Thom likes to tease me about all the food photos I like to take. I have to admit that maybe it is a little excessive but I always want to get a good photo to post here on the ole blog….I mean who doesn’t want things to look nice and receive accolades and compliments! What you don’t see are the 200 bad photos that it took do get a decent enough shot.
So….I’ve seen cake pops on a million blogs. They’re clever and adorable, and seemingly something I could do. Uhhh…yea. Not so much. It didn’t mention anywhere in the recipe/directions that you had to have tons of patience to get these guys done. I couldn’t even get a couple to look good enough to fake a “good” photo. In fact…I had only enough patience to actually decorate 3 pops….actually, that’s not entirely true. I think I had about 3 more decorated up to look like mummies, but I ate them out of frustration while trying to finish the others.
Perhaps I was having a bad night. Maybe it was too late to start such an auspicious project. Or maybe I didn’t have the right ingredients {is vanilla almond bark a good sub for candy melts? my guess? Not so much}. Or maybe there’s just something I’m not good at! In any case, this is what I’ve got- five partially finished cake pops, a bad photo, and a deflated ego. I’m thinking about trying again when I’m in a better frame of mind. I mean….I have a whole bowl of squishy cake in the fridge!
In case you’re wondering, this is what they’re really supposed to look like. Happy haunting!
