I love glass sculptures and stained glass art. When I walked into an old church, the first thing I look for is the stained glass. At the right hour, the art comes alive. Hard candy has the light catching properties of glass, so when I was given free hand on a diving cake, I jumped […]
Often times, the cake pops are part of a much larger setup, but I’m working ‘blind’ because I don’t see the other elements. The mom sent me the party invite and banner early on so I made the birds based on the invite. She was very happy with the cake pops and sent me the […]
Although I make cake pops, and having made thousands of pops, would consider myself an expert at putting things on a stick, I am actually not enamoured of cookie pops. Cookies, to me, look better flat. In fact, a cookie, beautifully and intricately piped, is a celebration of a 2-dimensional piece of art. To add […]
The Minecraft them is the bane of many cake decorators. They are made up of pixels! Images must be made up of little cut up blocks and therefore take a long time to finish. I made these together with the Minecraft cake pops, so I followed the same design. The TNT had lines, and the […]
A good friend wanted to surprise her cousin on her birthday. So she commissioned these cake pops and the cake pops were delivered to the birthday girl on her birthday. I delighted in this project because they were boozy cake pops. I generally don’t drink a lot of alcohol but if I do, I like […]
I felt a bit guilty about these octopus cake pops. They have only 5 legs. When I was making the legs out of modelling chocolate, my kids were saying, “that’s not an octopus, that’s a starfish!” They changed their minds when they saw the finished product. But I still felt guilty. What was I […]
These crab cake pops looked simple but I had some grief with them. Firstly, I had to think long and hard about the legs. They needed to be thin and flexible, so could not be biscuits or anything like that. They were to be couriered so had to be made of something that would not […]
First, the bad part. I was packing 300 cake pops in 2 hours and had no time to take photos. I hastily grabbed some random pops and placed in a position where there was some light and clicked quickly. A bad photo is nothing Photoshop can fix. *sniff* Photos are all I have of my […]
Rainbow style cake pops are best made with a minimum of 60 pops – because I have a minimum of 10 per colour, and because you need the most striking colours, and if you can’t do seven, the least you can do is six. The client and I agreed that utilising one simple design would […]