A little help goes a long way

I recently bought the Babycakes Chocolatier at the local Kohls. I had wandered in over a week ago looking for a double boiler. Unfortunately, they had none and I stumbled upon the section of Babycakes products and seen the chocolatier. I did another look around for a double boiler just incase I had missed one. Then I went back and stared at the box, opened the box, looked inside and placed the box back on the shelf. After a few seconds I decided to get it.

I placed the candy melts inside and plugged it in. It took a while for them to melt, around 30 minutes.

After I got the right consistency I was ready to dunk the cake balls in. I liked how it kept the chocolate warm and I didn't have to worry about it getting too thick. I did remove the ceramic pot from the base before I did my dunking. I noticed it was too hot if I just left it in the base. Since I had my cake balls in the refrigerator I had to take them out 5 minutes prior or I would have horribly cracked cake pops.

Here is a close up of one of the cracked cake pops. I had 3 of these in the second batch I made.

The first batch of cake pops I made were red velvet and covered in sprinkles. These didn't crack. I read online that air bubbles can cause cracking and I think the sprinkles helped prevent air bubbles in the chocolate.

My second batch of cake pops were vanilla flavored. I did a cute design with butterflies that I made from a chocolate mold.

I made the cake pops for a 5 year-old's birthday party. She adored them and they were a huge success.

Baking is so much fun

It's been a while since I last posted in here. I haven't been baking much this year since I've been busy with work and school. So here are some of my baked creations that I have made since I last posted in here.

Sugar cookie pops for a Willie Wonka theme at work for Halloween. It was my first time making cookie pops and I had a lot of fun. Very simple to do except when I was trying to make the icing colors real bright and dark. I had to use a lot of icing color gel, especially to make red. But it was a huge success!

I made these adorable football themed cupcakes for my co-worker's son's birthday bash. They were chocolate chip flavored and a big hit. It was tedious piping the green grass but it was worth it. The footballs were made out of chocolate from a football mold.

I made these orange marmalade cupcakes for fun oneday. I got the recipe off of Martha Stewart's website. I made a cocoa flavored, cream cheese frosting with a hint of almond extract and added the almonds on top. They were delicious!

Vanilla poinsetta cupcakes made with buttercream frosting. Made these for a co-worker's christmas party. I also made some red velvet cake pops for him. They were simple pops covered in white chocolate and I piped green and red colored chocolate all over.

I made these fudge brownie, mint chip cake pops for a christmas party at work. Everyone loved them!