St. Patty's Day & more

St. Patrick's Day cold coin Cake pops

Sprinkles galore!

Wow! It's been a LONG time since I last wrote but I have been busy with a new job and lots of playing with my daughter. I wanted to share with you what I created for St. Patty's day. I had an order for cake pops for a St.Patrick's day party, now I already knew I wanted to make gold coins so that is what I set out to do. I wanted to do a rustic flat coin so I made the shape and had all my items ready to do some tests (there is a reason you don't see the tests here), well the test did not turn out as well as I hoped. I was hoping that the shape would hold when I dipped them in the candy coating, well I was wrong, as I knew it they collapsed because the shape was so thin when I dipped them in the coating it fell apart, I could have made them thicker but it would just look weird.

       So I ended up just making your basic cake pop in a light yellow ( I mixed half white half yellow) candy coating, it turned out to be perfect because when I put them in the display they looked like gold coins anyway. I sprinkled a little Luster dust on them to make them look a little bit more shinny.
The party was a hit! and so were the cake pops!

Now the other picture you see is of some cake pops I made for my husbands work, it's a yellow cake with vanilla frosting dipped in a baby blue candy coating and sprinkled in flat sprinkles. I have some more cake pops coming so please look out for my next blog, until next time.

Valentine Pops

 Well another Valentines day has come and gone, I know I am a little late on this blog but better late than never I say. I have to say these were the some of the most interesting ones I have done, in terms of the shape. I admit that it all seemed easy on paper but you have to make sure that the bottom of the heart shaped cake pop (where the stick would go) is thick enough so that when it comes time to put the stick in it doesn't crack and you ruin your pops. I have to admit that this happened to me several times and I had to redo some, I also had made the hearts a lot bigger but when I tried to dip them and take them out they would break apart, so I made them smaller and more thick.

 

So in the end I came up with two ideas one small hearts and one coated in hearts, both ideas came out great. I had a few orders for valentines day and I think I did a pretty great job. I also got a Wilton Chocolate melting pot which made it much more easier to handle the candy coating, I highly recommend getting one of those so you don't have to deal with having to melt the coating every so often in the microwave. The pops in these pictures are Red Velvet for the hearts and Chocolate for the Spheres but both had pink vanilla candy coating.

Angry Birds!

Pigs and birds before dipping

Well they are here! and they came out great, I had a special order for Angry bird cake pops, I knew I could do it because I had made them before out of fondant but with that I made all the birds, had I had more time I could have made all the birds and blocks and eggs into pops...next time though. This order called for a vanilla cake and frosting, I shaped them and put them in the fridge for about 2-3 hours until they were a little firm, for the pigs it was different I had to shape the snouts and I used green sour apple gummies and shaped them as ears then stuck them into the cake shape, then put them into the fridge as well for a few hours, for the black hair and tail of the birds I used licorice and the eyebrows,eyes, beak and white chest I used fondant (It really is the only thing that works I noticed) and it gave me a chance to use my new black edible markers (love them!) I also used pearl dust to color the beaks orange. I would really love to to make more interesting cake pops like this it gives me a chance to show my artistic talents (being and art major).

Below are picture of the fondant Angry birds I made.

Angry birds on top of a birthday cake

Happy New year!

 Happy 2012 everyone! I wanted to show everyone some of the steps that makes a cake pop a cake pop. In these pictures I made a apricot cake with chunks of real apricot in it, I roll them into little bite size pieces and cool them in the freezer for about 10-15 min until they firm but not to firm. Then I dip them with the stick first in the candy coating and wait for the candy to harder, after that I usually dip them in candy coating. I love to test out sprinkles on cake pops and cup cakes ( as you can tell by the pic on the bottom left) and use my artistic background to see what kind of designs I can make.

 

Here comes Santa

Ok Well I know I am a little late in writing a Christmas cake pop blog but here it is anyways. I made candy cane cake pops with candy cane and sugar crystal sprinkles it was a big hit, I made sure that it was VERY minty because well it's candy cane so there you go. The second one I made and I thought it was cute as you can tell by the picture above, Santa Claus cake pops......that's right the big man's head, I decided to make him look old fashion like by swirling the icing for his beard and using a Hershey Kiss as his hat. They took me about 3 hours to make. In the end they all turned out great! New Years ones will be made this week and I can't wait!

Gingerbread Cake Ball samples

Ok so I was asked to make some sample cake pops, I'm trying to be "earth friendly" here so I decided instead of using sticks then have to buy more later (which can get pricey) I decided to make cake balls instead. I don't normally like making them because I think it makes more of a mess but I think I will make them for samples only.This was my first time making this specific flavor of cake pop, the result was very interesting, it's much more firmer than normal cake pops but if you use more frosting ( I used a french vanilla frosting) it obviously gets more soft ( I used a little less than normal) the pop or ball in this case came out to taste really good, like eating a gingerbread man with frosting and the sprinkles where his buttons. This is one I will make for Christmas dessert for sure.

Halloween and Fall

Now these are some pops I made for Halloween and Thanksgiving, I made a pumpkin spice cake with a cream cheese frosting, coated with milk chocolate and fall leaf candies. The bottom cake pops were made for my husbands work for Halloween, they are zombie monkey (a monkey being their work logo) with a red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting inside. I coated them using green candy coating and chocolate pieces, they turned out great and were a big hit!