Christmas Cake Pops

Usually, when I spend Christmas with my bf and his family, its tradition to always make and eat a whole bunch of tamales :P On the news tonight, I heard that more than 50,000 tamales were being sold during the holiday season. O_o
This Christmas, I'm spending it with my family and family friends :) And they celebrate it differently.
I notice a lot of people baking. O_o
I don't know very many Christmas cookie recipes O_o But I was inspired by Bakerella's reindeer, snowman, and Christmas tree cake pops so I thought it would be a good idea to make some to share. :P
If you like to bake, you should check her site out. :) I think she's pretty good!
Her Christmas cake pops: (Click here).

I used:

1. Cake mix


2. Candy Melt



3. Assorted Sprinkles



4. Chocolate Coated Sunflower seeds (orange ones for snowman carrot nose)
 

5. Black Colored Decorating Icing (for details like the pupils of the reindeer)


6. Lollipop Sticks




7. m&m's (red color for reindeer noses):
 

How I made them:

I followed Bakerella's tutorial on how to prepare :)
So I baked the cake, made it into crumbs, then added enough icing to make the cake crumbs easier to shape.

Snowman:

Vanilla Cake rolled into ball-shapes (two sizes; one for the head and the other for the body)

Place two on a lollipop stick.

Ready to be dunked into the White Colored Candy Melt!

I placed my candy melt bowl in a bowl of hot water because it was cold and the candy melt was turning solid too fast.

All covered in yummyness! :P

Stick it in a piece of Styrofoam or cardboard to let it dry. :)

I used a chocolate coated sunflower seed for his nose and chocolate candy melt for his eyes and mouth.

Hi! (We were planning to add more decorations but we got tired. :P)

Christmas Trees:

Vanilla flavored cake shaped in upside-down cones. :)

MmmmMMmmmm... Green candy melt.

Decorate with sprinkles! :P These were the last things we made. :P Can you tell? ahha :P looks a bit sloppy. :P

Reindeer:

Reindeer are made out of chocolate cake... -___-; I am fully aware that this picture does not look too aesthetically pleasing. :P But I promise you the outcome will be much much cuter! :3

Stick one of these ugly things onto the lollipop stick as well. :P

Dunk it in Chocolate Candy Melt... hm.. still looks ugly... >< Even my mom was having doubts about the outcome. :P

Mom helped me make some 'antlers' :P

Cutting pretzels in half looked pretty hard but I thought mom did a great job. :P

Aww... its starting to look cute now. :P I was so happy my sister helped me make these reindeer. :P She's so good! The nose is a red m&m, by the way.

LOOK OUT!!! HE'S POSESSED!!!

Aww... that's better. :) But why is he crossed-eyed?????

Because a snowflake fell on his nose!!! :P

Oh... this one has one on his forehead! O_O

BEHOLD!!!! An army of silly reindeer!!! :P

All packaged, ready to be delivered! :)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYBODY!!! :)
I hope you have a great one! :3

Eat Me!

Baking is one of my hobbies and I just wanted to share some of the things I had made:

I love Beard Papa's cream puffs and I still need to improve on my cream puff-making skills but this is how it turned out :p

My aunt owns a bakery and I used to help her make these cream puffs. I still have her pastry recipe but I've somehow lost her custard/cream filling recipe :( So I'm in search for a good one. Care to share yours? :P
acutelife had shared me her cookie recipe before and it was so yummy! :) Thank you so much!!! You guys should check her blog (My little rentata) out! Her food posts always make me hungry :p

 Sorry about the picture quality (I took this picture with my phone) but I had also made some roll cake. I found the recipe online somewhere and used http://master-pastry.com's technique from this video:  Swiss Roll - How To Make a Swiss Roll Cake
Awesome resource if you like baking ;)

And last but not least, I had made some spritz cookies! :P It was interesting to know that cookies could be shaped by piping it :p I'll show you guys how I made them if you want to see :)

Do you have any yummy recipes you want to share? I'm always interested in trying new things :)

Inspired by Bakerella's Cake Pops!

I was so inspired by Bakerella's cake pops, I had to try it myself!

I didn't use any lollipop sticks because I didn't have any. :P
This was my first time making them and they came out to be a bit sloppy but it was a very fun baking experience! :)