Alligator Cookie Pops

• 12 circus peanut candies
• 14 lollipop sticks
• 1 package (14 ounces) green Wilton candy melts
• 12 Nutter Butter cookies
• 24 miniature semisweet chocolate chips (about 1/2 teaspoon)
• 24 semisweet chocolate chips (about 1 tablespoon)
• 1/3 cup white baking chips, melted
• 1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted

1. Cut a slit in each circus peanut, forming a mouth. Using two lollipop sticks, prop mouths open. Let stand for 30 minutes.
2. In a microwave, melt candy melts; stir until smooth. Twist apart cookies. Dip the end of a lollipop stick into melted coating and place on a cookie half; replace cookie top. Repeat. Place pops on a waxed paper-lined
3. ; refrigerate for 10 minutes or until set.
4. Meanwhile, dip a circus peanut in coating and allow excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper. Repeat with remaining circus peanuts; let stand until set.
5. Reheat candy melts if necessary; dip a cookie pop in coating and allow excess to drip off. Insert stick into a styrofoam block to stand. While wet, position a coated circus peanut on the cookie for a head. Repeat.
6. For eyes, attach a miniature chocolate chip to each chocolate chip using melted white chips. Attach to head using melted chocolate. Using remaining melted chocolate, pipe nostrils onto faces; pipe teeth with melted white chips. Let stand until set.

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Taken from www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/alligator-cookie-pops/ (may not work)