Happy Cake Balls

I decided to try to make new treats using some colorful chocolate, so first I made some cake balls with the help of my cake pop maker.
I used a very nice recipe of Honey Cake from Happy Foods Tube. They have a very good recipe with a video. Click here.

I made some ears with fondant to attach to some heads.
After that, it was just a whole lot o mess with different color chocolate to decorate (the mess is not shown here).
The honey cake is really tasty and goes well with the white chocolate.
I still feel that I need more practice with chocolate and some of them did not survive during the making of the covering process.
But the ones that survived came out ok.
And the leftover chocolate can always turn into smaller cute molds.
Quite a work, but they make the Summer fun,

Flying Saucer Cookie Tray

It is almost Summer and the school end of the year parties are starting.
My son's Astronomy Club will end tomorrow and at his request I am sending cookies. I was too lazy to bake the cookies, so I grabbed some Chips Ahoy on sale at ShopRite.
I wrapped 2 cookies together, but they looked too plain. So I decided to make some labels on Photoshop.
But then I didn't know how to serve them, a plate or a box looked very sad. That is why looking at some astronomy images, I saw a flying saucer and that what I decide to make.

As always my budget was low, so at the Dollar store I found some trays that could do the closest job. And a clear cup to place on top.

Next I used some blue paint tape in parchment paper to make circles.
I taped the circles in the clear tray to make little windows.
I painted the inside of the tray with silver (in the inner circle), then black paint on the outside. It needed about 3 layers of paint to cover the clear parts.
After the paint was dry, the blue tape was removed to make the little windows. On the clear windows I made some drawings in paper.
They were each glued on the inside part, with the aliens facing outside.
I made this little alien with clay and a little control panel in paper.

Then glued on top of the upside down painted tray.
And finally glued the clear cup to cover.

The serving tray is ready.
And this is how aliens with their flying saucers are in my head.
Happy and peaceful.

Pokeball Cake.

For my son's Pokemon party I was really out of ideas for the cake. So my friend Leslie, who I call my other brain, showed me some pictures of a cupcake cake. That was a great idea. She helped me with the baking, which was great.
Then it was just a lot of pipping.
To make the black stripe, I used some black candy balls from Party City, because there were no black frosting or black food coloring available.
The kids were very happy with the cake.
And serving was very easy.
Mission accomplished, until the next party.