Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Cupcake Pops in the House!

Well, here are my little darlings! Aren't they cute?! They were easy - although a bit time consuming and guess what? Candy Melts don't taste like doo-doo after all! The chocolate tasted chocolatey and the vanilla had a good white chocolate taste as well. I'd use them again although I don't know that they were tons different than working with real white and brown chocolate.

So...was there ANY drawback to making these sweet, little gems that make you smile just by looking at them? Um.....unfortunately, to me, yes. And it was a doozy of a drawback at that. I didn't like the way way they tasted. Isn't that awful?! After all the work and how gosh-darn cute they are I didn't enjoy eating them...like, at all. Maybe super cold, straight-from-the-freezer they'd be better - and oh, alright...I'll give them once more chance by trying that tonight. Twist my arm! My daughter loved them, my husband hasn't eaten one them yet - he's not really into sweets that much. Anyway...I made the pops as the recipe stated, using the red velvet cake and the cream cheese frosting. Red velet cake pretty much tastes like chocolate, but milder (to me). Next time - if there is a next time - and I do kind of feel like I should try them again at some point - I think I'll use dark chocoalte cake and dark chocolate frosting. I want a bigger 'punch' of taste and these ones really made me feel like there was hardly any flavor at all. Secondly, the texture is something that takes a little getting used to. It's cake 'clay' and when eaten at room temp, well...it's just weird. Maybe it's the fact that they're red inside.....blood red. And how how many blood red things do you ever eat? Eating something chocolatey that's also brown might help me.

Either way, you can't deny that these cupcake pops are a sight for your eyes - cute as a button and as bright as a ray of sunshine. For that reason alone I'll have to give them another chance - I just hope their taste rises to their appearance!

Friday, February 13, 2009

Gonna Make These This Weekend.....

Are these just about the cutest things you've ever seen?! They're cupcake pops (or you can make cupcake bites - sans stick) and I fell 100% in love with them on a site called Bakerella. They were born from a fun little treat called cake pops (round, coated cake-ball 'lollipops') that can be decorated in only about a million and one - or is it a million and two (?) different ways!

As I understand it - they're pretty simple to make. I'm gonna bake and cool a red velvet cake, crumble it into a bowl and mix it with about 2/3's of a can of ready-made cream cheese frosting. Then I'm gonna mold'em, dip'em.....and then you better believe I'm gonna eat'em! The 'dip'em' portion uses candy melts as opposed to chocolate (whether it be dark, milk or tinted white). I assume that even though chocolate can be melted velvety smooth, it may not be as melty/thin as the candy melts. Might not drip off as well. I have to admit, I've never used candy melts because I'da figured they'd taste....well...like doo-doo.....but we'll see! I'm totally excited to make these delightfully adorable pops! I'll check back in on Tuesday (three-day weekend ahead....oh yeah!) and let you know how they turned out!

Until then...Have a Suh-weeeeeet Valentine's Day!!!!