It’s no secret that my daughter Arah loves to bake. She makes cakes, cupcakes, basically anything with sugar. Me, not so much. As in, my mom or Arah make the birthday cakes for everyone, I don’t touch them. I literally have a Pinterest board called Cakes I Can’t Make. However, for our fourth Mother Daughter Pinterest Challenge, I decided that Valentines cake pops should be our project. I figured, how hard could they be? Well…
We were inspired by these cake pops from THIS PIN and the original blog post from All Day I Dream About Food.
I found a cake pop maker on clearance at Walmart after Christmas for only $7.50, and it had the heart shaped plates. So, I snagged it up, and again figured how hard could they be? Then, it sat on the counter for oh, about two weeks before I actually opened it and put it to use. Thankfully, my daughter already knew how to use it (and also it wasn’t exactly rocket science).
So, I told her to let me have a go at it first, just to make sure it worked alright, you know. Here’s how well my first batch turned out…
Right, so, that was just the “experiment” batch.
Actually, once the girl showed me how much to add, and not the giant glop of batter I used, they turned out pretty perfect. We just used a white cake mix because that’s all I had in the pantry.
If you’re planning on making cake pops for Valentines Day this year, just be forwarned that apparently cooking cake pops brings all the kids to the kitchen, so this became even more than a mother daughter event, it became all the kids in the family plus mom event. Even the little guy got in on the action by adding sprinkles to the chocolate while it was setting.
Okay, so I’m just going to go ahead and admit it, our final product looked nothing like the original pin. These aren’t as easy as I thought. They did however, taste pretty good, and we had a lot of fun together in the kitchen creating them. In fact, the three in the photo at the beginning of this post are the only three somewhat cute ones I could find to take pics of.
Oh, did I mention that the batter we used made about 7.2 million cake pops? Also, that we only dipped about half of them in the vanilla, and that the other half it still in the fridge awaiting decoration? How about the fact that I had to go to Walmart at 9 PM to get more sticks, because I didn’t know I needed so many?
While I won’t be giving Starbucks a run for their money on their cake pop line, we did have a lot of fun. My daughter was very patient with me as I navigated the world of cake pop making, but I am very confident that they’d have been even better if she’d been able to do them herself. I can honestly say that I don’t think I’ll be personally making any more in the future.
This was a great pin to check off our Pinterest to-do list. And from now on, I’ll be adding any cute cake pop ideas to my Cakes I Can’t Make pinboard.
