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Cakepop FAIL!

Life has been SO insanely busy this week! I am throwing my sisters baby shower with the help of a friend, and helping with a friends baby shower…the very next day! Yesterday was the day that I was going to get tons and tons finished, it was also the day that Braylen decided to be insanely fussy/not nap/want to be held 24/7. Those two things don’t make a great combo.

I attempted to make cakepops for the very first time..and it sucked. So bad. I am not a huge baker, I would always choose cooking over baking, always. I am not a perfectionist- so I hate recipes that I have to follow exactly for them to turn out great. I attempted to follow Bakerellas cakepop tutorial, and got all the way to the very last step, and then they failed so epic-ly hard it was hilarious { I don’t even like the word epic, but it is so appropriate here}.

Here was how it went down:
I crumbled my cake perfectly..because crumbling a cake with your hands is really hard🙂

I then mixed in my jar of cream cheese frosting, again really hard:

I then rolled them in to perfect little cakepop balls. Not really perfect, since again, I am for sure not a perfectionist, but they were good enough.

Then I dipped my lollipop stick in to a little bit of the frosting and stuck it in to the cakepop, easy-peasy:

This is when Bray woke up from his should have been TWO hours 45 minute nap, I unsuccessfully tried to get him to sleep longer in the Ergo:

This is when it all went to crap. I attempted the dipping in the frosting part. Every.single.time. the cakepop would either come off the stick or crumble completely. And thats when I gave up and decided I was going to get the most delicious doughnut holes ever from Bosa doughnuts for the baby shower dessert.


So what lesson have I learned this week? That getting things done while having a baby= don’t ever count on them be as easy going as usual when you need to get things accomplished. Also, don’t ever attempt a hard dessert the day before a big event. Finally, when you have a crying baby that is just stupidly fussy for no reason, play airplane with him…he will giggle every time. Happy weekend friends:)

Comments

  1. keri @ shaken together says

    I had a few cake pop fails before I figured it out 🙂 My humble tips: I only use about 3/4 of the can of frosting, make the balls a little smaller than you think and freeze them before dipping. My cake balls are never drop dead gorgeous, but they taste pretty good 🙂

  2. Becky says

    You just totally summed up my feelings on cooking over baking! Sorry the cake pops didn’t work out! But now I guess you have a bunch of half finished cake pops to yourself. Is that a good thing??

  3. Kaleigh says

    My mom did cake pops for my baby shower back in June. She did all the hard stuff, I just decorated the,. Then when I went to make them myself the next time I thought I would take the easy way out and use boxed cake mix and frosting. I learned it should all be made from scratch. Anyways, this is how the first cake pops turned out ……

    http://ih3art.blogspot.com/2012/06/cake-pops.html

    And I agree having a baby makes it difficult to get things done. I haven’t been able to post on my blog in like a month!

  4. Anonymous says

    After putting the sticks in – freeze them for a while. It will work every time then. You look great! Have fun this weekend

  5. Kristin says

    Yeah, it worked really well when I froze my cake pops before I decorated them and again RIGHT after I dipped them in chocolate so they set once more. Hope the shower goes well today, fingers crossed for rain tomorrow so I can be there for that shower 🙂

  7. jme71 says

    I had to make around 200 for a graduation party. I first bought a 19 cake pop. I then after making cake pops dipped stick in frosting and then place in fridge for about 20 minutes. They iced beautifully. They still took forever…but it worked.

  10. Nutbird says

    What’s the matter with cup cakes? I think we are all falling into a Pinterest/Blogger Death Trap. They make everything seem easy. After 40 years of being an adult, I still can’t make pie crust. I just buy really, really good pies. (and cakes) I know my limitations. I Love the Dogs on the Furniture. Even if you didn’t have a baby, it probably wouldn’t have worked. Ann

  11. Kim @ NewlyWoodwards says

    Did yOu at least eat those morsels? Because I’m sure they still taste awesome. Those little stinkers always remind us that they call the shots, don’t they? Lucky theyare so cute.