Ok, for now I am posting some older recipes that I've done until I've figured out this whole setup here. So hang tight and see what I've got going on!

First things first. Over the holidays I decided to play with a recipe I found on Bakerella. I made cakeballs, which is mostly easy, just time consuming and kind of a pain in the ass. They came out awful cute though!

So first, you make some kind of cake. I ended up making one chocolate cake and one yellow cake, both from box mixes. Don't worry about making it look nice, since as soon as its cool enough to touch, you'll be crumbling it right into a bowl and mixing it with a can of frosting. Actually, this is what the recipe says but I found that a little less is better. Too much frosting makes it too sweet. You basically want enough so that the cake stuff sticks together when you roll them into bowls. So yes. Add at least enough frosting to hold everything together and more if you like it sweeter.



So after you mix everything together, start shaping the cake into quarter sized balls. Put them on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper



You can do other shapes. I took the yellow cake and made cones



Then, take your sticks and put them into the balls. For the cones, I just poked small holes and didn't leave the sticks in.



Afterwards, pop everything into the freezer until it's all firmed up. I actually just put everything in the fridge since I wanted to go to bed, so things went in there to wait till the morning.

So by this point, you'll need to decide what design you want to do. I did santa hats, since I was taking them to a Christmas party (I know, I know, I'm a terrible Jew. Menorahs next year?). So that's what I'm showing! First you take either white candy melts or white chocolate and melt it. You'll need styrofoam blocks or something to stick the sticks into near by. First, take a cone and dip the wide part into the white, just a little bit, just to get a ring of white around the bottom. Put it on a stick and stick it into the styrofoam block and leave it to harden. While you're waiting, melt the red candy melts and set it aside



Once the white part has dried, dip the cone in tip first into the red candy melt, dipping just to where the white starts. Put it back in the styrofoam block and let it harden.





Ok, now you can do one of a few things. If you happen to have small white candies of some kind, you can attach them to the tip of the cone, using the white chocolate as a glue. If you don't, you can do what I did, which was sort of mush some white chocolate and the sugar together into ball things and attack them with more white chocolate. Not the most elegant of situations but it works! Next, take the sugar crystals and pour some out on a piece of wax paper. Take a cone and drizzle a little white chocolate on the white part of the cone. Roll it over the sugar till there's a good coating there.



And you're done! Excitement!