Luckily, my colleague decided that instead of 200 graduation cap cake pops, her daughter wants different designs. Pheeeewwwwwwww!!!!! The picture to the right is what showed me. So the next step was trying to figure out pricing. By no means am I a professional baker, so I didn't feel quite confident to charge what the local bakeries are charging per pop. Anywhere from $2.50 for plain designs up to $3! Craziness! I guess that's what you get for living in the DC metro area. So I decided to charge $1.75/pop....it's my first sale, plus she's a colleague AND she's ordering 200 after all!!!
Her daughter wanted the following flavors: Red velvet, Spice Cake, Vanilla, and Chocolate Peanut Butter. She also gave me a very pretty multicolored napkin they would be using at the party with just about every color known to man and said, "these are the colors we want you to use." In order to help her distinguish what flavor each cake pop was, I picked a variety of chocolate colors I thought would best match up with the cake flavors and kept in mind the above picture. I decided I would let my creativity take over and just make random designs but keep all the red velvets some version of red and white, spice cake some version of orange and white, vanilla cake would be lime green and hot pink, and chocolate would be blue.
Here is how they turned out!!
Red Velvet Pops
Vanilla Pops
Spice Cake Pops
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pops
I believe the blue designs turned out to be my favorite followed by the red.
Perhaps you are wondering how this novice teacher/baker managed to deliver 200 cake pops to school....My amazing husband and handy man built me 4 wooden carrying boxes and drilled over 200 holes so my pops could stand upright! You can make out the boxes in some of the pictures.
My colleague said everyone loved them! She displayed them in a variety of jars filled with jelly beans. She said she was hoping to have some extra pops left over, but people kept trying all of them and then took some home as a favor. She said I was underpricing myself and gave me a little tip too! :) Yay!!
