Catching Up!

Wow! So sorry you guys for not keeping up with my blog. Ever since I created Ditzy Delights, I've been super busy with custom orders, Valentine's Day orders, my two year old, and finishing up my classes. I actually finished my associate's degree on Valentine's Day! Talk about BEST V-day present ever! I officially graduate with an Associate of Science Medical Billing and Coding degree on Feb 25th. Instead of returning to school this March, I decided to take the rest of this semester off and return to school to start on my bachelors degree in May. So that means that I'll get a lot of work complete with Ditzy Delights! Woo hoo! I'll be able to set up a PayPal account, work out an official menu and price list, and more importantly.. come up with new ideas for cakepops and such. Before I show pictures of what I've been up to, I have a surprise! For Valentine's Day, my wonderful mom bought me a Cricut Cake cutter!!! It is literally the COOLEST thing ever. My mom has the original [scrapbooking] Cricut, and she stumbled across the cake one. Don't know what it does? It's genius! All you do is slip in a sheet of fondant, click what you want it to cut out, and it will cut out the shape/decoration/letter,etc that you want. Granted, you have to buy the different cartridges that contain the different shapes, decorations, letters, animals.. whatever. But isn't that awesome?!

Now for the goodies. Here are a few of the probjects I've been working on the past couple of months:

These two pictures are owl cakepops. They were made for "A's" first birthday! Luckily, I had "A's" mommy's help to make them all! We made about 60-70 of the little guys. Although this was our first time for both of us to make owl cakepops, they aren't perfect, but they sure did turn out darling! The owl pops were a HUGE hit at the birthday party. And by HUGE, I mean.. ginormous! Everyone kept going back for seconds, thirds, fourths... And most importantly, the birthday girl couldn't get enough of them either! The owl pops were made with the confetti cake, white icing, and dipped in cocoa candy melts. We used sliced almonds for the wings, chocolate chips for the ears, flower-shaped sprinkles for the feet, small peanut-butter chips for the beaks, and the candy necklace candies for the eyes. Thank you, "A's" mommy, for coming over and helping me make these! I'm so glad you asked me to help you with sweet "A's" very first birthday party :)

These next few pictures were for my neighbor's welcome home party. He's in the Navy, and was in Kuwait for a while. His mom, aka my second mom, asked me to make cupcakes and cakepops... and this is what I came up with!

The cakepops were made with a yellow cake, buttercream frosting, and then dipped in vanilla flavored candy melts. I was able to make 40 cakepops, so I made 13 red, 13 white, and 13 blue.. and ate the left over one! :) I simply bought the red and white candy melts, but added blue and a hint of black dye to white to make this color blue. After the cakepop was dipped in candy melts, I then sprinkled coordinating colored sprinkles all over them. Last, but not least, I tied yellow ribbons on each stick and hot glued the Navy tag to each one in honor of our sea man :)