Cute and Easy Monsters Inc Marshmallow Pops!

Decorating is not my strong point. I can map it out in my head and imagine step-by-step on how to make my idea a reality. Then when it's time to execute, I fail. By failing, I mean I fail miserably. Once I tried to decorate my Mom's birthday cake. It was a chocolate cake with chocolate cream filling and chocolate ganache frosting. (My mom is a HUGE chocolate fan clearly). All I wanted to do was just layer the cake and frost it. Somehow I messed this up and it ended up looking something like this. 

(My cake actually looked worse than this. Yikes.)

We had a good laugh and ate the cake anyway. It tasted sooooooo good despite its really sad appearance. 

Anyway when my family was in town a month before my son's birthday, we decided to have his his party a tad bit early so he could celebrate with his Nana,Papa and Uncles. This was so last notice that I couldn't order a cake. I mean I could have from Walmart but I was never a big fan of their cakes. So I aspired to make this the best party ever on a 48 hour notice. 

Enter these marshmallow pops. 

These were so easy to make! They also didn't turn out too bad looking! Not as bad as the cupcakes I made anyway.

Here is what you need:

1 bag of green candy melts (I bought them at Michael's)

1 bag of blue candy melts 

1 bag of white candy melts 

Purple food coloring

1 bag of big Marshmallows

Unused new paintbrush

Candy eyes (I found these at Walmart near the cupcake decorations)

Cake pop sticks 

Styrofoam block (to stabilize the finished pops while cooling)

How to make Mike Wazowski:

• Get a microwave safe bowl and melt your chocolate in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir chocolate around and put it back in for another 30 seconds. Repeat this process until the chocolate is smooth.
• Grab a cake pop stick and dip one end into the chocolate. Take a marshmallow and stick it on the end you dipped into the chocolate. Make sure not to poke through the other side!
• Dip marshmallow into chocolate and with the help of a spoon, cover the whole marshmallow. 
• Press one candy eye in the center of the marshmallow
• Stick into the Styrofoam block so they can cool upright without getting messed up!

How to make Sully:

• Follow the same process as above only with the blue candy except do not put a candy eye on Sully! 
• Once blue marshmallow pop is dried melt your white candy melts. When chocolate is smooth add a few drops of purple food coloring until you get the color of Sully's spots. Mix the coloring well. 
• Take your paintbrush and paint on spots all around the pop. 
• Stick the pop into your Styrofoam block to cool and harden. 

You can make these the day before, just make sure you cover them in plastic!

Hope you guys enjoy this!