Happy Poppin' Holidays!

Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. This is also the time of year when people tend to let themselves indulge in life's wonderful delights. For example...CAKE POPS!! C'mon, just a couple of bites! Here are pics of the holiday sprinkled pops that are super yummy!

The most popular flavors seem to be Chocolate, Vanilla, Strawberry and Red Velvet. The Yellow Cake dipped in Chocolate with gold sprinkles...I call Golden Gate, is also a yummy one. Ah heck...they ALL taste great! Other flavors I have created (to remind you) include White Cake, Banana, Pumpkin, Lemon, and Chocolate Mocha. Let me know your pleasure! You'll have a nice holiday celebration with these unique treats on your Christmas table!

It's A Ghost and Pumpkin Kind-of Celebration

It's that time of year, yes. You saw my previous post about the basic cake pop with Halloween colors. It has been a little crazy busy at this time of year with lots of stuff going on with kids, family, home, blah blah blah. You know what I mean. Lucky for me, someone other than myself has a birthday close to Halloween...hence the celebratory cake pops or Ghosts and Pumpkins for a friend's son's young birthday.

I confess. I hated the Wilton's edible markers. Sorry Wilton. I've heard of other brands and need to seek them out- I think Americolor? Someone correct me if I'm wrong. For now, I just painted the faces on the pumpkins and ghosts using the dark chocolate candy melts. Not bad, I must say. It was quite fun at wee hours of the morning while watching Vampire Diaries!

For these cake pops, the request was strawberry cake. The party go-ers are sure to enjoy! Happy Birthday little man A!

Trick or Treat! It's Halloween Cake Poppin' Time!

I am a bit late...but here are my (so far) Halloween cake pop creations. There are SOOO many Halloween cake pops all over the internet and I have yet to try my creative hand at the witch, the werewolf, the eyeballs, frankenstein, etc., etc. BUT...here are some simple Halloween balls of sweet. I am testing out the Wilton brand edible markers on the pumpkins. Sorry, Wilton. Not like. I know there are a couple of other brands to try that I have read good reviews about: Americolor Edible Markers specifically. The Wilton ones were handy and easy to pick up at Michael's. Anyway, making the pumpkin faces was fun. I only did a couple. Stay posted for some more daring Halloween fun!

Tres Leches Cake Pop Tester

I know for all of you Tres Leches cake lovers, this is not your typical Tres Leches experience. That cake is usually moistened with a yummy sweet milky sauce underneath a creamy light frosting. I could not mimic that experience into a cake pop. However, I think I got the flavor down. Most feedback on this was that it was good tasting and sweeter than my normal cake pops. I chose the purple because I made these for my daughter's baptism and she happened to have some light lavendar floral designs on her baptismal dress. They are covered in a sugar crystal and white pearlized jimmies combination. (It's fun knowing the actual names of different sprinkles!)

Anyway, sorry...no leftovers. BUT...I'll let you know when the next Tres Leches roll-out is! Next up, Banana Cake Pops with coconut on the outside.

Thank you to my cake pop supporters!!

Chocolate & Candy Dipped Pretzels

Just adding to the sweet tooth repertoire. These are fun and easy to do. I had all the ingredients, so why not?! Made some for July 4th and other occasions. They are definitely yummy!

Carrot Cake Facelift

Just a quick share with my new look for Carrot Cake. It's basically an orange coating, vanilla flavored, covered in a sugar crystal and pearlized jimmies combo. Yes, the skinny sprinkles are called jimmies. Fun, eh? Carrot cake pops still seem to be one of the general favorites. As one friend said, carrot cake is not something you eat every day. So to get a nice couple bites of carrot cake heaven without having to use a plate and a spoon/fork is yummy!

Revisiting Past Creations

I've spent many hours over the past months, working on the craft of cake pops. Posted here are some pictures from my personal archives of the cake pops you haven't seen yet. The varieties are many. Some people like the crunch of the different sprinkle varieties, while some like the pretty swirl designs on the cake pops.

They all taste pretty good and I believe that with time and practice, they are only getting better. For the most part, I can create almost any cake flavor with a variety of color coatings, and with the sprinkle or design of your choice. Still fun! Still yummy!

