Name: Nutter Butter Apple Pops
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: Nutter Butters; Wilton white (red, light cocoa and light green candy melts (green should be new bags the wafers are smaller to use for leaves)); Green lollipop sticks; Parchment paper; Decorating bag

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Around West Virginia, fall means apple harvest time! And these Nutter Butter apple pops are a fun way to celebrate!

Are you ready to make the easiest fall treats ever? They look like apple core pops, but they are made with Nutter Butter cookies. Kids love them and you will love how easily you can make enough for an entire classroom!

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The Perfect Fall Dessert For Kids

In West Virginia and around the eastern United States, the excitement of fall is all about the apple harvest! Did you know that Golden Delicious apples were first created in West Virginia? Yup! And there is even a Musselman high school. Sound like a familiar brand of apple sauce?

There are apple harvest beauty queens. Berkeley Springs has an Apple Butter Festival! And of course the huge apple harvest parade in downtown Martinsburg.

But the apples aren’t completely ready for harvest until later in September.

So while we wait, let’s make some fun apple-themed treats! No, they don’t have any apples in them. But they are decorated to look like apples. Aren’t they cute?

If you want apple desserts or snacks that are actually made WITH apples – I have a list of ideas at the bottom of this post.

Ways to Share the Nutter Butter Apple Pops

These apple pops are perfect for so many things. Need some ideas? Try making a batch for these occasions:

School lunch – these fit perfectly inside a lunch box if you skip the paper straw. Apples are often a fun back-to-school theme too, so your kids will love it.
Apple Harvest Festival – are you hosting a fall-themed party? What about going to a local apple harvest festival? Take these along or share them with your guests!
Fall parties – Since they have peanut butter, I’d be careful to take them to a school fall party. But if you are hosting one and know your guests don’t have allergies, they will be a cute hit!
Church Potluck
Bake Sales – They are so cute they will sell for sure! Just remember to label them as peanut butter so anyone with allergies knows before they make a purchase.

Things You Need Before You Make The Nutter Butter Apple Pops

Make sure you have these things on hand:

Nutter Butters
Wilton Candy Melts – white, red, light cocoa and light green. (green should be new bags the wafers are smaller to use for leaves)
Green paper straws
Parchment paper
Decorating bag

DIY Nutter Butter Snacks – Creative Apple Pops

Are you ready to make some fun nutter butter apple pops? I have step-by-step photos to help you along the way.

The Wilton candy melts make this entire thing a cinch. In fact, the most “difficult” part was piping the seeds. And that was like 4 dots.

Seriously, it’s incredibly simple.

1. Melt the Candy Seperately

First step is get all the ingredients together. Put each color of candy melt in a separate bowl.

In a small microwave safe bowl, heat 2 cups of the white, 2 cups of red and 1/4 cup of brown candy melts in separate microwave safe bowls on 50% power for 3-4 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until melted.

It’s important to stir every 30 seconds to prevent burning.

2. Add Sticks To Cookies

Now it’s time to make the pops part! You can skip this step if you aren’t making them into pop treats. They are super cute all on their own.

Carefully open an Nutter Butter, add a dollop of melted white chocolate and gently press a green lollipop stick onto the frosting side of the Nutter butter so the stick sticks out the top about 1/2” and carefully place the Nutter Butters back together.

Then place them on a parchment paper lined baking pan and transfer to the freezer for 5 minutes.

White Candy Coating on top middle to make apple core

3. Decorate The Apple Pops

Next, it’s time to decorate the core of the apple.

Hold the lollipop sticks over the melted white chocolate and coat the center with the melted white chocolate, let any excess drip off and set back onto the parchment paper and into the freezer for another 5 minutes.

See the pattern? After every decorating step, freeze them for 5 minutes. It is what will help your candy coating look the best, so don’t skip this part.

Now you just need some red candy melt to make the apple top and bottom.

Hold onto the lollipop stick over the red chocolate and coat the top and bottom of the Nutter Butter with red chocolate, let any excess drip off and place onto a piece of parchment paper and transfer to the freezer for 15 minutes.

Yes, 15 minutes. You want them in there longer because you have even more candy melt on there.

4. Pipe The Apple Seeds

This is perhaps the most difficult part, piping the apple seeds. Before you start the piping, cut the green candy melts in half, dip them in a teeny bit of the melted red candy and place them on top. Voila! You have the cutest apple stems!

In a small microwave safe bowl, heat 1/4 cup of your light cocoa candy melts on 50% power for 2-3 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until melted, pour into a decorating bag and cut a tiny tip off the end of the bag.

Then, Use your decorating bag of light cocoa candy melts to draw 4 tiny seeds onto the white center of the apple.

Finally, put them back in the freezer to harden one last time. And there you have it! The cutest Nutter Butter Apple Pops EVER!

Nutter Butter Substitute

If you think someone has a peanut allergy, then you might want to make these pops out of something else. I suggest using Biscoff cookies. Then, use Biscoff cookie butter in the middle of the two cookies. It has a similar shape and you can still decorate the cookies to look like apple cores!

Want the printable recipe? Here you go!