Hello Cake Pops!

It's been a while since I've blogged but I've been busy/ lazy. Ha Ha... at least I'm being honest. It all started with a simple post on my Facebook wall of the BabyCakes Cake Pop Maker saying, "Dear Santa, I've been really good this year.!!! Love, MeG! Then I posted the picture of the little pop maker. (It's kind of like a waffle iron but with little round circles.) Well, Santa must be a Facebook stalker because he saw my post and I got TWO for Christmas! Next year, Santa will get cake pops instead of cookies! My sweet Granny and Pop bought me one of them and Jason's awesome sister bought the other! AKA... Santa!

The first pops that were made were just plain yellow cake with white chocolate icing and a rainbow sprinkles on top! Thanks to Ali and Claire for being big helpers! We ended up making 120 balls from two cake box mixes. A LOT OF CAKE POPS! But the great part was if you leave them in the freezer you can saved them for up to 4 weeks. So The Durbin's had plenty of leftover cake balls to dip once we left. We made 68 for Claire's class at school. Such a cute idea for a mess free treat! The best part about these cake pops were that everyone help! Shannon, Claire and Ali each played a role in these tasty first timer pops. I also was able to use some tips and tricks I found on Pinterest.

Of course I used my camera (which still seems brand new to me) to capture every moment of this fun time with the little girls and big girls!

This is the idea I found on Pinterest for letting the cake pops dry!

Ali working the cake pop station!

Chocolate Covered Day at Work! (Thanks Kelsey)

Friday at work was "National Chocolate Covered Day" and everyone was supposed to bring in something with chocolate or covered in chocolate... anything chocolate! Normally I'd do chocolate covered strawberries but it's winter and they are so much $$$$$ right now! BOO! So, I invited Kelsey over to play! We bought pretzel rods, Nutter Butter cookies, rice krispie treats (pre wrapped) we were supposed to also make cup cakes... but that didn't happen. We finished a bunch of stuff but we both had to work early that next day and we had some wine. :)

We made reindeer Nutter Butter cookies. They had M&M red noses and icing eyes then I glued the pretzel antlers on with melted chocolate.



We also made Snowmen Nutter Butter cookies. The had M&M green buttons, icing eyes and mouth then I made orange white icing for the carrot nose. So freaking cute! I loved making the noses.



Another thing we made were large pretzel rods. We dipped them in white chocolate and milk chocolate. Then we rolled them in sprinkles. SUPER CUTE!! Yummy too! Salty and Sweet!



Rice Krispie Treats dipped in white chocolate on one side was the last treat to make. We tried putting them on sticks but that was a huge FAIL! We got the thin sticks because they were cheaper... OoOps! So instead we let them dry then I dipped all four sides in sprinkles. I think they turned out pretty cute.



We had a fun night and the wine make it extra exciting. A few burnt fingers and a lot of chocolate we had some cute treats for work. :)