Bomb Pop Cookies

IT'S HOT HERE, and of course, this makes me think of popsicles again.  Specifically one of my favorites, BOMB POPS {really they are all my favorite, but I don't like to admit it}.

I have always had a love affair with Bomb Pops.  I actually tend to call them Astro Pops, but those are really suckers.

In any case, the popsicle version was a rare thing in my kid days.  Mom never bought them for us, because she said it took two hours for my brothers and I, {probably mostly me} to DEVOUR the whole box.  So for this Otter Pop kid, the ONLY time I had the pleasure of enjoying a bomb pop was in the summer, of course, on the occasion that I was visiting my Nanny, because she was VERY generous with the quarters AND because my REAL home was literally in the middle of nowhere.  No ice cream trucks out there, kids =(

ANYWAY, here is my obsession in cookie form.

I used a small baby bottle cutter like THIS ONE to make the actual cookie, and inserted cool little half-size popsicle sticks that I got at my local craft store.

To decorate Bomb Pop Cookies you will need:

• black piping icing
• red, white, and blue flood icing a tiny bit thinner than 20-second icing...maybe 17-second-ish
• any color food color marker

These are not difficult, just tedious...

To begin, use the food color marker to divide your cookie into segments as pictured below.  This will help to keep them uniform as you decorate.

As you can see, I used my purple pen because I don't use it that much.  After the cookies were marked, I outlined them with black, using a #3 tip.  You can definitely use a #2 if you like.

Next, I began the flooding process.  The key is to fill alternating sections so that you get the definition of a real Bomb Pop.

Let them dry for 30-40 minutes {I prefer to use a fan} then come back and fill another section.

In hindsight, I could have done this in 3 steps, BUT, I've never been known for doing things the easy way.

Let that dry for a while, and then fill another section...

And after a bit more drying ANOTHER, and FINALLY they are finished! 

I probably didn't need all of the pictures, but I'm a visual person, so I like to really put it out there.

And for those of you who think it's mildly insane to do all the steps above this works just as well.  Same concept.  Three sections, fill the red and blue, come back, fill the white, let it dry, and use the black and a #1.5 or #2 tip to add lines.

And if you want yours to have a cute little bite taken out of it, I do this...{ignore the fact that these are watermelons rather than Bomb Pops}

Any, fluted edged cutter will work, by the way.

I hope that everyone out there is COOLER than I am!  Did I mention that it is disgustingly HOT here?

*Sigh* since I can't change that, I'll concentrate on cookies...

These are the first of MANY red, white and blue cookies to come in the weeks leading up to the fourth!  It's going to be a lot of fun, so get ready to DECORATE!

Oh yes, and if you are into the theme thing, you HAVE to see these BOMB POP cupcakes that my friend Kristan made.  How's THAT for a par-tay?!