Easter is coming up quick! We are heading out of town tomorrow to celebrate Easter with B’s side of the family. B is an accountant and this is the first weekend since being released from the bondage of tax season (yay!!). It will be nice to get away for a few days.
I had an idea for an edible centerpiece using cake pops and cookies. So while making cake pops this week, I decided to make some easter egg cake pops as well.
Working with the melted chocolate was quite a humbling experience. Certainly not as easy as it looks! My eggs didn’t turn out like I had envisioned.
They don’t exactly scream Easter... In fact, they pretty much look like a hot mess.
Tonight I decorated the big and small cookies, dressed up a small vase-thing I had, and ta-da! An edible centerpiece.
What about you... Any Easter projects? Or, cake pop projects gone bad?
And, I'm not positive, but this one may or may not be getting ready to hatch a tiny dragon...
But, oh well, Easter must go on!
As for the cookies for my centerpiece, remember my cookie experiments last weekend? I wanted to try making cookie pops and mini cookie pops.
These are actually a total snap! I'm definitely looking forward to more excuses to make these.
For the little cookies I just rolled the dough out like I normally would for my cookies.
I inserted the toothpicks carefully and baked as usual.
Then I just cooked them as usual. It was really that easy!
These would make such a cute topper for cupcakes. You could use any shape or even cut out letters to spell someone’s name.
For the big cookie pops I rolled my dough extra thick, just shy of half an inch, and cut out cookies like normal. While the dough was still raw, I gently inserted a 6-inch lollipop stick into the cookie. It goes it pretty easily if you twist it slightly while inserting it.
I flipped my cookies over to check if the stick had broken through the dough on the bottom side and in three out of four cookies, it had. On those ones I just took a little dough and pressed it flat with my fingers and patched it up. Then I put that side face-down on the pan.
I cooked them a couple minutes longer than usual since they were so thick.
They cooked up beautifully and the lollipop sticks didn’t catch on fire in the oven so that’s a plus! Not that I was irrationally worried about that or Googled incessantly in preparation to make sure it was okay.
But all was well and they came out great!
What about you... Any Easter projects? Or, cake pop projects gone bad?
Wait, are you saying the third picture down doesn't scream Easter and looks like a hot mess? 'Cause unless you posted the wrong picture, you are some kind of crazy perfectionist! They look great!! And the finished product - wow! A thing of beauty. I wish I had one-tenth the patience and concentration you have to accomplish such a thing :) I also wish you were around during E and L's birthdays. I have to develop some basic baking skills or they will never have an interesting cake! lol
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