"it's been a minute"

that's coworker Claire (see previous post) speak for "it's been a long time".  

and it's been a minute since i made cake pops.  

but my spanish professor asked me to make some for her sister-in-law. 

so i did. 

and the process went something like this... 

 first i made the little balls.  this is when i started putting some love into them.  because let me tell you.  the night before there was NO LOVE in the cake or the frosting. none at all.  it was a love abyss.  because i actually really didn't want to make them and was the taddest bit resentful.

 then i dipped the sticks in candy melt, all at once.  a great idea, right?  then it sets on better. 

 and it looked cool when they were all done.  but it was actually a terrible idea.  i don't know if they stayed on the sticks better or worse, but i do know that i ran out of pink candy melts and ended up having blue cake pops with a pink dot on the bottom.  trashy.  also trashy?  the fact that i used baby colors.  but i wasn't asked to make them until almost 10pm the night before they were needed.  so i actually don't feel so bad about it. 

 i was complaining to my sister about how much i didn't want to make them during the stage when i wasn't putting any love into them.  she said "tell them you dropped the cake pops".  and i said "no no, it's finnish cookie sticks that i always drop at least one tray of, inevitably".  

so you can bet there was a great deal of laughter the next day (when there was love--if this had happened when i had no loved i would NOT have been laughing) when the cake pops fell off the table and onto the floor. 

 i tried to make them look a little less baby-ish by adding glitter to some of them.  i don't think it helped much. 

and of course, the rejects went to work with me.