It's Christmas time! I love Christmas. Like I said before, we are moving in the next few weeks. Moving means we don't have any Christmas decorations up except our icicle lights on our apartment balcony that I made my husband put up almost a month ago because I knew it would be the only Christmas decorations we would put up this year. With my lack of Christmas decorations, I'm surprised I haven't overcompensated with a load of Christmas baking. Then again, Christmas is still weeks away.
The first Christmas treat were these Christmas tree cake pops:
In this case, melting the chocolate and dipping the pops were the easy part.
I made two different shapes: one with a cookie cutter and one that I hand formed into a tree shape.
The hard part was decorating them so they looked like a tree but didn't look like a child had decorated them. Unfortunately, the first ones looked a child decorated them. I even used the exact decorations that Bakerella used for her, except mine looked like crap.
So I tried this:
And they still looked like crap.
I didn't like the bare trees and thought they needed some sort of decoration so I spent a few minutes digging through all my baking supplies and realized I had some red candy melts. I melted the candy melts, poured them into a plastic bag, cut a tiny hole in one corner, and drizzled it over the trees. It was better but I cut the hole much too big and it was more of a gloop than a drizzle.
So, I turned the bag over to the other side, cut a smaller tiny hole in the corner, and drizzled again. So much better!
I also had been wanting to try packaging the cake pops. I got little treat sacks and tied them with a little curling ribbon and the result was pretty cute!
Overall, I am pleased. Next up on my list of Christmas treats is peanut butter fudge topped with chocolate!
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