pink cake pops

I guess the cake pops must be delicious because I had my first birthday party order - for pink cake pops - 3rd birthday luau theme at the pool!  She loooooves pink, so the cake pops had to be pink on the inside and on the outside.  Since I haven't received my special candy coating coloring agent, I was going to have to figure out a better way to turn the outside of the cake pop pinkalicious.  I decided on pink sugar crystals because what better way to incorporate pink than sparkly pink!

First, I made a cake.  Half vanilla cake with red food coloring and half red velvet cake.  I then made cream cheese frosting, and added red food coloring for a light pink hue.  

half and half cake

cream cheese frosting turns pink

After the prep work, I got to work...

get the cake out of the pan

smash the cake

add frosting to the cake

fold the frosting into the cake

add more frosting because cake needs to be fully coated

 

now you're ready to place in fridge so you can roll into golf ball sized cake balls

 

 

 

 

after rolling into balls, putting sticks in, dipping in white chocolate and coating in pink sugar crystals

pink fun for any age!

For the set up I followed the beach theme:  the mom brought luau skirts to place around the styrofoam blocks which we had to cut to fit all the way around.  She also brought flip flop shaped jelly candies for added flair.  Since I was aware of this, I brought sparkly pink writing gel so that the gummies had something to stick to so the flip flops wouldn't fall off of the top of the pop.  And for added effect, I brought pureed graham crackers for "sand" so that those mountain kiddos would really feel like they were at the beach.  Mahalo!

Party Time!