Happy Easter!

Hello again! Today I decided to do some cake pops straight outta the book by Bakerella for Easter -- Chickies and Eggs! 

I was excited for these!  I have to say, though, these took me about 5 hours to perfect.  Simple cake pops with just candy coating and sprinkles take about 2 hours to do.  But these Easter Chickies and Easter Eggs were very detailed and required many steps. 

On the inside of the pops is simple vanilla birthday cake.  They came out gorgeous!  Below are some pics of the cake balls (before they become pops) and the finished product.  You also get a glimpse of my secret weapon -- a miniature cookie dough scoop that helps me produce uniform cake balls.  I don't know what I'd do without it!

Happy Easter everyone!!!

Red Velvet Cake Pops

Now, I personally don't "get" Red Velvet.  WHAT is Red Velvet?  Is it chocolate?  Is it red?  About how much red dye is in this stuff?  Is it turning my insides red???

At any rate, these were made using Red velvet cake, cream cheese frosting, White candy coating and red sanding sugar.

Now, I have to admit, I was a bit nervous to make these.  Red Velvet cake, by definition, is always very greasy.  And this is not good because excess oil/grease tends to seep out thru the candy coating and create little balls of oil on top of the cake pop.  And this can look ugly.  So I did what I always do and reduce the oil in the cake mix recipe to only 2 tbsp.  They turned out delicious and my co-workers sure did love them!

Valentine's Day Cake Pops

As I stated before, Birthday cake flavored pops are my absolute favorite.  I used a simple Vanilla cake recipe and dyed the cake batter pink using about 30 drops of red food coloring.  I then rolled the cake balls and used Red, Pink, Violet and White candy melts.  I sprinkled them all with several varieties of sprinkles and sanding sugars.  I had some help with these cake pops... Thanks Lori and Serena!

Carrot Cake Pops

These were not my favorite to make.  I made them because someone at work requested them.  I used standard carrot cake mix blended with cream cheese frosting, coated with White candy coating and orange colored sanding sugar.  Carrot cake, along with Red Velvet cake, can get VERY oily/greasy, so, as per my Top 4 Tips, I only used 2 tbsp. of vegetable oil when baking the cake. People at work liked them, but again, not my favorite.