Pink Strawberry Cake Pops

I had the pleasure of creating these adorable strawberry shaped cake pops for a little girl's 1st birthday party!

The pops are made of red velvet cake mixed with cream cheese frosting and dipped in vanilla candy coating.

Wanna know how to make them?  It's simple!  Just takes time.

I simply shaped the cake mixture into pyramid shapes, let them chill, then dipped them in the candy coating and attached the sugar pearls while the coating was still wet {you have to work super fast... food safe tweezers come in handy!}

Lastly, color your gum paste to the desired green color and roll out about 1/16 inch thickness.  Cut out the leaves with a small sized fondant cutter (or cookie cutter), roll out a little ball for the stem and attach with a drop of water.  Let gum paste harden slightly then attach to the pops with a dab of melted candy melt.  Brush with sparkly edible glitter!

I am always so pleased and so happy when my customers love their pops.  It takes a lot of precious time and love to make these! 

here is a picture my customer sent to me... love the labels she made for her daughter's birthday party!

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Road Trip Day 9: California!

Oh thank goodness... we finally reached California!  We traveled through the Death Valley National Park {and on side note, maybe don't drive your 26 foot Penske truck through it?!  the mountains are very tall and very steep...}  

We had a blast and enjoyed it thoroughly!  

 We jumped out for a second to look at the old Borax mining stuff...

Then we saw this little blonde furball running through the super hot dessert whhhaaat?!  We were literally gone for 3 minutes and she busted out of the window and came looking for us.  

OMG

I almost had a heart attack when I saw her running out there.

But she does look rather pleased with her naughty self, doesn't she?

Badwater Basin... the lowest elevation in the US!  The camera didn't capture it well, but the salt had a variety of colors.

Some random sand dunes in the park!  They looked like mini pyramids.

And yes, we came down those mountains with the truck.  Even my car tires were smoking a little bit never-mind the truck's... hence, the side note: drive only normal cars in this park....!

And last but not least... we drove through the Mojave Desert and skirted around the Sierra Nevadas which had this crazy scary snow storm that we thankfully missed!

And we continued on until the ungodly hour of 4 am when we reached the Bay Area, our new and most favorite home!

Road Trip Day 8 - Nevada

I decided to do some much needed housekeeping on the good old blog and decided I have to publish the rest of our road trip pics!

Enjoy these photos of Nevada... one of my favorite places to drive through... because it looks like another planet!  And the mountains are HUGE!

  We spent the night in Beatty, Nevada which is only a few miles away from the California border and the entrance into the Death Valley National Park.  What an interesting quirky little itty bitty town!


  And right down the road is one of the most famous mining Ghost Towns: Rhyolite.

  Of course we went at dusk and I started to creep myself out!  But I am a sucker for these types of things.  Love me some history!

...and some artist placed these creepy ghosts on the outskirts of the "town"... *shudder*

If you missed the last Road Trip post, you can check it out here!!!