Cupcake Pops & Bites!

My favorite thing ever to do? Make CUPCAKE POPS! So I had wanted to make some for my Mommy for Mother's Day when she comes over. Then I realized I had M&M's from Easter that I never used.


See, HOW PRETTY?!


They have the cutest designs on them and are the perfect colors for Cupcake Pops!



Anyway... you know how this goes... but I just love taking step by step pictures.


You will need:

Any flavor cake (baked as directed and cooled)
Cream Cheese icing
Chocolate, Pink, and White Candy Melts.
Sprinkles of your choice.
Flower Shaped Cookie Cutter.
Lollipop Sticks.
Pink or Red M & M's.
Treat Bags.
Ribbon.
Styrofoam Block.

SO first you bake your cake. After you let it cool for about an hour. Next crumble up your cake in a large bowl and mix in the Cream Cheese Icing. Roll your cake mixute into small balls about 1.25" - 1.5". After freezing them for about 15 minutes, shape them into more of an oblong shape. Freeze them again for 15 minutes.



Using your flower shaped cookie cutter, push the cake through about half way, you want a mound on top. Now gently push the cupcake shape out by the bottom. Once more stick those babies in the freezer. While you wait get your chocolate ready! Prepare as directed on the package.


Ok now your ready to dip!

Carefully dip the bottom of the cupcake into the chocolate. You want the chocolate to cover to the point where the mound starts. After dipping in chocolate grab a lollipop stick and dip it into chocolate and quickly stick into the bottom of the cupcake. You can lay out a sheet of wax paper to place the cupcakes on upsidedown.



I usually let it dry for about 5-7 minutes, By the time your done dipping all the rest you can start the tops! Since this is about the 3rd time i've made these i've discovered tricks. My favorite one (acutally my boyfriend figured this one out) smush the mound down GENTLY a LITTLE bit. This helps it look more like a cupcake. =) Thanks BABY! Now just hold the pop upside down and dip the top of the cupcake into the color of your choice. You need to be carefull here. You don't want the chocolate to drip too far down the sides so usually I hold it upside down for a little. Another helpful trick is to tap your wrist SLIGHTLY or to slowly wiggle the pop. Before dry add an M & M and sprinkles! Let completly dry for about 15 minutes. Then you can wrap them in a treat bag and add a pretty ribbon.

I like to use certain color tops depending on the sprinkles I want to use. My favorite look is Pink or White with Pink M&M's and pastel Nonpareils.

Look how cute they came out!



OH MY GOD! I cant take it! SO CUTE! I LOVE IT! AHH!


Of course, if your like me and didnt have enough sticks you can make them into CUPCAKE BITES!




Thanks again Bakerella!

Grandma's Angel Food Cake

Ever since I was little I can remember my grandma making Angel Food Cake on Easter. But not any Angel Food cake, it was always colorful! So when I got a little older she would have me help her make it, we always had so much fun mixing the colors! And now, even though she's gone I still make it. I love making this cake because even though it is a cake, its fat free! The taste is so light and has a wonderful fluffy texture.



First thing you want to do is follow the directions on your box of Angel Food Cake. Once you have the batter mixed , set up enough bowls for the amount of colors you want for your cake.

I usually do 5 colors, but you can have as many or as little as you want.








Next, you want to add the desired amount of food dye into each bowl and stir.



I picked,



Green









Yellow







Pink







Blue









& Purple







Don't you just love the colors??



Now you can add the batter to your ungreased bundt pan. I guess you could use another type of pan if you wanted to, but I use a bundt. Don't pour all of the color in at one time or you wont get the same effect. Use a spoon to add a little at a time, alternating the colors.








Just bake it as directed on the box. Your cake is done when the cracks in the cake look dry. Let it cool upsidedown on a cooling rack. CAREFULLY run a flat knife along the edges of the pan to help loosen the cake. My grandma used to hit the bottom of the pan with the handle of the knife, I don't know if it acutally works but I do it too!! =).







YUM! LOOK HOW PRETTY!


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Easter Cake Pops!

So I tried my hand at Bakerella's Easter Cake Pops! They were all so cute! Take a look!

The Chicks & Bunnies were the easiest. The Easter Eggs were very time consuming. I had some trouble at first when dipping. Your supposed to be able to dip and remove and it to look perfect. But i'm NO Bakerella and could not pull that off. So I had to pull some tricks out of my sleeve to pull them off but they all came out cute! Then I had this great idea for a center piece for Easter. I took a Easter Basket, put a Styrofoam block inside covered it with Easter Grass and stuck the pops in! DONT YOU JUST LOVE IT!??!?!!?

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Peep-achu's Part 2!!

Well I have SO MUCH to post!
Lets take it one at a time....


Here's one of the Peepachu's I gave my brother for his 17th birthday (as a joke). He refused to be in the picture.

Peep-achus!

So when my brother and I were young we used to love Pokemon. I still make fun of him about it, he gets so mad. So when I saw these guys I knew I had to make them for him. Tomorrow is his 17Th Birthday and I thought how perfect it would be to brake these out at his birthday dinner for the ultimate embarrassment! They came out looking just like hers and i'm sure he will like them, even though he wont admit it. He can say all day long that he dosen't like Pokemon anymore but I swear i'm caught him playing it on his Nintendo DS. I will post some photos of how it goes tomorrow at dinner!
Thanks again Bakerella!

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Cupcakee

I LOVE EASTER

I cannot wait for Easter. I love it. I have already bought my Hyacinths, its so fun to watch them open up a little bit everyday, when they are fully bloomed they will smell amazing. To me that smell is Easter, I always remember my grandmother having Hyacinths around Easter. What im really excited for is making Bakerella's Easter Cupcake Pop's! I really can't wait!

I need to get over this.

So it's been a few days now and i'm still upset.

Here's what happened: Basically on Sunday I was going through my cabinet and found a box of banana bread mix. I decided to get creative and mixed in chocolate chips and an extra banana. SMELLED SO GOOD. So I put it in the oven and baked it for the amount of time it said, acutally I baked it a little longer. The top was a ncie golden brown so I put my baking stick tester thingy-a-bobber and it came out clean! Stuck it in a few different places. So I let it cool and drizzled chocolate over the top. IT LOOKED BEAUTIFUL! WELL THEN DISASTER STRUCK!

I went to take it out of the pan so I could put it on a cute dish and take pictures and aparently the baking stick tester thing decided to play an early April Fool's joke on me. BECAUSE THE WHOLE ENTIRE THING was still batter. It feel all over the floor and everything! UGHH! Can I tell you how mad I was?!?!!?!??!




UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!