I am a big fan of Bakerella! Her pictures of her gourmet treats are just incredible. I get hungry every time I click over there. After craving her red velvet cake pops for quite some time, I gathered up the ingredients with high hopes of perfecting these and wowing everyone with my new found talent!

red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting

I baked my red velvet cake, let it cool and then mixed in a can of cream cheese frosting…yumo!

cake on a stick!

I rolled this sweet cake into little balls, and carefully inserted a stick into each ball before putting them in the freezer for several hours, anticipating the excitement to dip them into my pink bark. I picked pink in honor of breast cancer.

I melted a bag of pink meltaways from Michael’s and starting dipping….

Bakerella I am NOT!

I dipped, the cake started coming apart, it was not smooth, the sticks were coming out too! My visions of becoming famous in my hometown for cake pops were gone in a dip! With each dip the got uglier and uglier! I just started laughing at each one! I even had an audience for this adventure…they laughed with me…not at me!

tray of ugly

This is my end result….Bakerella I am not. But, I will tell you that the taste was DIVINE! They were so yummy! Rich red velvet cake with that sweet cream cheese frosting in the perfect bite size treat.

I will attempt again…I have not given up. I dream of one day having a tray of perfect looking cake pops!

Even though these were not a huge success in the visual department I sure have enjoyed eating them! So, I will enter them into Kimba’s DIY day for a chance at her wonderful giveaway’s she has on Tuesdays. Who knows, maybe she will take pity on my failure!

I’m a total wedding cake girl!  I will never leave the wedding until the cake has been cut and I’ve had my slice!  The cake matters to me!  I think the taste needs to be equally representative of the look.  I’m a total critic on the taste.  

I’ve been watching Cake Boss on TLC.  Last nights episode totally got me in the mood for wedding cakes.  Here is a few of my favorites I found on a quick search.
Love the idea of chocolate frosting on this one…and the pink roses are soooo pretty!
How about the elegance of this one?  I love the bows and of course the chocolate brown!
How about this for some color?  Maybe some fuchsia brides maid dresses?  Ok, just kidding on that one…but I do have a “gem” in my closet that would look fabulous.  
I would so have a beach wedding with this fabulous cake!!!!
This is very different.  Maybe the cake of some graphic designers?
Loving the two side cakes and the fondant bows! 
How about the boldness and elegance of black and red???