Playing Catch-Up

I've been making cake balls/ cake pops for just under a year now. I've taken photos of them along the way but never had a place to showcase them other than Facebook. I decided that this post would be dedicated to showing off what I've done in the past so that I can go forward and show you what I'm doing now.

My first ever attempt was Valentine's Day of 2009. My husband was out for the day (really I told him to go out and not come home until a certain time) and I had wanted to surprise him. I made a strawberry cake and home-made cream cheese frosting. I bought a medium sized candy box and lined the individual slots with mini cupcake wrappers. This is what they ended up looking like:

I used milk chocolate melts and decorated using purple and pink chocolate. In hindsight, the strawberry cake and the milk chocolate were a little too sweet together. Next time I use a super sweet cake I'll be sure to use dark chocolate.

My next experiment with cake balls wasn't until May. Friends of my in-laws are very involved with the American Cancer Society and put together a Relay For Life Team. As a member of this team, I wanted to bring something to snack on or even give to other participants at the event. Again, I was inspired by Bakerella and decided to make cupcake balls dipped and decorated in the ACS colors. When I got to my in-laws' house and showed my mother-in-law, she insisted on a photo shoot. Honestly, I was so thrilled with how they looked I was ecstatic that she wanted to photograph them.

See how nicely they posed? They were a huge hit at the relay.

And again, months passed before I made cake balls again. This time, I decided I'd try doing cake pops. Not an easy thing to do when you have no idea how to make things small enough to stay on a stick yet big enough to decorate.

The Jewish New Year gave me my chance to try out cake pops. Since part of the tradition is to eat apples and honey as representation of a sweet year to come, I made cake apples. I used red and green candy melts, pretzel rods for stems and since I didn't have diamond shaped sprinkles, I used Christmas trees for the leaves. I don't think they turned out half bad.

 

In early October I was involved in a bake sale to support the National Kidney Foundation of Greater New York's Kidney Walk. I made 166 (yes, I counted) red and orange cake pops to sell. They were an instant hit and sold in a flash.

The latest round of pops that I made were for my sister-in-Law (the same one who introduced me to Bakerella) and her husband. They recently got married and their rehearsal dinner was on Halloween. What could be more appropriate than making ghosts, jack-o-lanterns and pumpkins?

No mouth ghosts

Ghosts with a mouth

Pumpkins

 

And jack-o-lanterns

So ends my trip down cake ball/pop memory lane. Upcoming will be my Thanksgiving Turkey pops, winter penguins, and the multitudes of cookies that are in process and I type this post.

Oh, my photos will be a lot better from here on out. These were pretty much all taken (with the exception of the Valentine's Day truffles and the Relay For Life cupcake balls) on my cell phone.

Thanks for stopping by.

FatCat