I attempted the making of cake pops for Aiden’s birthday back in May. I had some leftover cake bits that I stored in the freezer. Wait–let me back up. I made a cake for Simon’s birthday that required me to cut away parts of it and arrange them in some sort of special configuration. For the life of me I can’t remember what kind of cake it was but I ended up with a ziploc bag full of cake parts that I decided I would save for later and try to make cake pops with them. The cake pops I tried to make were the ones where you crumble up the cake and mix it with frosting. Then you form balls out of the cake mixture, dip them in chocolate coating with lollipop sticks and voilá!
Unfortunately, those cake pops turned out to be the messiest, ugliest disaster I’ve ever attempted (aside from the literal train wreck of a cake that I made for Timothy–but that’s another story). The cake balls wouldn’t stay on the lollipop sticks and the chocolate coating made them so heavy that they started falling off even after trying to put them in the freezer to make them stay. Long story short: I vowed never to try cake pops again.
Enter Babycakes. Read more…
I’m kind of a bad mom when it comes to labeling my boys’ clothing, shoes, and cups. Permanent markers are constantly misplaced in the house and I never think to buy the expensive dishwasher-safe label tape for my label maker. I jumped at the opportunity to try Applied Labels because now that we go to the gym all the time, Timothy’s cups, coat, and diaper bag need to have his name on them. Read more…
In all honesty, I am not a huge fan of giving gift certificates because I find them to be impersonal. But I love getting them! It’s hard to be creative when giving gift cards because one can only disguise the card by wrapping it in endless amounts of wrapping paper or boxes within boxes. When you want to give a gift certificate quickly, though, say for a friend across the country or if you just want to give someone a little something to make them smile, I think that using eGift Social makes it simple. Read more…
I laughed out loud when I got my sample of Cottonelle Fresh Wipes in the mail on Monday. Seriously. It just so happened they arrived on the very day members of my family came down with a horrible, horrible stomach virus. Talk about needing to be fresh! Read more…
I’m late to this Breyer’s Smooth & Dreamy blog tour, but I have a good excuse: I wanted to eat every last one of the bars & sandwiches in my freezer first. Between me and Jamie, we’re almost done. We got out of the habit of eating ice cream every night, you know. Since we both spent the summer trying to get back in shape, laying off the sweets has been a top priority. Read more…
