For Beez

Long before I knew Melanie, she was given the nickname Beez. I'm not sure why or how she got the name, but I've wanted to make some cake pops for her and thought this was the perfect way to do it....

 

 

Candy melts for the wings, jimmy sprinkles for the antenna, small round sprinkles for the eyes, black candy gel for the stripes, and an edible pen to make the smile.

 

 

Of course I needed to make a few flowers for the Bumbles!

 

Oh, and I put a chocolate chip on the back for a little stinger :)

 

Soccer!

Happy Birthday to my Friend Mike and his love of Soccer!

 

 

My first time making and using marshmallow fondant! It worked great for the small pentagons :)

 

I added a few red and yellow pentagons for Mike's team. Go Deutschland!

 

To finish the soccer balls off I placed them in a box with some green "grass" and that was it.

 

Tree Cake Pops!

 I celebrated Andy and Laura's marriage through cake-pop in honor of their wedding theme, the Aspen Tree.

How does an Aspen tree turn into a cake pop?

 Based on the wedding colors I had gray cake pops decorated with bright green leaves. Also I decided to toss in a couple bright pops sprinkled with red, pink and white mini-hearts.

Here are the finished trees.

 I made the leaves by coating real aspen leaves with candy melts dyed to a green color. (Thanks to my sisters who help hunt down the Aspen trees in my area.) Once the coating was hard and dry, I peeled the leaves from the coating and wah lah!

I was amazed how well the candy coating picked up the features of the leaves. I think they turned out wonderfully :)

The actual trees were purchased from a craft store. I had planned on making my own, but how could I pass up a perfect pre-made foam tree?

Here are a few more pictures, enjoy!

Thanks to Linda and Melissa for the help and added inspiration :)

Cat Fundraiser Cake Pops

I made some cute kitty cake pops for a local animal rescue that was doing a cat fundraiser. Check out the rescue at http://homewardboundrescue.com/

Here is a nice pic of the hello kitty pops...I couldn't resist making these :)

 I decided to try something new with this batch of pops by making cookie pops. Hello Kitty if filled with a delicious mix of Oreo cookie and cream-cheese frosting, yum.

I also made some calico cats since my little kitty Kirara is a calico! I filled these cats with homemade chocolate chip cookies and a little frosting to keep them soft and chewy like they were fresh out of the oven. 

And here are a couple black cats...I even made some look furry.

The black cats were the classic cake pop made of homemade rich chocolate cake and frosting, so good!

So I packed up all the cat cake pops into fun boxes and wrapped then in a cute paw print ribbon.

I knew some people wouldn't know exactly what a cake pop is so I prepared a small display basket of the cat cake pops to wet peoples appetites, mmm!

I was able to bring 3 boxes of cake pops to the auction. Here they are on display, and they all went!

Thanks to Homeward Bound Rescue for letting me donate my cake pops

and to my friends Mike & Megan.