops!
One and two
and then you'll also want to put the M&M for your Rudolph nose.
Then you put a little bit of melted chocolate on the bottom,
bottom for the little marshmallow on the tail.
And there you have your reindeer.
Front, back and side. Isn't he cute?
Now, my reindeer on the top is a little short of chocolate, so I think I'll just add a little more chocolate. Oops!
A little more chocolate on the top and then you can put it back in the cup and put it in your refrigerator
and it will be ready for you to eat when it's nice and hard.
I hope you enjoyed making these Rudolph Pops.
I hope it got you into the holiday spirit and that you learned to melt the chocolate.
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