Popping Challenges

Making cake pops is easy. I love coming up with new flavors. For example, I am going to make an Almond Toffee one that I hope is similar to the luscious Almond Roca that everyone adores.

The biggest problem comes in the creativity of toppings. To differentiate between flavors, I put a different type of topping on each flavor. For example, the Almond Toffee will be covered in chocolate with almonds sprinkled over the chocolate while it is still wet.

However, I am having a difficult time coming up with a topping for Red Velvet that will make it different than most any of the cake pop flavors that I dip in white. I believe I will use the red candy sprinkles that I usually use for Valentine's Day or Christmas.

Sometimes, I just need to ramble a little to come up with the best idea.

Back to the popping

I started baking cakes again last night. I took about 3 weeks off because I had a very large supply. Well, that supply has dwindled down to a few flavors. All chocolate.

Last night, I began with Red Velvet and Strawberry. This morning I made Butter Pecan and Carrot. When I get home tonight, I will make Caramel Macchiato, and Almond Roca. Then, I will shape them and have them all ready for selling.

I think I'm going to go on the cheap side and wrap them with saran wrap this time instead of the little baggies. I can make them a little bigger and they'll still be cute. Sometimes, in order to make them fit into the small baggies, I have to make them small. They aren't as tempting when they are only marble sized. I like the ones that are about 3 bites. They seem to be more worth the $1 that way.

I'm having a garage sale this weekend, and I've decided to attempt selling my pops at the sale. I have a few other things I need to try and sell, so I may as well give them a go as well. I need to earn at least $300, so away we go.

Time to start again.

Regardless of the heat, I must begin baking again. First, I have some brownies to make for my sweetheart. He moved away for a year to finish college, and I had to stay behind to continue my college career. So, I want to send him some brownies.

I've also run pretty low on cake pops. I'm out of two flavors, and I'm nearly out of others. Time to begin making more. Also, I've noticed the longer the cake pops stay in the freezer, the softer the chocolate is when they thaw.

Dang, they still taste great!

Summer Heat

It's really tough to bake in the summer. It's hot outside, but it stays pretty cool in my house. 

The bad thing about baking is keeping the oven on for an hour while baking. My little convection toaster oven only stays on while it's actually baking, which is nice, but if I bake more than one cake, my kitchen turns into a sauna. 

Sadly, I am running low on cake pops and am out of some flavors. I must begin again.