Hello Cake Pop

Can you believe its February already??? I can’t believe it. I had all of these plans for elaborate blog posts in 2016 but do you know what happened? I got busy with Christmas Craft orders and enjoying the holidays and quite frankly enjoyed not spending much time on the computer and social media. So it’s taken me a while to get into the groove. For those of us who post, you know how much time and effort goes into the even smallest post and for those of you who don’t believe me, it’s more work than it looks. Since we didn’t have a New Years’ update let’s talk about my plans for the year. Yes Blogging was one of them although it wasn’t my top priority. With working full time and a busy toddler and not to mention dinner and laundry, I like to spend what little spare time I have doing what I enjoy the most which is crafting. So my top goal for this year was to create which I have been doing, my second goal was to use the plethora of crafting materials that I have while learn new skills, thirdly I am trying to reduce our family spending for my long/short term goal of getting a more functional home in a better school district, so I’ve been giving out handmade gifts which helps with a few of my goals at once. (For those of you who’ve gotten handmade gifts from me, you’re welcome, save them, they will be worth millions in a few centuries. LOL) The final goal was to be more consistent with my monthly kid’s classes which I have. Overall I feel more relaxed since taking a Social Media break. In my head I know that more time in front of the PC could help me achieve my other goal of crafting full time but I also know that I am more relaxed when I take a break and spend more time outdoors or even on my couch with a needle and thread. Maybe I can craft in one of those cute refurbished trailers in my backyard filled with flowers and trees, in my next home and you can come over and create with me.

 

Januarys kids craft class was snowman cake pops. We had a full class of which was great. I know I don’t post pictures of the students… I have release forms but I just don’t feel comfortable… But you can always use your imagination and imagine some happy kids stuffing their faces with loads of sugary products. LOL

 To make the cake pops we used the Baby Cakes Cake Pop Maker. It makes 12 evenly round cake pops at a time in only 4 minutes. I used the recipe that is included in the box for vanilla cake pops. The recipe is uses very basic ingredients so you can whip it up in a flash.

I find that a box cake mix isn’t as thick and doesn’t cook as well. Once the cake pops were baked, we let them sit for a while and used Wilton Candy Melts, Sprinkles, and candy eyes to decorate. WARNING WARNING these were sweet as hec like way too sweet, like what time are these kids getting picked up sweet, but the kids loved them. The cake pops themselves were perfect, it’s the other stuff that made it sugar tastic. I haven’t figured out how to make them less sweet, maybe use less sprinkles, but I made one for my son and threw it out immediately. Don’t worry he doesn’t know. LOL

Here’s everything that we used to make this class a success.

Baby Cakes Cake Pop Maker

Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer Glass Bowl

Wilton Candy Melt, White

Wilton White Sparkling Sugar Sprinkles

 

 

Pic of my students work… well what remained after I told them they could eat them. Each student made 2 cake pops one to eat and the other to take home or not, I let them decide.

Feel free to make some of these yourself just hold off on some of the sugar. If you are in my area and want to contact me about classes leave a note below.

 

~Darley