Patron Wedding Cake Pops

For my brother & sister-in-law's wedding, I made 200+ cake pops. Since Melissa & Jeff are famous for their drinking, and especially patron shot-taking, clothes stripping, pool jumping escapades, Patron & limes were the natural choice!

I started by shaping each cake pop by hand. For the patron bottles, I used a rounded, triangular shape. For the limes, I started with a circle and then chopped off part of the top using a rounded cookie cutter.

Next, I dipped the patron bottles in white chocolate, then attached the undipped ball of cake pop to the top. After that dried, I spray painted the bottles with Duff Graffiti spray in silver.










For the limes, I first dipped the pop in lime green chocolate and then pressed it into white sprinkles.

Then, I attached a label that I had printed on edible paper at a bakery nearby.

Lastly, the pops were wrapped in clear baggies with an iridescent twist tie, and then stuck with a sticker that I made using Avery gold labels.

We popped two pops into each hotel gift bag for a sweet treat for the guests!

Wedding Gift

For the newlyweds, a project inspired by something I saw on etsy/pinterest: first dance song lyrics in a love tree.

Class Parent Thank You Gifts

I had three wonderful class parents this year and to thank them at the end of the year, I made them bouquets of cake pops in little flower pots.

A peek at the process:

 Some extra goodies for the other first grade teachers!

Happy Mother's Day

Chocolate chip cookie dough cake pops & funfetti cake pops with pastel colors for all the pretty mamas!

happy hunger games!

cake pops for sarah's birthday

Scrabble Cake Pops for Mark's 30th

Special Order Cakepops

80 yellow chocolate and vanilla cake pops, individually wrapped.

on display: 

Organization Attempt #1

Hanging file folder organizer inspired by Remarkable Home

Instead of sewing like Remarkable Home suggested in her tutorial, I just stapled the edges together. I glued the tabs downward, but since my folders were kind of cheap (thank you, TJMaxx), they started to wrinkle. I used staples on the rest of the project (even on the ribbon!) and it seems to be strong enough. I embellished with some flowers and brads, but skipped the ribbon... no emergency trips to Michael's for grommets today!

My Birthday

Plain and simple sprinkles

and beautiful ballerina toppers on chocolate cupcakes made by Rachel:

Bee Bunch Cake Pops

These chocolate pops (apparently chocolate is not as big a hit as funfetti but I needed a change) were made for Brianne's 29th Birthday! I went with bumble bees because she performed earlier that night as Brianne & the Bee Bunch.

Elephant Funfetti Cake Pops!

Mom's surprise party. Had to run to Michael's in Queens to get grey food coloring. Of course they were out, so I got some black and mixed it with the white melting chocolate (Wilton). My family thinks they look like bats...

The noses are made by cutting up twisted pretzels and sticking them into the cake ball before freezing and dipping. The ears are made by smudging chocolate onto a flexible cutting board, freezing it, and then popping it off and cutting to size. This was really time consuming, but mom loves elephants!

Thanksgiving Treats

For Thanksgiving, I made another set of cakepops. My lovely sister bought me Bakerella's Cake Pop book and I spent about 6 hours creating these awesome pops- the turkeys were way too time consuming, but they came out adorably!

Since I had some extra cake left over from the cake pops, I decided to make a turkey cake to serve as well. We were having 30 people over, after all!

Shari helped assemble and frost this masterpiece. I feathered the frosting on the top by layering each different color and then dragging a toothpick through at random intervals. The top was made with halved reeses peanut butter cups stuck in using toothpicks. The body of the turkey is made from tinted Duff fondant.

I also spray painted a piece of wood to use as a stand, and then drilled holes into the top. Here it is in action:

And the rest of the cake pops:

 On the dessert table:

And in some little bellies:

Yum Yum Thanksgiving!

Halloween / Birthday Cakepops

To celebrate Jenny & Noa's birthday, I made about 60 cake pops! Orange and black for Halloween, purple for Jenny & pink for Noa.

These were displayed on a block of wood, which I wrapped in paper and drilled holes. I covered it with wax paper while I was working to prevent any drips, but they held up pretty well.

Toppings included candy corn, crushed kit kats, sprinkles, mini m&ms and mini reseeses. The insides were vanilla frosting and funfetti cake mix.

I also made some sugar cookies. I was going to attempt to decorate with royal icing, but that didn't pan out. I used my new cookie cutters though! Instead, I outlined using Wilton Gel Icing. It was sticky and messy and didn't dry before the party, and was still tacky and smudgeable the day after... oops.

Cake Pop Craze

First (well... second) try with cake pops for Melissa's birthday! They definitely get better from here...

Better display in process!