Valentine Cake Balls & Pops

So this time I decided to try some Cake Balls in addition to doing some new pops.  For the balls I decided I would use an arrangment of decorations with the Red Velvet cake.  For the pops I wanted to go back to old faithful - Strawberry cake.  Yummm!

One thing I didn't know was how RED red velvet cake is.  I've never made a red velvet cake before honestly.  Goodness I got everything covered in that red stuff.  My hands and everything was stained red for at least a few days.

Here is how my Cake Balls turned out: 

Not too bad.  As you notice the one's in the front of the picture look larger.  That is because after trying the first ball - it was sooooo big it took 4 bites.  So I cut the ball size down in half.  Those are the lighter colored balls in the back.  Much easier to eat.

For a few of them I used my candy molds and created this super cute look!  First you put a bit of candy coating in the mold.  Drop in the cake ball.  Once the mold is hardened - pop it out and dip the top hald into the 2nd color candy coating.  Love how these look!

Now for the Cake pops!  For Valentine's Day I decided to go with Candy Hearts. 

Like I said in my other post about Cake Pops - the colored candy coating is not as good as coloring the white candy.  It stays smoother and thinner and easy to coat.  I also find that freezing the shaped balls makes them much easier to dip. 








My husband the comedian that he is... loves to play jokes with his co-workers.  So for the fun of it we made some of these fun Candy Heart sayings:

For everyone else - I did yellow, pink and green.  Cute saying like: I like you, Thank You, Be Mine and I love you.  They were a big hit again.  Lots of good feedback.   I'm thinking about trying to make some tulips or maybe honey bees for the Spring!  Loving making these!  So fun!!