Cake ball a trois

A friend of the family asked me to make cake balls for her daughters graduation open house this weekend, sweetening the offer with the promise of cash. Baking for money? Sign me up!

Dressed in my best Betty Crocker get-up, I've spent my afternoon baking cakes. My kitchen is hotter than a bad word and I'm quite tired of mooshing icing into cake crumbs. And sadly, I'm not even halfway done!

I'm making lemon cake balls which will be dipped in white chocolate, red velvet with cream cheese icing that will be dipped in chocolate, chocolate with cherry icing to be dipped in chocolate and also Oreo balls (dipped in white chocolate).

I've got balls that are rolled out,

balls that are still in the smooshed stage 

and balls that don't even know they're going to become balls!

Lord help me! I'm all caked out. This is requiring more energy than my sick-self has exerted all week long. 

PS I'm battling day 8 of summer illness =/ Thanks for all the kind words, it has started to fade off, but still frustratingly enough graced me with a throbbing head and swollen tonsils all day today. 

Dippin' my cake balls!

I know, I know, I'm sorry... I couldn't help myself - all evening long I kept saying "I gotta dip my balls tonight" I share the same humor as a 16 year old boy, what can I say! Atleast I added "cake" into the title!

So, I've spent many a day drooling over Bakerella's treats. I'll be the first to admit that. If you haven't you should probably hurry on over there and bring your slobber rag with you! I decided it was time to try out one of her recipes. So Friday night while we were watching the little rooter-tooter

(sidenote: how precious is this photo of her with her daddy's hand)

she was snoozing away so I decided to make some Red Velvet Cake balls. I didn't have a chance to dip them until Saturday morning, and they were devoured shortly there after. I used red velvet cake mix, cream cheese icing and chocolate bark coating. Honestly, this is one of the best things I have ever made!

(poor Q iPhone photo - apologies!)

Since I'm hosting a Lia Sophia jewelry party Monday evening, I woke up this morning (and somehow lost an hour while I slept... grr damn you daylight savings - us Hoosiers are new to it, and do not enjoy it!) with a brilliant idea. I was going to make more cake balls! And as I am writing this, my chocolate bark is hardening. This time I went with lemon cake, lemon supreme icing and white chocolate. My kitchen smells of lemon yumminess. 

I haven't tried one of the lemon balls yet, but I am thinking they will make a delicious breakfast for me as I'm rushing off to work tomorrow morning! PS I'm totally excited for my party tomorrow night, have you ever bought from them? They have some seriously cute stuff! (Not to mention awesome hostess goodies like freebies and great deals!)

Apronista

Surprise, surprise, I joined something else! I know right. I couldn't help it - I came across a post in the SewMamaSew forum and HAD to join. It was so me. So, Hi- my name is Chelsea, I'm a martini-holic. I am the newest member to Shawnee's Flirty "Martini Madness" Apron Swap.



But really, I work in the liquor industry, and two of my favorite things to do are bake and sew. I can't believe I've gone this long without an apron, what was I thinking?! All those jeans I had to wash because I covered them in flour (I said I liked to bake, not that I was cut out for my own Food Network show - I can't keep the kitchen clean if my life depended on it!)

It's a totally cute idea, you get an anonymous partner and make them an apron and send them a cute lil package just in time for Valentine's day complete with an apron and a martini glass of your choice (no plain ones allowed!).

There's still time to join.... I believe registration is open til tomorrow. I'm kind of glad I caught it at the last minute, I am not a patient girl, and waiting a month after signing up before learning who my partner was would have drove me INSANE!

Red Velvet Elvis

Does three posts in one day make up for practically three weeks of no posts? ;)

I've been baking! I made my favorite cookies today....

Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Icing. I could probably eat this whole spread of them! But alas, I can't. I have to save them for a Halloween party!