Strawberry Chocolate Cake Pop Hearts

Valentine's Day is coming up.  It used to be a day I really really hated.  I remember being in High School and getting jealous of all the girls and boys who would get roses from their secret admirers and boy/girlfriends.  The Student Council (or something) would sell them and usually do a love compatibility thingy. I always bought mine just see who it would pair me up with.  It was amusing because I'm pretty sure a lot of the people taking the quiz would lie thus making your matches questionable. 

I saw a facebook post, either from Duncan Hines or CandyQuick, stating that Frosting Creations flavor mixes could be used in chocolate melts without seizing up the product.  Intrigued I immediately rushed to the store to pick up a couple flavors to test out in some Wilton candy melts.

I made some heart shaped chocolate cake balls to coat in my flavored chocolate.  They were a pain in the butt.  For some reason they just didn't want to stay on their sticks (because I stuck them too far in).  Then after I got them coated and place in the holder, every single one toppled over.  Hooray for chipped candy coating.

On a positive note:  The candy melts didn't seize up and the coating tasted just like a strawberry candy.  I can't wait to try out other flavors in my candy melts to use in my cake pop makery.  What other cake and frosting creation flavors should I use?  Chocolate covered strawberry was a no brainier so maybe some thing a bit less traditional next time.

Oh yeah...now that I'm married, I love Valentine's Day.  Last year we went to Medieval Times and he bought me clearanced candy from Target the day after.   He spoils me rotten (and not just on Valentine's Day!) which is 10xs better than a stupid fake fabric rose.  Not that love should be about material things anyways but who doesn't like to be spoiled?

Also, I should let my husband start editing these posts.  The original title: Starwberry Cape Pops.  * le sigh*

Wild Animal Cake Pops

One of my courthouse acquaintances asked if I could make jungle animals for a child's birthday party. Challenge...accepted!

Some of these animals don't live in a jungle. I know this. How could I not make a giraffe or hippo though? They are the best animals to visit at the zoo according to me and my Mom. Penguins too according to the hubby but I'm pretty sure penguins could never qualify as jungle animals unless they are the ones that got shipwrecked on that island in the movie Madagascar. "Just smile and wave, smile and wave"

Tiki Cake Pops

Recently my roommate had to leave us for a little bit.  Poor baby had to take a trip to Hawaii to visit family.  I'm pretty sure he had a good time.  I know I would if I wasn't insanely afraid of volcanoes.  Volcanoes give me the heebie-jeebies.  Ever watch Dante's Peak?  Yeah, highly improbable and inaccurate but that moves scares the crap out of me!  So now I have a fear of volcanoes.  And fire. And dying by volcano and fiery hot lava.  Very irrational.

Olympic Cake Pops: The Rings

Last blogisode I presented my Olympic Cake Pops and showed you how to recreate the Olympic Torch in edible form. Today I'll show you how I made some Olympic Rings for my cake pops.

Olympic Cake Pops: The Flame

I keep seeing fun party and game ideas for celebrating this year's Summer Olympic Games.  I wish I could be in London to see my favorite events but I don't even have a passport so that's not going to happen.  Also, I'm pretty sure that just purchasing the plane ticket would bankrupt me.  No.  I'll just sit back in my comfy armchair, in the A/C, with cake pop in one hand and remote in the other.  Entertain me, Olympians!

My favorite part of the Olympic games is the opening ceremony when they light the cauldron of flame (Fire! Fire!Fire! heh,heh,heh).  It's always done in some insanely spectacular way and it amazes me that it travels all the way from Greece to wherever the games are held that year.  Wouldn't be amazing to get to run that torch through your town?  I hear it's pretty heavy but what an honor!  My luck I'd go out as soon as grabbed it, lol!

Ladybug Cake Pops

I was asked to make some ladybugs for a little girls birthday party. I saw a lot of cute ideas for making these in the blogospere. It was really hard to decide what technique to use for the little dots. Some people used mini chocolate chips and sprinkles but I couldn't find the mini chips. Also my customer wanted some pink and purple ladybugs too so using chocolate chips wasn't going to work!

Happy 4th!

Firecracker Cake Pops

Yum! More cake pops! I was feeling inspired by all the red, white and blue at the stores and sculpted some firecrackers in honor of the 4th of July. 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays and my favorite part is watching all the fireworks.

Angry Birds are Angry

After making my Avenger themed cake pops I was asked if I could make some Angry Birds. If you haven't played the game you've probably at least heard of it (unless you live under a rock). The game is very cute and the birds were for a birthday party. I have seen a lot of Angry Bird party ideas on Pinterest so I figured it wouldn't be hard to find some inspiration for these pops.

Sure enough I found a whole Angry Bird cake pop tutorial on the blog The Girl Who Ate Everything. She used a lot of black licorice which I decided, at first, to try to avoid. Unfortunately my alternate ideas sucked. I really hate the taste of black licorice and figured most children do to. Oh well. They look cute and I figured it could be picked off it really was unpleasant.

Avenger Themed Cake Pops

After passing out those Pinkie Pie cake pops around my workplace the word got out that I like to bake and decorate. One of my co-workers, MG, asked me if I could make her some cake pops for an Avengers themed birthday party. I love getting paid to be creative so I immediately said yes. She bought me the supplies and I brought my creativity!

She just wanted a simple cake pop with sprinkles and the ones she brought me we're very cute. I especially love the star sprinkles! I also happened to buy a silicone ice cube mold at Target that had star shapes. She didn't request but 24 round cake pops but I had some leftover cake mixture and decided to experiment with the star shapes.

Pinkie Pie Cake Pops

I finally decided that if Pinkie Pie were going to throw me a party she would definitely make me cake pops.  I've never made cake pops but I have been following Bakerella for sometime and she makes it seem so easy.  She's right they are easy.  They just take time, patience and a bit of creativity.  Since this was my first time making cake pops I decided to keep it simple but flavorful.