Cake Pops - Adventure #5 with a Few Friends

A few friends and I became adventurous and wanted to try some of the cake pops projects found in the Cake Pops book.  They are not the best things we have done, but not too bad for first timers. 

Pandas made by Jaime

Minnie Mouse silhouettes made  by Lauren, Pirates made by me

Chicks and Sheep by me

Some Mickey Mouse ears

Some cake balls made from some left over candy coating

Christmas Cake Balls - Adventure #4

I purchased a book for myself for Christmas - Cake Pops.  I was inspired by many of the cake projects inside.  Here are the Christmas cake balls I made for our family gathering.

Cake Ball Adventures #2

So I decided to make some cake balls for a coworkers baby shower breakfast.  This time I made two delicious flavors: red velvet and German chocolate.  This turned out quite nicely.  I even got a little creative with the German chocolates and swirled white and chocolate candy melts to coat. 

Cake Ball Adventures #1

With all the talk about cake balls and cake pops, I decided I wanted to try and make some.  Here was the disastrous result of my first try. 

Baking and rolling out the cake was the easy part. 
First you bake a 9x13 cake as you normally would.  It can be homemade or a box mix.  It does not matter. 
After letting the cake cool completely, I crumble the cake into a one gallon zip top bag. 
Next, add about a cup of icing, homemade or the canned stuff from the grocery store is fine. 
Mix thoroughly.  I usually get as much air out of the bag as possible, and then knead it. 
Using a small ice cream scooper, I scoop out enough cake and icing mixture to make a quarter size ball. 
Roll it up.  Set on wax paper on a pan or cookie sheet. 
I place my balls into the freezer until firm.  This is where it got a little crazy for me. 

For the coating, you need to use melted candy.  What you see is not icing.  Icing does not harden they way candy melts do.  I was using regular white chocolate chips for this project. Little did I know, they do not melt as smoothly as candy melts do.   They also need to be tempered.  You are suppose to be able to dip the ball into the melted candy in one motion.  Yeah, not so much for me.  As you can see below, the candy was not very smooth as all.  However, they did taste quite delicious! 

School Success Celebration

This year our administrative assistant approached me to make a celebration cake to celebrate the success of our teachers and students.  The only requirements that she gave me were that it needed to feed about 50 people (there were other desserts present), it needed to represent Meadowcreek, and include the words Sweet Success on the cake.  Here is what my I came up with:

Our mascot is the mustang and our colors are blue and white.

I created this confetti cannon for the top.