We enjoyed a joint birthday party today for Seth and Eliza.
Many discussions went on over the last couple months about what cake to make. After making the rainbow cake and giant cupcake last year, I was hoping to find something equally cool.
At first Eliza settled on a flower cake, but then modified to want a butterfly cake. So, I started perusing the web to find the perfect one. While doing that I ran across something called cake pops. Seth decided frog cake pops sounded great and I was excited to have an excuse to try them out! So I tried to capture a few of the steps involved.
I like to add food coloring to cakes. It makes cutting into them a little more fun.
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After baking the cakes, I crumbled one of them up in a bowl, stirred in some frosting, and started rolling them into balls for the cake pops!
Next, I dipped the lollipop stick in a little melted candy (like almond bark) and inserted it into the cake ball. Then, out to the cold cold deck to firm up. Those cake pops went from room temperature to below freezing in no time!
Fortunately we don’t have many wild animals venturing up on our deck, or this could have been a big disaster. The garage or freezer would have worked as well, I suppose, but not nearly as much entertainment as this snowy deep freeze.
See?! There are advantages to living in Minnesota!
Then comes dipping them in the candy melts, which I got from Jo-Ann’s. You can buy them in all different colors. I also got some edible markers that were a bust. They worked on a few of them, but it was like using a pen that was running out.. only the marker wasn’t running out, it just didn’t like the candy melt texture. I ended up piping frosting on, instead of using the markers.
Of course, I had a helper in all this. It wasn’t like I had to brave these things on my own. I like to call her my hip helper. There’s a double meaning in that.
Eliza was in charge of decorating her butterfly cake.
Nice work girl!
And Seth and Elianna’s job was to give these frog’s their eyes.
Good job!
I had some un-popped cake pops left over, so during the party I convinced some people to try their hand at it. I knew they’d have some good ideas!
They came up with: a minion from Despicable Me, a chicken, a few weird looking dudes, and I tried my hand at hello kitty.
But I must say that some of the party guests were simply ruthless. You wouldn’t expect such behavior from your own mother. She seems so innocent.
But don’t be fooled. She’s just luring you in. Be afraid. Bea very afraid..
Ahhhh! Run away! Run away! Run away and go try these cake pops. They are a blast. And if you really want to see how it’s done, check out Bakerella. That’s where I got all my ideas and inspiration.
Who knew I’d be one to like making cakes? That said, no guarantees for all the coming years. Store-bought can be a life-saver! No shame in that, my friends!
Such fun! I’ve heard of cake pops, but haven’t tried them. Looks like they were a hit!
Thanks for sharing! Looks so fun and I’ve never heard of those cake pops – we’ve got a lot of birthdays around here, too. Sometimes we are inspired and might try them out. Happy Birthdays!
Ahem! At leat it was a silent scream…Yum. Fun day!
Sara, you should try them! Your kids would come up with all kinds of silly, fun ideas! If you do try them, get the 6-inch popsicle sticks and if you want to use a marker or pen, get the edible pens that Bakerella recommends. They’re expensive, but apparently they work (I wouldn’t know, because I got the Wilton brand edible markers, a bust!) Or just use frosting and pipe what you want on, perhaps a little more time consuming, but fun and much cheaper.
And you can get creative with candy and use the almond bark as glue to get the candy to stick to the pops. Be sure and take pics! :)
Madelyn was WAY impressed with the Hello Kitty one! Looks like fun! Happy birthday Seth and Eliza – we miss you all!
I’m inspired! So so cute!
Lisa,
Elianna requested the Hello Kitty one, so I gave it a try! It definitely made me think of Madelyn.. tell her we say hello, especially Elianna. We miss you all too. Praying for you and that newest babe.
Abigail
You mentioned using 6 in. popsicle sticks. Did you use those or do you think that they would work better than what you used?
Lynette,
I used the 6-inch ones. I think the 4-inch ones would be too short. You may be able to get even longer ones. The 6 inch ones were available and inexpensive, though, and I thought looked about right.
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