Cake Pops Kicked My Ass

You all know Bakerella, right? The Awesome Goddess of Baking Cuteness who makes everything look so easy? And so cute!

I had to go there. Bakerella made these adorable little cake pops for Easter and I had to make them. I mean, I can work my way around the kitchen...I'm a wicked cook and can bake up a storm...so I was up for a little challenge with my baking assistant, Younger Munchkin. Hell, how hard could it be? She makes these things by the truckload.

I baked the cake and followed the instructions to get here:



Ok...so they're not perfectly round like hers are but bunny heads aren't either in real life so I was just fine with the odd lumps and such. (Actually, Younger Munchkin's were more consistently round than mine.)

Then we got to the "fun" part -- making them look like bunnies!



Actually, this bunny disagrees.

Ears went ok. Noses went ok.

Uh oh. The Wilton food writing pens...don't write on food. I'm not going to get all Oprah and take down the Wilton food writing pen company or anything, but these things really, really sucked. And, I was on a deadline. The only thing I could find were these Wilton pens -- not the pens Bakerella uses. (Those require a level of planning that does not exist in my world.)

*gasp* How will the bunnies have faces and cute little expressions and such?!?!?!

Oh! I know! I'll glue teenytiny little jimmies on for eyes!



This, ladies and gentlemen, is where things started going downhill.

Five hours later all 60ish bunnies had eyes. I was done with bunnies.

But there were still chicks!



I swear I started out full steam ahead on these and intended to finish them all, and they were looking cute even though they didn't have eyes and their wings and feet kept falling off. The eyes are the thing that broke me, though...the idea of gluing 120 jimmies onto 60 chicks over the next five hours...



I decided that they were just going to have to be good enough...because I am not as awesome as Bakerella and I am ok with that. Seriously, she is a genius, and I appreciated Her Amazing Awesomeness even more after having gone through this whole cake pop thing.

I tucked them in a jar with candy, and went out to Easter dinner.

People raved over these things! They were delicious! Especially the chicks -- the candy melts were too thick, so I added some coconut oil to thin it -- they had a subtle, not very sweet coconut flavor. The chicks were my favorite!

Next time...chocolate cake with shredded coconut, chocolate icing, and coconut oil in the candy melts.

Oh, you know I'll be doing this again. I will defeat the cake pops. Besides, I like to torture myself. Don't you?