Cake Pops are the Devil

The oh so popular cake pops. Such a simple concept.  They are such a great idea and good god, so delightfully delicious. But sweet jesus, has anyone else encountered the royal pain in the butt they are?

You see, I made them awhile back, to see what all the fuss is about. They were well received. Then I tried to replicate them, into pops. The cake pops weren't as big of a hit and not to mention how long they took to make. You see, each batch makes an exorbitant amount of cake pops. So you roll, roll, roll some more and dip dip dip. It's quite the affair. So I made the executive decision that this is one of those trends I am not going to partake in.

Until Christmas. When I got the bug again. So I made some HUGE cake balls. I listened to Sir Sunderland's bad advice to use regular chocoalte chips when I ran out of almond bark. Lets just say, these were the final straw.

Until (this is like a horror film, where you want to just yell at the girl to NOT GO IN THE DARK HOUSE!).....Sir Sunderland's brother's girlfriend (did you get that?) had never heard of cake pops before. So, naturally I felt the need to introduce her to them.

We made our first batch and with two people they suddenly didn't seem like such a tedious chore. I handed them out to co-workers, our daycare lady, they were a hit. I was back on top, sharing the delicious treat that is the cake ball with the masses.

I decided cake balls just elicits giggles over the word 'balls' so I went for truffle instead

 So we made a date to venture forth into cake pop land and make  hello kitty cake pops. (this is where you once again yell at the screen, NOOOO! THE MURDERER IS IN THE HELLO KITTY CAKE POPS!!! HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS?!?!?)

After a weekend of buying all the little candies, sprinkles, sticks, styrofoam (I just bought the almond bark, but I feel the need to complain about how many little things she had to get) we made the cake pops.

For starters, the ears (white chocolate chips) melted upon being dipped into the melted almond bark. Next, the freaking wilton cake pen didn't write on the almond bark. So we were left to our own devices. 

Piped melted chocolate

Painstakingly toothpicked food dye

My attempt at making it just a normal cat

Then I wanted to try to make ladybug cake pops.

And this was the best one out of the bunch (which I didn't make).

Needless to say, we were frustrated and left with what seemed like 1,000 of these misshapen cat head cake pops that took an entire day to create. Please, someone remind me if I ever decide to venture into cake pops again, to just say no. Bakerella and all her 'pop stars' (please imagine me doing giant air quotes while rolling eyes) might make it seem easy, but just remember, it's not your forte. Stick to cupcakes.