Cake Pops!

I am so excited to have discovered cake pops.  Although I wish I had been smart enough to come up with them I am content to make and eat them.  A lot of them.
Seriously, how amazing do these look.

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There are SO many cute ways to decorate them too!  I read recently in a blog that someone used them instead of a wedding cake, how smart!  I am jealous I did not have this idea as well.

Wednesday afternoon I had the privilege of watching a lady from my church decorate a cake!  Her name is Anna, and she makes THE cutest cakes for friends, family, and people from church.  Her cake-making started out just for family, but lately, she has been selling a ton of them!  What a fun way to make a little extra money.  I don't know how she does it with 3 kids under the age of 5 o_o.

Very impressive.  After learning so much from her, I REALLY had the itch to make a cake.


Thursday I decided to cave to my cake-baking-craving.  So in between washing clothes (thanks Phil and Ang!) , I baked a funfetti cake, and whipped up some buttercream frosting.   Finally, at around 4pm, I was done washing and began my cake decorating journey.
Unfortunately, I was a liiiittle too confident in my skills.  Lets just say I definitely do not know how to make a professional looking cake.

Problem(s)
1. I decided to dirty-ice (the first layer of icing, to make sure none of the crumbies will be on the final icing) with funfetti frosting.  It's a really delicious frosting, just not at all what you should use to dirty ice.  It's very heavy and gloppy and chunky because of all the rainbow chips in it.  I do not know what I was thinking.
2. Who tries to make a 9 by 13 in. cake into 4-tiered asymmetrical cake with no prior experience in making a 4-tiered or asymmetrical cake, this girl.  Enough said.
3. Funfetti cake, a cup of pudding in the mix!  A wonderful addition, unless you are trying to chop it up and not have it be sticky.  And falling apart in sticky chunks.
4. Arizona. I really do love the weather here. But the 90 degree heat does not help the whole melty, gloppy frosting situation.  I do not turn on the A/C.  I will not.  (Except when Dave gets home, he is a much bigger temperature baby).
So, after all my work and anticipation, my 4-tiered, asymmetrical cake became crumbs and blobs and a one tiered squared cake with WAY too much frosting.  No pictures taken.  It was just too embarrassing.  I may have been mildly depressed.

But then, I remembered Cake Pops! Crisis averted! I threw the rest of the three tiers, frosting and all into a bowl and mushed it up good.  Then I rolled that sugary goop into (kinda chunky) balls and let them cool in the freezer for a bit. (I am too impatient to wait for 2 whole hours in the fridge!)  Once they were cooled enough, I stabbed them with skewers and dipped them into white chocolate.  I'm not the biggest fan of white chocolate, but my thought was that if I used it, I might not eat as many cake pops.  Silly, I know.  May I say, they are delicious.  Even with white chocolate.  But, if I eat more than two I feel really sick haha.
Finished product!

awwwwwwwww.  Aren't they cute!  But, you can really see the chunks.  Whoops.
Ha, I found a picture of my cake.  Oh Boy.  Holy Frosting.

Hahaha.  I can't even handle it. 
So I will leave you with that :)

 Hope it's nice where you are!
Day 2 of blogging complete!  I can't say I am impressed with my writing quality,  but practice makes perfect right?