Cake pops

 Many of you don't know that I make cake pops!  What is a cake pop you may wonder?  Well, it is a ball of cake goodness on a stick.  I first heard of these from my friend Kate, who bought one for like $3.50 at Starbucks and said it was fabulous.  She then taught herself and me to make them!  Before Kate left, we would make these together and have the best time doing it.  Even now, Molly asks about Kate every time we make them.  Miss you friend!!

 I make cake pops fairly often for special events and have started making them into centerpieces.  What can be better than edible centerpieces!  This past weekend, my good friend, Candace had a baby shower so I decided to make her potted cake pop centerpieces.  These are some of the foam flower pots I used.  It is so easy and cute using foam, the foam markers are great for writing personal message on the pots.  You could even have guests write little messages for the mom-to-be on them.  There are also cute little foam letters you can buy to decorate. 

 I made two types of pops this time.. White cake (which is the yummiest in my opinion) and strawberry (pink for girl!).  The white ones were coated with sprinkles and fun dip from the little packs.  The Strawberry ones were coated with pretzels, chocolate, pecans, and coconut.. 

Molly posing with the cake pops.  She loves helping shake the sprinkles on top and hold them if they aren't cooling quickly enough.. well let's be honest, her favorite part is 'sampling' the ones that fall off the stick! 

One of the centerpieces at the shower, after a couple of pops have been eaten :)  I used real potted flowers to stagger with the cake pop flower pots.  This is a great idea for showers because you can wrap up the real flower pots and give them as gifts for games.  By the end you have a cleared off table and you've kept it all in theme!

Close up of the strawberry pops.  Another great thing about cake pops is that they are moldable.  My friend Melissa, made some into Elmo heads for her son's Elmo themed birthday party.  You can make them into anything you want and kids love them because their have their own personal cake ball on a little stick that they can run around with.  This post is making me hungry!