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I just made these for a St. Patrick's Day celebration at work and my co-workers LOVED them! They raved about them all morning. Don't pass these up because the recipe looks too complicated - it really wasn't that difficult. At first it was taking me a while to make the Tootsie Roll hatbands, but once I figured out my own system for doing it the work went by much faster. Next time I make these it likely won't take me nearly as long (in total, for my first time making these, I spent about three hours on them). Tips: - Add a little over 1/2 tsp. of mint extract to the frosting. - Microwave the Tootsie Rolls two at a time for only a few seconds, making them soft and bendable. I struggled trying to use a knife to cut the strips; when I used kitchen scissors I found it was MUCH easier and faster. - Microwave the frosting in small portions. I used store bought frosting and was afraid it wouldn't spread well since some reviewers here had had issues with it, but I found that if I microwaved only a couple of spoonfuls at once and then immediately poured it over the hats, it spread nicely (only a small amount of touch-ups were necessary). Also, this doesn't have to be as messy as it sounds. I set the cooled hats on aluminum foil and then went to town with the frosting. Really DRENCH the hats in it, then after the frosting has dried you can use a knife to cut around the edges, leaving the mess behind on the foil. Even "wasting" so much frosting like this, I still had enough to cover all of the cookies.

Working on these for my youngest sons class tomorrow...reading some of the reviews and wanted to mention that the recipe does say to put the marshmallow on when the cookies come out of the oven, helps them stick...and then the frosting goes over the marshmallow and cookie since they are now attached. Only problem I have had is the frosting setting too quickly...put the hats I wasn't happy with in the microwave for about 7 sec and they came out great! I'm going to "glue" on a coated chocolate candy with frosting instead of the gumdrop...couldn't find a bag with lots of green and didn't want to have all those other colors sitting around begging me to eat them!

I used decorator frosting for the hat bands. Worked great. Just have to make sure the frosting is heated enough so that you can drizzle over the whole marshmellow and cookie combination. On the few that I didn't have it melted enough, I had to work on spreading it out. Then left them set out overnight, so that the frosting would set up.