It’s almost Valentine’s Day and I spent last weekend baking up a storm. These cake pops, plus heart shaped sugar cookies and some special flourless cupcakes with pink frosting are all coming your way. Each time I make cake pops, I find more ways to make them more easily and quickly (I’ll have to compile [...]

“Those cake pops were seriously the best cake pops I’ve ever had! Even better than Freeport Bakery.” This high praise comes from a former co-worker, Mariel. For her last day in our office, I wanted to bake something special as a surprise. I knew she liked cake pops and salted caramel (she requested that I [...]

Whew! Christmas is over. No more shopping (except after-Christmas sales). No more parties (until New Years). No more holiday desserts (except on this blog)…maybe things won’t change that much after all. I have a couple of desserts from the holidays to share with you this week. The first are these adorable snowmen cake pops. I [...]

To my regular readers, these might look a little familiar since they look almost identical to the peppermint chocolate cake pops that I posted on Monday. But as the saying goes, don’t judge a book by it’s cover because… …inside the white chocolate/crushed candy cane shell of these pops isn’t cake – it’s whoopie pies! Chocolate and [...]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Which means it’s time for cookies, gingerbread houses, and everything peppermint chocolate! To kick off the holiday season, I decided to recreate Starbuck’s new holiday cake pop, peppermint brownie. No offense to them, but I was pretty sure I could make a better version at home and with [...]