Hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day!   I made a bunch of Valentine’s themed cake balls that I sold for “donations” for charity!   This cute little flower arrangement was sold for a $15 donation.

I decided to just make a few of each of these instead of trying to make full batches of each one.  These are extremely labor intensive as just one dozen of these took me about 2.5 hours to decorate.   Granted, that included dyeing the chocolate to the right colors first.  But each Santa Hat had to be dipped twice and reassembled with the stick each time.   The trees took the longest since this was mostly a timing issue.  Had to make it look like a tree and put the star on before the chocolate set.   The stars didn’t all make it before the chocolate set, so had to glue them on as well as each “light” individually.   I have come to find out that I don’t have very steady hands.  Good thing I didn’t become a surgeon!    The snowmen were pretty similiar to the ghosts I made for Halloween, so that was easy for me.  Hope you like them!

Here is a prime example of how candy inspires me to make cake balls.   Red/green/white colored candy corn and crushed candy canes!   Nothing says Happy Holidays like festive cake balls!

Ever since I got Bakerella’s Cake Pop book, I couldn’t wait for the holidays to come around because I wanted to make every single one of them!   Started off with the reindeer.   I couldn’t find the alphabet pretzels that she recommended using, so I just used regular pretzels and broke them into pieces.   The noses were made out of either red hots, red peanut M&Ms (cut in half) or red sours (cut in half).

I admit, I’m not Jewish and don’t know anything about Hanukkah, but I knew I wanted to make some Hanukkah themed cake balls.  Initially, I envisioned a cake ball to take the place of each candle on a menorah.   When out shopping, I quickly realized I would probably need a life sized menorah that was big enough to hold NINE cake balls!    I bought a small one instead and improvised, threw in some chocolate gelt and took the picture.  Next year, I’ll add the dreidel!    A fan of Cake Ball Addiction on Facebook posted some that she made this year.   Check hers out! Thanks, Enid!

These were red velvet cake balls, dipped in white confectioners chocolate that I dyed blue topped with blue sugar sprinkles.

I finally got Bakerella’s Cake Pops book!   I have been super anxious to make some of her cake pops!   My goal was to do all the Halloween ones, but I fear I may run out of time.

Here are the pumpkin ones.  I really like how they came out.

Then I tried the ghosts and skulls.  They didn’t come out very well the first time around:

But the second time around, they came out MUCH better!   These will go to my coworker’s kids tomorrow.

Springtime is here and the baby chicks are getting ready to arrive just in time for Easter!

Looking for something different to make for Easter, I went with this.  I don’t even have a name for it.  Pre-chick?   The inspriation came from a cartoon  image in an online coloring book.  As soon as I saw it, I just KNEW I had to try to duplicate it.  These took quite some time to assemble, as it was pretty time consuming and sticky trying to make the legs.  I used some peanut marshmallows, and cut them up with a knife and formed them to make legs.  Using a black, edible ink marker, I drew the cracks on the egg.

I just can’t stop looking at these!   Everytime I look at this picture, I just giggle and giggle and giggle with a crazy grin on my face!  Stay tuned to see what the baby chicks look like after they’ve hatched!

I thought for a while what kind of cake balls or cake pops I would make for St. Patrick’s Day.     I wanted something more than just cake balls colored green, or topped with green/white sprinkles or four leaf clovers.  Everyone seemed to be doing that.    While browsing the internet, looking for some inspiration, I found a cute little drawing of a leprechaun.  THAT’S what I wanted to do!    Trying to figure out how to pull this off, I used Bakerella’s Snowman Cake Pop creation as the basis for my Leprechauns.

I only made these 5 leprechauns as they were a real chore to make.  The hats were SO heavy, it was hard to get them to “glue” to the top of the heads.  Attaching the cotton candy beards to the heads was a sticky situation at best.

After about an hour, the beards pretty much disintigrated and/or fell off!   I should have seen that coming, but I sure did have a good giggle about it.   I wonder what else I could have used for the beards instead that would not fall apart or disappear?  Do you have any suggestions?   Leave me a comment if you’ve got any suggestions on how I could improve the leprechauns for next time.