Easter Cake Balls

I only got a picture of the purple ones, but there were also pink, white, and chocolate "eggs"

I am a terrible blogger, and I did not take any picture of the cute cake balls that I made for Easter, except for one poorly lit picture taken with my camera phone. I apologize.

They were nowhere NEAR as cute as the Easter Egg cake pops that Bakerella made, and I have insane respect for her cake pop making skills. I had no idea how difficult it was to make egg-looking cake balls, until I actually tried it.

It's a lot harder than it looks. Plus, you gotta get all the sprinkles on there, and sometimes the balls fall off the sticks, and they all looked lumpy...

I made 150 of the pops, though, to give away to my friends and professors on campus. Strawberry, yellow, and chocolate cake, with white (it was also pink and purple) or milk chocolate. Needless to say, I definitely got some good practice in. And thankfully, they still tasted amazing!

Maybe one day my pops will be good enough to be featured on Bakerella's blog in the Pop Star section, but then again, maybe I should just stick with cupcakes and cakes?

Edit: I lied. I did find one more picture saved on my phone:

Don't judge. This was only my first attempt. :-P

Carrot Cake

Easter is coming up, and that seems to be the favorite time for carrot cake lovers. Probably because the Easter Bunny is partial to this particular delicious and, um, healthy (oh, let a girl dream, right?) dessert.

I've only successfully made a carrot cake once, and this was years and years ago, before I found out that you could make a cream cheese icing that held up to piping and use gel pastes instead of liquid food coloring to tint the icing.

But, I think this cake still looks pretty cute, even if I was unsure of my garland-creating abilities at the time.

The best part, though was the taste. I used a carrot cake recipe in a cookbook of my grandma's; I can't remember what it's called at this time, but I'm pretty sure that cookbook is still sitting on a bookshelf somewhere in my kitchen, with flour and butter all over the page with the recipe on it.

I even grated my own carrots. That's why I made the cake, actually, because we had too many carrot sitting in our fridge, and they were in danger of becoming gross if we didn't eat them fast enough.

The carrot grating certainly wasn't the most fun part, considering all that elbow grease I had to put into (plus my fingers were stained orange), but the cake was really delicious and really moist... perhaps too moist. One of the three layers didn't make it out of the pan. But that doesn't mean it went uneaten!

This year for Easter I'm not planning on baking anything, since I won't be going home, but  I hope that everyone else who's planning on cooking and baking this holiday has a successful and tasty time of it!

My Favorite Cookies Ever

I know that I say this every time (remember these? and these? and these?), but these cookies are my favorites.  They're so happy and springy and festive and colorful and...

Well, you get the point.

Since they are so darn cute, I'll let the pictures speak for me.  Sorry you can't taste them, but they're as good as they look! :)

 

  

  

  

Have a blessed and happy Easter, everyone!