Showing posts with label cake balls. Show all posts
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Valentine Cake Pops

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Well, I finally got this blog thing straightened out (sort of.) I'm not sure what's going on with the posting...its different from before. If anyone has some answers, I'd love to hear from you!


On to the post...


Valentine Cake Pops!




Here are this year's Valentine's Pops.




 Jack is taking them tomorrow with his Valentines.  I'll post his Valentines next.
Happy Valentine's Day (almost!!!)




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Christmas Cookies

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As you can tell, I made a lot of cookies this year for Christmas. Joy and I estimate that we baked over 300. And by we baked, I mean, I baked. Although, don't get me wrong, she totally helped. She just didn't actually put anything in the oven. =P




We make all these cookies (and cake balls) solely to give away to people as Christmas gifts. I think it's a brilliant idea because 1) I love baking and 2) I love giving gifts. I love how excited and happy people are when they receive a tin of homemade goodies. Delivering them is seriously the best part (and eating the extras is pretty awesome too).




We ran out of room to put them all, too. Our apartment has been a little crowded (messy) lately, because we've all been stressed and busy with exams...some things (like doing laundry), get pushed to the side. Oh, the life of college students.




Nifty trick: the sugar cookies are just dipped in canned icing. I melted it in the microwave so it would get runny and added regular ol' food coloring (all my awesome gel pastes are at home) to make it redish and greenish. After you let them sit for a couple of hours (or over night), they get hard enough to package, but the icing is still soft when you bit into it. So simple, so brilliant. :)




The cake balls are strawberry/chocolate and carrot cake/white chocolate. I LOVE the strawberry. Once again, I went with the convenience of box mixes and canned icing. But with all the hard work that went into them, I'm sure nobody minded.




All in all, it was about a 3 day process. Joy and I did this last year too, and I love that we make a yearly tradition out of it (although she's been doing this for years before she even met me). One of our friends said our apartment looked like a bakery and our roommates and everyone who came by loved that we had extra cookies sitting around to snack on. Merry Christmas everyone!


(Just a quick reminder to let you know that you can vote every 24 hours for the "Show Your Duff" contest, so if you voted yesterday, don't forget to do it again today! I noticed that my entry is on the 2nd page-- there are 10 pages right now-- of cakes with the most votes, so let's see if we can move on up to page #1! And to everyone who's already voted: Thank you! You have no idea how much this means to me! I wish I could give a Christmas tin full of cookies to every one of you, for voting, for telling your friends to vote, for liking me on Facebook, for reading my blog, for encouraging me to go after my dreams. I love you all! <3)





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Cake Balls: The Pictures

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So here's the pictorial evidence of the candy corn cake balls that I made!


First, the candy corn:


Here we have a picture of the newly chocolated cake balls. (of course "chocolate" is a verb!) You might be able to see that some of the candy corn melted and leaked out of their shiny, tempered chocolate shell. Also note the beautiful sprinkles that Haley & I decorated with:


And finally, the close up:


These were oddly and surprisingly delicious.





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Banana Chocolate Cake Balls

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Hello, everyone! It's your favorite MIA baker, back with some more tasty tidbits!


Just wanted to share my recent cake ball shenanigans... banana chocolate!


Sorry about the crappy pictures...they were taken with my camera phone and/or a webcam. I wasn't prepared with my real camera because I was dog/house sitting with my roomie, and the cake ball thing was sorta spontaneous. I said "hey, doesn't banana cake balls covered in chocolate sound amazing??" and she said "we're going grocery shopping!" We turned on some Christmas music, and it happened just like that.






And I know you're excited to know what my recipe is, so let me share it with you:


A box of banana bread (I used whichever brand didn't have walnuts in it, since roomie is allergic...Pillsbury, according to the picture below), 2 bananas, chocolate almond bark, cream cheese icing, and yellow sprinkles. The sprinkles are the important ingredient, of course.




Just follow the recipe on the box (honestly, homemade banana bread would've been 100000x better, but sometimes you gotta work with what you have) and add 2 sliced up bananas to the batter for a better banana-y flavor. I suppose if you want to add walnuts, you can.


I used a cream cheese frosting to mix it up with, but you really don't need a lot, because banana bread is already really moist.


Finally, dip it in the melted chocolate almond bark. Or get all fancy and use legit tempered chocolate. I really wish I had the knowledge and patience to make tempered chocolate, because the almond bark just isn't cutting it for me. I'm sorry I'm such a chocolate snob, and if you want to continue to use almond bark, by all means do. I probably will be too, until I get my own bakery, and then I'm bringing out the big guns.





Just a picture of me being silly.





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Peach Cake Balls

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And so the saga of peach-flavored desserts continues.



This time we have cake balls. I just used up the leftover cupcakes that I had frozen (they were the cupcakes that were falling apart and I didn't want to deal with the hassle of trying to decorate them) and the cream cheese frosting in the fridge.



I did have to buy white chocolate, though. Blegh. I'm not a fan of white chocolate, but it was, as they say in Applied Decision Making Methods class (aka the math class that isn't advertised as a math class so you sign up for it oh-so-naively [plus they expect you to remember everything from stat, but you don't and you need this stupid class to graduate]), the "best alternative."



For half of the cake balls, I sprinkled them with orange sprinkles, and the other half with cinnamon. I like the sprinkles better, but since there was actually cinnamon in the cake, it would make sense to use it as a garnish too. Also, my roommate doesn't like sprinkles. (Weird, right?)



I really, really think that these cake balls would also be superbly amazing if I had used pumpkin cake instead of peach. Since fall is coming up, that would be a great recipe to try. Although I'll make pumpkin cake for any occasion year-round.





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