Mario Mushroom

This cake was so much fun to make! We are huge Mario Brother's fans around here. I wish I had more pictures of the details on the other sides. Had mystery boxes, beanstalks, and even a Chompy.

Cake is stacked six-inch rounds, covered in marshmallow fondant (MMF). The dome of the mushroom is actually styrofoam I covered with MMF. It's styrofoam because there were a dozen or so cake pops (not pictured, sorry) that were stuck in it.  The cake pops featured the Mario and Luigi symbols. Details on the cake were made using more MMF and a little buttercream.

Cake Pops with Small Cake for a Baby Shower

The hostess wanted cake pops and then a smaller cake for the mom-to-be to take home. The colors were taken from the invitation.

Half of the cake pops were chocolate inside and the other half were almond butter cake. Added some gold sprinkles to work in all the colors. The cake is a six-inch round, also almond butter, with vanilla buttercream filling. It's covered in marshmallow fondant with MMF accents.

Go, Baby, Go! Cupcakes and Cake Pops

This baby shower had a transportation theme and was so much fun to put together. On the snack table was cupcakes, chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream and sprinkles.

Each guest was given a toy car and a cake pop for the favors. Either chocolate road cake pops, dipped in chocolate with a fondant car, or white cake pop cloud, dipped in vanilla with a fondant airplane.

See how addicted I am to these little cookie cutters? Adorable!

Here's more of the shower decorations and table spread (printables were from HWTM on etsy):

Hot Air Balloon Cake Pops

Remember the Hot Air Balloon Baby Shower? Well, that was for her family. Next, we had one for her friends and church members! But I decided to go all crazy and make cake pops for this one. Keep in mind that I had only made cake balls twice at this point…but I found a reader-posted picture on Bakerella's site and went from there.

Not that great, I know. I started with a tear-shaped ball, dipped white first; let it set. Then yellow and blue. The basket is made from a section of Tootsie Roll. I highly recommend poking a hole through these before trying to slide them up the stick. I then use melted chocolate to draw on the ropes and connect the basket to the balloon.

One thing I learned about cake pops…I used a confetti cake (stirred sprinkles into the batter before baking). Because of the browned outside of the baked cake, the rolled balls looked entirely brown, with only bare hints of the sprinkles. Bummer. But lesson learned! Next time, I'll trim off the browned parts.

Definitely not my best work, but it was really fun and tasted amazing!

Cake Pops!

I gave in to peer pressure…and really cute pictures on Pinterest. I've been reading Bakerella's blog for ages but never dared replicate her delightful cake pops - until now.

These were made for a party celebrating a big achievement for one of my favorite people! The colors represent the Young Women's values. The gold color was a bit tricky, since I already had yellow. I dipped the cake balls in white candy melts and then brushed on dry gold luster dust. Wish I had gone with wet luster dust for a better color. But otherwise, it was pretty fun matching the candy melts with the sprinkles I had, which are legion.

I made 40. I should have made more…