Mod Baby! Yellow & Gray Baby Shower Cake Pops

Hey Baby! These rich double chocolate cake pops (cake drops) were created for a yellow & gray modern baby shower. I made them with a shorter sticks than usual for a cuter appetizer look and feel just right for a Saturday morning get together.

Caramel Apples for a Safari Themed Baby Shower

Having your first baby is a wild ride so why not have a safari themed baby shower! My inspiration for these caramel & chocolate dipped apples were straight out of the savanna complete with monkeys, hippos, tigers and elephants.

Peacock Themed Wedding Cake Pops

I actually like to call these cake drops-- upside down cake pops I made for a summer wedding. Cake drops so are easy to display on beautiful trays and beautiful and tasty addition. 125 cake drops were made to order in "peacock" style color & theme for a romantic and vibrant wedding. I chose teal, blue, purple and crisp white adorned with sparkly sugar crystals and chocolate stringer decoration. The colors were vibrant indeed! Sorry for the poor lighting, some detail is lost because I snapped a picture in the fridge :)

Get Suckered!

Summertime Lollipops

The perfect companion after riding bikes through the sprinklers on a hot summer day is a tasty hard candy sucker and the kids like them too. HA! My kids love homemade hard suckers. They love to help make them too! What's not to love: sugar, water, corn syrup (sugar) and flavoring. I've made them the same way since I was a little girl with my mom. We've always used Lorann oils, but this time I decided to try essential oils after a few so-so batches. 

Let me tell you the EO's make FANTASTIC tasting suckers! I recruited my wonderful neighbor to help me in a sucker making frenzy and after 600 suckers and about 20lbs of sugar it was hard to stop trying out new oils flavors. 

Why essential oils? Essential oils are natural, derived from the peel, flower or leaf of plants. They literally are the aromatic essences of plants so by using EO's the hard candy tastes intense and fresh. I did use the other flavoring oils to make fun kid friendly flavors like Cotton Candy and Pina Colada. There just isn't a cotton candy essential oil, dangit! 

I dipped some suckers in dark chocolate. The chocoholic in me couldn't resist! They were extra delicious but not hot weather friendly. Didn't this mason jar arrangement make a cute present for my neighbor? He turned 45 so this was just a sampling of the 45 suckers he got :)

EO suckers we made: Sweet Orange, Anise, Tangerine, Grapefruit, Lime, Lemon, Cinnamon, Peppermint and Lemon+Lime. I've got more essential oil sucker flavors in mind for next time.

Regular flavoring: Cotton Candy, Pina Colada, Butterscotch (next time Im making a real butterscotch sucker!)