The Summer Heat

I had two cake pop orders to do and the California heat was not helping me one bit. Also my home doesn't have air conditioning so I was having a difficult time making them. The chocolate was not setting and the cake pops were falling off the stick! So I decided that every time I dipped a cake pop in chocolate I would immediately put it in the refrigerator to set. My legs were not happy from going back and forth, that's for sure.

But there was a huge downfall from putting them in the refrigerator. I didn't know that it condenses and all my cake pops were sweating. So from this experience I learned it isn't wise to put cake pops in the refrigerator...hahaha. Seventy-five cake pops later!

Cake Pops with a blue butterfly detail

Cake Pops with a red flower detail

Cute baby shower cake pops

All cake pops were red velvet flavored.

Neon Cake

Lately I've been having bad luck with making cake pops. I think the cake pops had too much frosting and ended up being so soft that it fell off the stick. When I decided to go for Round 2 I decided to melt my chocolate candy melts in the microwave and some how burned them! It certainly wasn't my day for cake pops. Since I had some red velvet cake left over I decided to make a layered cake. Luckily, I had baked them in six-inch cake pans and I had enough for 2 thin layers. I decided to go nuts and baked some chocolate cake so I could make a 4 layer cake. I had some leftover cream cheese frosting and added some rum extract that I bought on a whim from the local Food-4-Less.




Then I made some vanilla buttercream frosting. I was debating over using green or blue food coloring and ended up using green. A few drops of the icing color gel and a nice light green color came out. It was a struggle to frost this cake since I didn't put it in the refrigerator. Note to self: let cake cool in the refrigerator before frosting. The buttercream didn't adhere to the cake on the sides because of the filling pooling out but oh well, I made it!

With some whimsical neon orange piping this cake came out pretty cute. Not bad for a practice cake. It was too cute to eat so I ended up giving it to a friend. Haha!