Valentines

This year for Valentines Day, we decided to make Valentine's Cake Pops & send some (after eating a whole bunch of course!) to my Mother-in-Law in Florida. We sent some pictures of the kids & something cute that Cameron made at school as well. I made the decision to not put the sticks in the cake pops after contemplating all the different ways I could ship them w/out destroying them. I decided we would send them like chocolates in a chocolate box. So the pics that I posted here are of the cake pops (aka: cake balls) and the box I made to send them in w/the kid's pic on it. You can use any basic cake pop recipe & method so, I'm not posting that part. The idea is mainly to get creative with making them & packaging them. I find that chocolate candy melts are easier to use when dipping them but, a little too sweet combined with everything else. I like semi-sweet Bakers chocolate for the taste & texture but, a little harder to coat the pops with. Semi-sweet chocolate chips taste okay but, melting them to the right consistancy & dipping the pops is a real pain in the ass. Well, I digress, the Vaelntine sprinkles are what really makes them cute & then setting each one in a Valentine's themed mini-cupcake liner. Then I used a cute box that I already had which, had previously contained a really nice scarf that someone gave me for Xmas a couple of years ago. I knew that I would use that box for something one day! (I'm a secretly a hoarder) I put the pic of the kids that I printed & cut it into a heart shape & pasted on the box. Then, I used a sort of strechy cord to keep the box closed at the corners. Voila, mes amies! (BTW, I suddenly break into French at random times)