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!
