Time to give Thanks!

Okay, so I am in the middle of coaching swimming right now and the busiest part of our season is in December. I usually give out little treats for Christmas to our school administrators, secretaries, department chairs, athletic directors, and custodians.  I just know that if I try to do this in December I will go crazy, so instead I moved my craziness up a month and decided on chocolate chip pumpkin bread cake pops as a way to say thanks for all they do to help me and Billy out throughout the year. 


I had some problems with dipping them into the chocolate while the cake was still too cool and as a result I had some of the chocolate crack. I tried to cover them up with the vines and leaves by following the crack marks. It reminded me of my middle school art teacher who always made sure we didn't worry about making a mistake because it could lead to something entirely different and better than you had originally planned. 

Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks to all of you teachers and school support staff too! Unless you're a teacher, no one can ever truly understand.

 

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! These were made for our friend Andrea's Bday/Halloween. White chocolate & vanilla mummies, pumpkin flavored pumpkins, and chocolate & peanut butter cats. 

I used semi sweet chocolate morsels for the cats' ears and drew their faces with a candy writer.  The mummies were dipped and then I used melted white chocolate and a fork to create the designs. For the pumpkin faces I used melted dark chocolate in a squeeze bottle and a little green sprinkle for the stem. Next time I will probably dip a pretzel stick in green chocolate for the stems because they were a bit too skinny. 

War Eagle and Happy Birthday!

Well here it is! My first attempt ever at making cake pops! I made these for my husband's birthday. He's an Auburn University alumni and football coach so I had to attempt to make these. We're having people over tomorrow to celebrate his birthday, watch college football and eat a smoked pork butt Billy will be making. ha-ha! They turned our pretty well I think for my first try. They were chocolate peanut butter flavored.  
War Eagle and Happy Birthday Billy!