Cake pops, cutest ever!
I really love cake pops. Cake pops are the puppies of the cake world. They are the cutest things ever. Okay, I like to look at cake pops. Bakerella.com is the quintessential place on the net to see all sorts of photos of her smarvy cake pops. Go on, go look, I dare ya not to say 'awwwwah' and holler to your kid, 'oh, you gotta come see'.
But just like when I look at puppies, I have a similar reaction to cake pops when I think about making them. 1. They take much longer to come to marturity than should be allowed by law, just like puppies. 2. During the raising and rearing, much mess is made. 3. They always, ALWAYS, cost more than you plan on. Puppies between the shots, vet visits, and destroyed personal belongings, occuring from either end of the dog. (Puppy raising antics is a blog post for another day, when I'm over the trauma from raising the last puppy.) Cake pops start with a bag of candy melts and a bottle of nonpareils, well 4 so you can have enough white ones to do 2 dozen sheep, and three bottles of flat sprinkles to get enough white ones to make the eyes. Then you run back to the store to get the edible markers at $8 for 5 of them so you can add those cutesy details. Then to use some of the other nonpareils, you get more melts and one warehouse club size jug of pretzel alphabet letters so you can use all the E's for moose antlers. Oh and then 4 containers of candy coated sunflower seeds at $8 a bottle so you can dig out all the red and yellow ones, so you can at least use the Y's from the pretzles for the feet of some turkey cake pops, and so on and so on.
By the time your done you've spent $3000, you've got a mess beyond belief, and wondering what in the HELL made you think this was a GOOD idea to begin with!
So just like puppies, I'll enjoy those cute little round bumpkins of joy from photos, 'cuz I ain't making any (so don't get any crazy ideas you'll be seeing pics of them here) and I ain't bringing home any puppies.
But just like when I look at puppies, I have a similar reaction to cake pops when I think about making them. 1. They take much longer to come to marturity than should be allowed by law, just like puppies. 2. During the raising and rearing, much mess is made. 3. They always, ALWAYS, cost more than you plan on. Puppies between the shots, vet visits, and destroyed personal belongings, occuring from either end of the dog. (Puppy raising antics is a blog post for another day, when I'm over the trauma from raising the last puppy.) Cake pops start with a bag of candy melts and a bottle of nonpareils, well 4 so you can have enough white ones to do 2 dozen sheep, and three bottles of flat sprinkles to get enough white ones to make the eyes. Then you run back to the store to get the edible markers at $8 for 5 of them so you can add those cutesy details. Then to use some of the other nonpareils, you get more melts and one warehouse club size jug of pretzel alphabet letters so you can use all the E's for moose antlers. Oh and then 4 containers of candy coated sunflower seeds at $8 a bottle so you can dig out all the red and yellow ones, so you can at least use the Y's from the pretzles for the feet of some turkey cake pops, and so on and so on.
By the time your done you've spent $3000, you've got a mess beyond belief, and wondering what in the HELL made you think this was a GOOD idea to begin with!
So just like puppies, I'll enjoy those cute little round bumpkins of joy from photos, 'cuz I ain't making any (so don't get any crazy ideas you'll be seeing pics of them here) and I ain't bringing home any puppies.
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