Yay, Asa finally posts more cake pops (and more to come)! For valentine's, I got some requests for cake pops, which I was planning on doing already. One of my friends wanted to learn more on how to make them, and the whole situation turned into a cake pop making party. Hors d'oeuvres, mimosas and all! Between the 5 of us at this brunch...we must have made more than 80 or 90 cake pops! It was a lot of fun, creation, and food! Here are the end results, just in time for valentine's day!

LOTS of photos!

 Photos by The Chocolate Cookie

 This Christmas I sent little "care packages" to my family and Jon's parents. In addition to the fudge and cake balls, I made some quick wintery sugar cookies too! I didn't have a lot of time to take photos so this is about all I've got for you :-). I am also currently looking for my lost recipe :(  so I will have to post it later.

 Hello, sweets-eaters! So, the last few months I have been dabbling in something new, something amazing! Cake pops! I made some cute Halloween ones and some pink ones which I may still post later, but today I bring you cake pops full of Christmas spirit: Santa and elf hat pops! Some of you know of what I speak; others of you are probably asking what a cake pop is. A cake pop (originally invented by the one and only, Bakerella.) is basically delicious cake, molded into a "cake ball" and gloriously made into a' pop' by dipping it in candy coating or melted chocolate. If you are a chocoholic like me, or simply a sweet-o-holic, you cannot tread this earth without trying one....or 20! 

Christmas time is HERE!! Everything about this time of year makes me happy and puts me in the Christmas spirit: the smell of pine trees, the colors of red and green everywhere you look, and Christmas lights blanketing every street, house and tree! But probably most of all, it's the sweet taste and smell of all the warm holiday treats that materialize out of every kitchen, including mine. I started this blog in January of last year and so we have not yet had a taste of the holidays here at the Chocolate Cookie. (I've also been slacking a lot the last few months on posting recipes.) So it's time to seriously bring on the sweets, and finish out the year with 12 Treats of Christmas!  

With everyone warming people up with their peppermint coffees and other peppermint goodies this time of year, I figured this would be a good time to do some more cupcakes. So I made a chocolate cupcake, with chocolate peppermint ganache and peppermint swirl buttercream.

Happy Independence Day!!!

Today, in Honor of our wonderful country, those who fight for us, and the celebration that is the 4th of July, I made a Patriotic "Lemonade" Red White and Blue cupcake! This morning I got up and made some fresh squeezed lemonade and infused these cupcakes with a little of it. These babies looked SPECTACULAR, but the 'lemonade' flavor didn't quite come through in the cake, the frosting however was very delicious and lemonade-esque. Though they rose just fine, they do need some work because they were a little tough; I think it was from over-stirring when I dyed the red and blue portions of batter. Oh well, they still represented today's festivities marvelously!