Chocolate Covered Oreos… With Hello Kitty

In April our youngest daughter will be turning one, and I guess it’s time to start thinking about her first birthday party.  I think every first birthday is super special (heck, every birthday for that matter – I mean I’m always up for cake!), but Grace’s feels a bit more so.   Grace came to our family through the miracle of open adoption.

Anyone who has dealt with infertility or been on the adoption journey knows it’s a long and emotional one, and some days I still can’t believe that this beautiful, healthy and happy little sweetheart is our daughter.

Anyways, so it will be a big celebration, and the only thing I know for sure is the colors will be orange, pink and yellow.    Looking in my baking cabinet today I thought it might be a good idea to start trying out ideas for treats for her party.   I decided to go with chocolate covered marshmallow pops and chocolate covered vanilla oreo pops.

I started with dipping the sticks in chocolate and than popping them into the marshmallows.   I find that doing this, and letting the chocolate set up before dipping the entire marshmallow, makes it a bit more sturdy on the stick (and less likely to take a dive into your bowl of chocolate).

I took the oreos (well to be specific, the Trader Joe’s Joe Joe’s.  Yummy!) apart and put some chocolate inside to hold the sticks inside the cookies.

After that I put the top back on the cookies and let the chocolate set up before dipping the entire cooking into chocolate.

Yeah.  I think these are going to be cute.

The Hello Kitty sugar decorations kind of took them to a whole new level of cuteness.  Of course Hello Kitty does that with anything, at least in my opinion.  🙂

Chocolate covered marshmallow sweetness.

Chocolate dipped Oreo goodness.

Yay!  Oreos, chocolate and Hello Kitty.  I think that will work for a party.

I think that would make a cute little party favor.   Now, maybe I should taste test, I mean I don’t want people eating anything that I’m not 100% sure is delicious…