These Gold Glittery Unicorn Suckers are This Summer’s Perfect Treat

I can’t contain myself. These gold glittery Unicorn Suckers are this summer’s Perfect treat.

They’re so easy to make, super sweet, and tiny–so they’re not a ton of sugar…well, unless you eat 10.

These Gold Glittery Unicorn Suckers are This Summer’s Perfect Treat

I don’t know why I’m obsessed with unicorn food.

There’s just something about the idea of snacking on a little rainbow unicorn cheesecake or unicorn pudding pops is just kind of giggle-making.

But, of all the fabulous unicorn treats, these gold glittery unicorn suckers are this summer’s Perfect treat.

They’re super easy to make, the kids can help, and they’re just really simple.

Making these unicorn suckers is so simple, in fact, that I made them with the kids.

Not the cooking part!

But they helped pour the corn syrup into the pot.

And, when I was ready for the sugar, they helped with that, too.

Although I could have done without the spillage on the floor, but that’s ok. LOL!

See? No kids hands in the cooking.

The unicorn suckers mixture gets hot–it has to reach 300-degrees (the “hard crack” state) and kids don’t need that.

But! They did help put the gold sprinkles into the mold.

I grabbed this cute “prancing unicorn” mold at my local craft store–and the gold sprinkles too. LOL!

Once the boiling unicorn suckers mixture reaches 300-degrees with your candy thermometer, you’re ready to go!

But, if you don’t have a candy thermometer (like me), you can check to see if the mixture is ready by just drizzling a little into a glass of room temp water.

If you can pick up and break the mixture, it’s ready. If its still gummy, keep cooking.

Once my unicorn suckers mixture was ready, I added white food coloring.

It didn’t need a lot to make it pretty opaque and white–since the mixture is clear. But if you wanted pink or whatever, you can do that instead.

Then I just poured the mixture into the unicorn mold, on top of the sprinkles.

I tried to be generous, because the mixture can shrink a little when it cools.

Then, while the mixture was still hot, I just pressed cake pop sticks into the back of the unicorns.

I had to adjust them a couple of times while the unicorn suckers cooled, basically just re-press them in, but they were just fine at the end.

Then, when they were completely cooled (which you can just pop them into the freezer for 10 minutes or leave them out on the counter for 2 hours, whatever), they just pop right out.

I let the kids pull them out–but didn’t get pictures because it was so fast!

That silicone mold is really nice for getting things out…

And, the best part?

They’re now the kids’ favorite treat.

Isn’t that sweet?!

Ok, so you’re so down for making these unicorn suckers, but you’re all out of gold sprinkles?

No sweat!

Just pin this recipe to your favorite unicorn food board on Pinterest so you can find it again when you’re ready!

Oh, and don’t forget to drop a 5-star rating on the recipe if you love these unicorn suckers as much as we do!