For An All-American Kid...Happy Birthday, Reed!

Happy 9th Birthday, Reed! I hope you enjoyed your Birthday Treats!

This assortment of cake pops were created as a gift for a friend's son's birthday. I love the opportunity to be creative with the ingredients I already have. I have sprinkles, jimmies, non-pareils,  and sugar crystals in an assortment of colors. I also have the larger "balls" you see in the pictures which are considered sugar pearls. You actually see three different sizes in the picture below. The little ones are called non-pareils. The other ones are just two different sizes of the sugar pearls for which I had to go to two different locations to find!

Pictured are the 5 different ways I used the Red, White and Blue theme. First, there is the cake ball dipped in red with white non-pareils. Then there is the one dipped in red with just sugar crystals on top and then a sapphire blue sugar crystal sprinkled as a ring around the cake pop. Those were Strawberry Cake Pops. The beautiful bold blue candy melts turned out to be very nice. There is the blue with just the white pearlized jimmies. There is the blue with an orbit of large sugar crystals around the cake pop, then topped with a red swirl. Then there is the blue with the larger white sugar crystals with a red drizzle on the under part of the cake pop. THAT was a fun one to create. The blue ones were Vanilla Cake Pops.

 

The birthday boy is fond of sports so I figured an All-American All-Stars kind of theme for the decor. In addition, Independence Day is just around the corner.

I typically wrap each cake pop individually unless it is specifally requested to NOT do so. I order these 4 X 5 cello bags by the 5000Q from Uline and the bags end up being less than one cent a piece. You just have to order that many and remember where you keep them! Hahaha!

Thirteen: The Magic Teenager Number!

Oh the teenage years as they approach! These fun cake pops were created for a friend's son who just turned the ripe young age of 13....an official teenager!  The colors of these cake pops were selected to match the hostess' party bag selection (which I do not have a picture of), but I was told Pink & Orange and Green, with Blue & Red. So, voila! C'est magnifique!

I did my best with what I had. Wilton's makes a Royal Blue and a Light Blue Candy Melt and the Royal Blues worked perfectly here. I like to use the sugar crystals when I can, too, because they add a little crunch to the cake pop which provides a nice texture upon biting! But I also love to do little designs like the ones shown above. For the different designs, I use a squeeze bottle that Wilton's makes. I simply place the candy melts in the squeeze bottle and let the bottle sit in a coffee mug of hot water- sort of double boiler style. I'll video share that with you one day!

This was a fun project. The cake pops pictured here are Red Velvet and Carrot Cake Pops. I wrap my cake pops individually in a 4 x 5 inch cello bag, and use twisty ties to close them up. Many times I use twisty ties to identify flavors. For these ones, I used red twisty ties for Red Velvet and gold twisty ties for Carrot Cake. Thanks for checking out my blog!

Happy Birthday Treats for a Young Lady

These treats come direct to a young lady I've known for a few years. She just finished high school and has all the makings of a whatever she wants to be as she enters the post high school world. I was happy to create some custom cake pops for her. I did have to special order teal colored sprinkles to match the color motif of her celebration. My pleasure to do it for her! Happy 18th Birthday, Mocha and Congratulations on graduating from high school. You have the world at your fingertips!