Cake Pops from Queen’s Confections

Cake pops, they are everywhere. Everyone is making them. You love them. These little balls that are a mix of cake and candy. Seemingly like the perfect food that are just irresistible. Every party that I have been too this year, there they were, cake balls. Sometimes on sticks, some times not. I love these little balls of heaven.

When a friend of mine started a business and started to post pictures of her treats, my mouth started to water. Then she said vegan, and I was drooling, then gluten free and there was puddle. As if that was not good enough she became my favorite person in the world when she said that she would send me a sample! How did I get so lucky?

There was then a transformation in me. I became like a dog. I waited by the door everyday for the mail to arrive. Getting excited to see the lady with a blue uniform come up on my porch. They came in the mail on Friday. I almost hugged the mail lady!

I opened my package and there were the most beautiful cake pops that I have ever seen. Individually wrapped and packed so carefully that they made the journey and to my door step in perfect condition.

This was the first one that I tried. I took a bite into it and my eyes rolled. Oh My God! These were just perfection on a stick.

These are a Lemon Lime cake pop! Can you just imagine? A grown up flavor. It is a wonderful combination of flavor and texture. Not to sweet. I have never had a cake pop like this. I am telling you, if there had more, my family would not have found me for days, because I would be hording them under the stairs. But I did share with my family. My son, who loves anything that is lemon, wanted me to order a dozen. If he hadn’t already talked to the big man in red, I think these would have made his list!

My daughter, the child whose second word was chocolate (first was shoes), what did she think? She gave them a thumbs up! She was so happy that there was a treat that she could share with my father’s wife who is on a very restricted diet. “Mommy we GOT to get her these for Christmas!!” But then she noticed in the box, there were chocolate ones as well.

Is your mouth watering? It should be! There is white cake inside flavored with orange oil. The coating, dark chocolate! Orange and dark chocolate, I took one bite and my knees when weak. These are not your average birthday party cake pop!

I could go on and on, but there is one left that is just calling my name! If you are looking for gorgeous gourmet candies that will make your knee’s go weak, then head over to Queen’s Confections. You will be so glad you did!

June 4th

BWAHHHHHH! ( best attempt at an evil laugh) The vegan cupcakes were a huge hit. No one knew that they were anything different then plain old cupcakes. So there ( I am sticking out my tounge and blowing raspberries) to everyone who ever said that vegan cooking and baking is gross. Also the “chocolate cupcakes” were in fact not chocolate, they were carob! More evil laughing!!!

In general they day was awesome. The kids had some friends over, and they are the best kids I know, so it was fun. I had picked up some wooded pencil boxes and some acrylic paint, and we did them up. The little girl says to me that she loves coming to our house because I always have something fun for them to do. That makes me feel good, and a little less nuts. I swear other people think I am crazy, but it is cool when kids like me.

After they left the kids took a nice long nap. Someone forgot to tell Gryffan that you sleep in when there is no school. He was up at 5:30! OUCH! I need to get him a clock for in his room. I had made him black out curtains, but the down side is that it is always dark in his room so he has no sense of time. Tomorrow he will have my stop watch and he has very strong instructions NOT to get out of bed before 8. I have been waitting 9 months for this, I want to sleep till 9 gosh darn it.

Lexy had dance today and they learned a new routine. They are going to be dancing at this thing in the park, called picnic in the park. Kind of self explanitory. I got to peak in and watch her dance to FootLoose. She is tons of fun to watch, she can really shake it.

Then Gryffan had a make up game, which at the end of was the end of season party because the coach will not be there on Saturday. The season really went fast. Gryffan played goalie the first quarter, after very explicit instructions not to play goalie from me. But he stopped the ball both times it came near him. So it wasn’t to bad. Second quarter he was up front and he did awesome. People who have watched him play all season would think that I am lying, but he actually ran after the ball! He moved and helped out his team mate, and he took a shot on goal that hit off the posts. It was fun to watch. Third quarter he was out, and fourth quarter, nothing came near him. I think it was a really good season.

Gryffan checking out his trophy from this season

Tim is at his motorcycle saftey class tonight. Hopefully he will pass wonderfully and we will be able to go for a ride. It has been forever since I was on the back of a bike.

 

Running tally-

Gryffan – tv- 45 minutes to watch Mythbusters – 30 minutes of Diji- Finished one book and is half way done with the next        TOTAL 45minutes tv/1 hr diji

Lexy – tv – 45 minutes to watch Mythbusters  TOTAL 3hrs 15minutes

Constance – diet/yes – exercise/no

June 3rd

As promised cupcake pictures. I really like how it came out, as a learning experience. I already have tons of ideas on how to make them better for next time. lol

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Close up of the goalie, Gryffan's favorite position

Gryffan helped with the placement of the white lines, he wanted to make sure I had them accurate. lol

Today was his last day of school. He had a great report card, again. But I think he was a little bit upset that school was over. He seemed a little down in the dumps, at least until karate. Then he really perked up.

Gryffan- No tv- 30 minutes on his digi

Lexy – 1hour and 30 minutes of tv time (daddy let her watch Peter Pan while I was with Gryff at karate.)

Constance – Diet/ yes – exercise/ no

June 2nd

my take on the soccer portrait.

Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. I went out for a run this morning. I had taken last week off due to the crappy rainy weather we were having. Today I paid for it though. I was up to 6 laps of running, which is 1.5 miles, before I needed to walk a bit. Today the most I made was 4 laps. Ouch! I would like to get up early in the morning and run first thing. I think it will be cooler and calmer and the building block of a great day. There is just one thing that stands in my way. I hate mornings. lol

Lexy and I made the icing for cupcakes that I am making for the soccer party on Thursday. Unfortunately I did not have enough green food coloring, so they were put on hold. I am going to make the cupcakes tomorrow. Tim thinks that I need 40, I think 24 would be enough. I mean I have never had a piece of cake at the end of season parties. Hopefully they will turn out in real life like I think they will turn out. Fingers crossed that tomorrows post will have pictures of some kick butt cupcakes.

Also day 2 of no tv for Gryffan, we have been to busy really to watch anything once school is over anyway. But he played in the sandbox after school, and read a few chapters of his new book. He is in love with the Magic Treehouse books. He also had a free day at school, and I know that he played in some running around capacity. He told me all about their game of Super Villains.

The only time that the tv was on when it was just Lexy was when Tim and I watched WWE Raw. ( slightly hides face in embarrassment, but I can not help it, Randy Orton is HOT!!) And really she does not pay any attention to that. She thinks that Santino Morrella is funny, but that is it. I let her play her leapster for about a half hour today, but that isn’t so bad, because it is an educational toy.

So our running tally is :

Gryffan- 0

Lexy – 1 hour approximately

Constance – Work out- yes/ diet – yes

April 7th

Holy Cow Snow! What the heck is going on? 60 degrees one day, snow the next? What a shock!

Lexy had dance today, and wanted to make cupcakes for her class. She is just so sweet. So the cupcakes of day were yellow cupcakes with light purple icing flavored as cotton candy. They were a big hit with the class.

I have been logging my food and exercise into sparkpeople. I found the recipe calculator on there which is really neat and a great help when you make a lot of your own food. Down side is that I now know the nutritional content of my cupcakes. Which has made me not want to eat them. Almost 400 calories a piece.

Pickle on a stick.