For America's Birthday I made some patriotic cake pops using red, white, and blue sprinkles.

I think they look like a nuclei. Redhead thinks they look like celestial bodies. They're more celestial against a black background.

Guess what flavor they were?

If you guessed lemon cake, you're right.

via dangerousminds.net

Joy Division Unknown Pleasures cake

I LOVE this Joy Division Unknown Pleasures cake. I also love Joy Division, but not as much as Chris Cain. I guess also not as much as New Order...lots of overlap there. Thanks for sharing Chris!

I'm a vegetarian, so I don't eat animals, but I will eat animal cake pops (and Animal pops!). I never liked that "Do vegetarians eat animal crackers" joke. When it comes to cake pops, yes, yes we do eat animal cake pops.

Fabulous photographer Aimee Wenske and I teamed up for some fun cake pop pictures. This time, we added a chalkboard.

Eek bloody red velvet beef. I guess this guy is rare.

The pigs were our favorite pops.

Here's the pig cake pop from as seen from a bird cake pop's eye view.

Photos by Aimee Wenske

I made a United States cake slice for lil Phan when she came back this 4th of July weekend.

Lucky for me I had already baked a cake. She randomly came to Austin last minute.

Happy July 4th everyone. And Happy Birthday America.

The heart is for Texas.

Photos by Tina Phan

So you guys know my friend Sharon, right? Sharon Loves This?

Well, she's getting married this weekend. And I made her these Hello Kitty cake pops for her bachelorette party (which was really a delicious dinner at our favorite restaurant, Vespaio. Sounds like my kind of party.)

All the girls were enamored by the cake pops. Success! I'll post some pictures from Sharon's bachelorette party at a later date.

I used Bakerella's Hello Kitty cake pop tutorial and adapted the bow. I went with a little pink confetti sprinkle as the middle instead of an M&M mini. The flatness of the sprinkle was definitely easier to adhere to Hello Kitty's cake pop head.

I swear, I almost died from cuteness while I was making these.

I even made a her a personalized cake pop stand.

I'm going to go ahead and say Sharon Loved This.

The redhead’s Aggie cousin, Reese, got married a few weeks ago in College Station. I planned on making a few bride and groom cake pops for the wedding, but strange things happened and the cake plans were popped.

At the family Easter gathering (when the Easter cake pops article had just "dropped") Nicole’s, the fiancee's, dad said it would be fun if I could make Reese and Nicole pops. I wholeheartedly agreed. What better way to celebrate a marriage than by eating a cake pop of the bride and groom’s face? I'm pretty sure that's a ritual in some culture - and if not, perhaps it should be.

For their wedding rehearsal dinner, I crafted them each a cake pop portrait. Due to extreme Texas heat compounded by my own forgetfulness (I left the pops in a car) the cake pops melted into a mushy mess.

Chris said that Reese looked a little too much like Bobby Hill anyway (pre-melt).

I told Nicole’s mom that I would re-make the portrait pops. And though I couldn’t get it done for the wedding, I still kept my end of the promise - a little late.

I used Facebook for research on facial structure. Thanks Mark Zuckerberg.

Nicole’s head is a little bigger than than I hoped. Sorry Nicole. I hope you still like your bride cake pop.

Here’s to Reese and Nicole. Non-cake pop pictures from the wedding to follow.

My friend Eric is a drummer. Sometimes he drums for City of Ships.

Naturally, I wanted to make drum cake pops for his birthday. At first I thought I might make single drums. After a while I remembered that when I asked to borrow some drumsticks (see Roussos post and scroll to the end) he asked if I was going to be Animal. Lightbulb moment, I could make him an Animal Muppet cake pop with a cake pop drum set. Jim Henson inspired cake pop magic ensued.

I asked Monica, his super cute and crafty girlfriend, about his favorite flavor of cake. She named a few faves--I went with German Chocolate. The redhead and lil Phan got to eat some of the uglies and they both think German chocolate cake pops are the best flavor. I think it has something to do with the texture of coconut pecan frosting.

Eric related shout out: Eric's mom Amy makes super yummy treats. I love the days when Eric has extras and hands ones over to me. Amy's blog is yumtastic.

Lots of blogger ladies in his life. A sign of a good guy? I think so.

Animal vs. Buddy Rich in a drum-off.

These photos were taken by lil Phan aka Tina Phan Photography. Thanks lil Phan.

This Easter I made Bakerella's Spring Chicken Pops for the redhead's family's* Easter dinner held at his grandmother's house.

Note: Although it is the redhead's family's Easter dinner, not everyone present is actually a redhead.

I fenced in these little pops and brought them as dessert. Redhead's grandma saved the Austin American-Statesman article from earlier in the week and showed it to everyone. She even cut out the teaser from a different newspaper and saved it. Super sweet. I felt like a real grandkid.

I made sure the redhead's grandma could eat some of these cake pops. Instead of strawberry cake, I went with yellow cake with chocolate frosting and funfetti with white frosting--no allergies to those flavors.

With two cake flavors, it was definitely cake pops galore.

There were some sober chicks...

And a Drunk Chick.

A hole formed around the candy coating on this cake pop. I decided to work with it.

I love the chick hairdos. Check them out from the aerial view taken from the cameracopter.

This post's photos were taken by lil Phan aka Tina Phan Photography. Thanks lil Phan!

Here's a great soundtrack for reading or rereading this post: LCD Soundsystem's Drunk Girls

The Wednesday before Easter, my cake pops were featured in the Food & Life section of the Austin American-Statesman.

Photo Courtesy Tina Phan

Not only were my cake pops featured, I asked to have Aimee Wenske take the pictures and the Statesman said yes. A HUGE yay for both of us! Yay for teamwork. For us, this is major. Hopefully this will be the first of many good things.

Lesson learned: Sometimes, you just need to ask.

Here's how it happened:
I was sitting on the SXSW shuttle when I saw a new comment to my blog. At first I was excited. I love comments. I started reading and it was none other than Addie Broyles, food writer for the Statesman. Wow she reads my blog AND comments. I keep reading...she's doing a story on Easter treats and would love to talk...OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! We talk, and then it happens. My boss gives me 1.5 days off to make cake pops.

For the story, I wanted to make something Easter-y that wasn't too cliche. I came up with Fabrege egg pops. Addie, also wanted to have some cute, kid friendly cake pops that parents and kids could make together for Easter. So, we made Bakerella's Spring Chicken Pops and bunny pops to go with the fancy Fabrege egg cake pops. Thanks Bakerella.

I was able to borrow the redhead's grandmother's huge, gorgeous, and well-lit kitchen and the set up was perfect for a cake pop story. My kitchen would have been inadequate.

Addie was super nice I had a lot of fun making cake pops with her. I am so thankful for this wonderful opportunity. Thanks Addie.

I'm so glad I wore my cute cupcake apron, the pink cupcake pattern looked great against the pre-dipped pink strawberry cake pops.

Thanks everyone for your support in my cake pops.

The full story and photo gallery on Austin 360 and Addie's take on cake pops at her blog, Relish Austin.

Chris, Lil Phan, my coworkers, Lil Phan and Chris' coworkers ate leftover pops for about a week after the shoot. In the end, we all win except Chris' grandmother who is allergic to strawberries. Don't worry, I made her a non-strawberry batch for Easter.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to translate "Cake Pop" into Vietnamese and explain the phenomenon to my mother. This should be tricky.