Today I am going to share another great collaboration with Charity of Charity's Creative Cakes. If you remember from my previous post, we worked together on baseball cookies + cake.
My combo orders with Charity have quickly become my favorite. It is so fun to match my cookies/cake pops to her amazing cakes. We spend the whole time texting each other pictures of every step of the process and making sure that our colors are matching, but the finished products always look so cute:
(photo credit to Bobbi- I love getting finished product photos from customers)
For these cookies, the color scheme was blue, green, orange, and yellow. And the theme was mustaches. Which I love.
For the cake pops, I did my Very Vanilla cake, which is one of my favorites. It is really dense and makes a great cake pop. I mixed it with buttercream icing. You can find my recipe for buttercream here.
I dipped them in Wilton Candy Melts. If you are going to dip anything in chocolate, seriously, Wilton candy melts.
Some quick cake pop tips I have learned along the way:
1. Melt your chocolate, then dip the cake pop stick in the chocolate and put in the cake pop
2. Do NOT freeze the cake pop. Put them in the fridge for an hour or so. If you freeze the cake pop and then dip it in the chocolate, when it starts to warm up it will expand and crack your chocolate shell.
3. Before dipping, add a small amount of shortening to smooth the chocolate and give the candy melt a shiny smooth chocolate coating.
4. Do not be afraid to make cake pops! So many people say that they seem so complicated, but I promise they are not! You could even use boxed cake and canned frosting to make things even easier.
(How cute are those little mustache sprinkles?!?)
The sugar cookies are my vanilla bean sugar cookie with royal icing. Decorated as little baby boy onesies:
For information on cookie & cake pop ordering and pricing, as well as other sweet treats I offer, see my Ordering Info Section
Andrea
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