Pictured:

Chocoholic

Strawberry Thrill

White Cake with Confetti Sprinkles

White Cake with White Swirl designs

Yellow Cake with Dark Cocoa and Confetti Sprinkles

Lemon Drop Pop

I love me some lemon cake. When I was pregnant with one of my children, I totally craved Lemon Bars and was very picky, too. Starbucks had THEE best lemon bar for me. Lemon cake also has to have just the right amount of tart to satisfy me. So far, the feedback on my Lemon Drop Pops has been good.

Nutty for Cake Pops

For peanut butter lovers out there, here is my experiment with using Wilton's Peanut Butter flavored candy melts. It's not TOO peanut-buttery. It's just enough to give you the peanut butter kick. On these cake pops, I used chocolate cake for the inside. The nut covered cake pop reminded me of the popular Payday Bar. I'm nutty for all kinds of nuts. For those with nut allergies, of course stay away.

Special Occasion Cake Pops

I am finding more and more that people do not know what cake pops are. I hope to be one who helps spread the word about such yummy treats. I also hope that I may inspire aspiring cake poppers, one individual at a time. These are treats for any and all occasions. They can be displayed in a variety of ways.

Pictured here is a combination of a cake pop trio that I prepared for a graduation. Red Velvet Delight, Simply Vanilla, and Chocoholic cake pops. The cake drops were packaged together: one of each flavor in the small bag.

Pictured also is something similar to a gift for the staff in the local elementary school front office during Administrative Professionals Week. They loved the cake pops! I gifted a variety of cake pops that included 3 flavors, as pictured above. It was easy to put the cake pops together in the small basket. By placing a floral foam block inside the basket, then putting the cake pops in one at a time, the display looked delicious and inviting.

Not Exactly Wedding Cake...Just Wedding Treats

If displayed properly, cake pops would be a nice alternative to a traditional wedding cake. For me, still making the cake pops simply...on a stick, in a bag, with a twisty tie...is my limit. I think I'll get to the point of where Heavenly Cake Pops is, but for now I'm still testing the waters. I did create the cake pops shown in the above pictures for a small wedding. The cake pops were a hit. Congratulations to the newlyweds! Love is in the air!

Red Velvet

Chocolate Mocha Almond

Strawberry Thrill

Easter Feature

I know it's late- way past Easter and Egg Hunting and Chocolate Bunnies. Life gets busy and the internet blogging has got to take a back seat. With a little time to breathe today, I can backtrack and post some delicious pops and drops I created for Easter last month. Still having fun. Still in the process of creating new recipes. Still delicious as ever! Wanna try??

Pictures in order above, top to bottom:

Carrot Cake Pops- White Coating with a variety of green & orange swirl designs

Vanilla Cake Pops- White Coating with Multi-colored sugar sprinkles

Red Velvet Cake Pops- Dark Cocoa with Red & White Sugar Crystals

Spice Cake Pops- White coating with Golden Sprinkles

16-Piece Assortment- Chocolate Mocha Almond, Vanilla, Spice & Red Velvet Cakes

Vanilla & Spice Cake Drops

8-Piece Assortment- same flavors as the 16-piece

Red Velvet Cake Drops

A Nice Duo- Strawberry & Spice

Now that I have shared samples with friends, many of my cake pops are irresistible. Simply, here is a two -flavor duo that a friend wanted. These are my cake drops which are smaller than the cake pop and just not on a stick. Just a couple of bites are needed to satisfy the craving!

Strawberry Cake- vanilla flavored pink coating with crunchy white sugar crystals

Spice Cake- vanilla flavored coating with golden sprinkles

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Batter Up! Baseball Cake Pops for a Birthday...

Happy Birthday, _ _ _ _ _ _! I shall keep the recipient anonymous...lol! Privacy issues on the internet, ya know.

This was a fun one. However, I must give huge kudos to my artistic husband. Making these cake pops is a family affair in this household. My husband is a great artist!

This is a duo set of cake pops, chocolate and white cake. I used red twisty ties for the chocolate cake pops and silver for the white cake pops. I also colored the bottom of the lollipop sticks of the chocolate cake pops with a brown Sharpie. Fun, fun, fun! Eat one of these cake pops and you hit a H-O-M-E-R-U-N!