Valentine’s Day Treats

My friend Mallory and I made more cake pops!  

This time with the pink, red and white theme of Valentine’s Day.  (Okay a lot of them were cake balls because those are MUCH easier to make.)

(P. S. Have you checked out my Valentine’s Day link-up yet??  Link up your Valentine’s Day treats and check out the others featured!)

I made 3 different cake flavors and they all turned out amazing: 

• Strawberry with cream cheese frosting
• Cherry chip with cream cheese frosting
• Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting
• {See my last cake pops post for “how-tos”}

(I would say each cake makes about 24 cake pops/balls..just FYI!)

I loved the pink effect the strawberry cake had.

We used candy melts on the outside.  If you’ve never heard of candy melts, they are basically colored almond bark, which is a revolution in itself.

Have you ever tried to add food coloring to almond bark?  Well..it doesn’t work.

Pink candy melts

It will become a chunky, non-melty consistency, so don’t try it.  Just get candy melts! 🙂

Whether you have a “Valentine” in your life or not, you can enjoy creating these yummy treats for yourself, friends, co-workers..we brought some of these to work and they were demolished in minutes.

And better yet, make them with a friend!  Mallory and I had fun being creative, getting cake and frosting in our nails and, of course, chatting about life.  She is such a sweet Christian friend.  It’s very refreshing to be able to discuss faith and work and boys all in the same sitting!

I heart you Malalalory!

I have a feeling we will be getting together very soon for our next cake pop project. 🙂

Oh and what to do with the leftover candy melts and sprinkles that have fallen onto your handy sprinkle-catcher plate?  Don’t waste it!  

Find pretzels or crackers to dip them in the almond bark, lay on waxed paper (or paper plates) and sprinkle the leftover sprinkles!

Now I will give the rest of my cake balls and cake pops and lovely Valentine’s Day pretzels to the person who comes over and cleans up my mess while I finish my Chemistry homework.  Takers??  I even covered the entire table with waxed paper for easy clean-up!

What?  You don’t want to clean up my crazy mess??

Happy Valentine’s Day anyhow!


And make sure to stop by my Valentine’s Day link-up!  You can post your treats/crafts there all week!

Do you enjoy baking with friends?


What’s your absolute favorite flavor of cake and frosting?

 

Linking up to:

Share Your Stuff Tuesdays with Erin at Table for Seven

Tasty Tuesdays with Anyonita Nibbles

Show and Share Wednesday with Kelly at Mostly Homemade Mom