Anyway, I think this is perfect timing to show you guys how to make Wedding Cake Pops, Grooms and Brides, ladies and gentlemen.
I have many wedding orders at the moment and this weekend, a lucky couple gets to eat these with many of their guests:

You want to make some of these?
Please read on to see the tutorial on how to make Bride and Groom Cake Pops

• Prep Time 30 minutes
• Baking Time has to be chilled in refrigerator before serving
• Difficulty Medium
• Servings
  

For making Cake Pops please visit this link.

When you have your Cake Pops ready to get decorated as brides and grooms, you need:

• uncoated basic, round Cake Pops, chilled in refrigerator
• white candy coating
• brown or black candy coating
• lollipop sticks
• Wax paper
• Toothpicks
• miniature brown or black heart sprinkles
• white round sprinkles
• tweezers
• white sanding sugar

I absolutely love these cake pops. Unfortunately it does take a while to make them, but oce they’re done, it was totally worth the time. I mean just imagine giving these away, especially to people who never even heard of cake pops, you will blow them away with this treat.

I made a couple of more instagram-like shots, I just love the effects!
Check out my flickr album MARRY ME CAKE POPS for all photos, if you like.

Alrighty, I’m off, watching this video again

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Blessings and marry on
niner

Seriously, mom loved the heart shaped strawberries…something so simple but with a lovely message!

You can really taste both, fresh lemons and the intense flavor of the limes, such a great combination!

Please read on to see more photos and to get the recipe.

• Prep Time 30 minutes
• Baking Time has to be cooled in refrigerator
• Difficulty Medium
• Servings
  

For the Lemon & Lime Mousse:

• 6 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup juice (lemons and limes)
• 3/4 cup heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

For the strawberries:

• 1 pound fresh strawberries, sliced thin
• 1/4 cup sugar
• recipe calls for 1 to 2 tablespoons orange flavored liqueur but I used a little bit of strawberry syrup (Monin)

A couple of more photos for you…

I absolutely adored this dessert, if you have never made lemon curd, try it out, it is SO good and fresh tasting. Just right for summer!!

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Blessings…niner

Oh how much I am in the mood for summer. Spring has sort of started, it is still cold most of the time but the sun is shining and I have been wanting to make this DIY project for a while!
Polka Dot Tiered Planters, I have first seen those on the net somewhere but then again found such a cute example on Positively Splendid, a creative blog by Amy. Her work is truly amazing and inspiring! So I thought let’s give it a try

I bought 3 pots (clay) and colors of my choice. I am sure I will re-paint them each year because I am already thinking about different colors
I coated the pots twice, inside and outside, let them dry and then used a circle foam to paint the polka dots on the pots. If you mess up, just paint it over again, let it dry for a little bit and try again. It is so much fun too – I am sure you all would like this project.

Read on to read instructions how to do it.

When my pots were all dry, I filled them with flower soil and stacked the pots (see photos). Start now on the top tier to fill the pot with flowers of your choice. Do the same with the second and third tier and voilá, you are done and look how cute it is. I haven’t seen that around at all – thanks Amy!

See here a couple of steps (not all, sorry):

I hope you guys like it and let me know if you want to try it out too – I would love to see your creations!!
And make sure to stop by here: Positively Splendid.

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Blessings…niner

Since Wedding Season is coming up, I have been trying out a couple of elegant and classy Cake Pops for my clients.
These upcoming BRIDE and GROOM cake pops aren’t new invented from me – but I think these are THE perfect Cake Pops for a wedding. It is just so awesome how they come together and all of a sudden they look just so “real” and you can definitely tell what these are for. hese cute little bow ties made out of two heart shaped sprinkles…so easy but looks so great at the same time.

I thought I’d share those with you in case you do not know these yet.
Absolutely adorable…I hope someone can make these for me when my wedding day comes in a couple of years

Let me introuce you to the groom:

Please read on to see more photos including the bride

And a whole crew of wedding couples

I used my typical OREO Creamcheese Filling – this is what most people want.

I wish you all a great weekend!!!

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Blessings…niner

So in January I sit on my desk at work, I suddenly receive a phonecall from a local TV show over here in Germany! It is broadcasted in northern Germany, so I was thrilled, obviously! They have been looking for someone from Hannover who makes Cake Pops and through a very well known search engine, they found me and contacted me. I was overwhelmed…ME ON TV? Ohmygoodness…

The week before the shoot I had so many things to do – my interview was all about Cake Pops for Valentine’s Day and how that is different from buying sweets from the supermarket. So I had to prepare lots of Cake Pops, most of them Valentine’s Day themed, but also various ones for any kind of occasion: Easter, Christmas etc. I crafted a Cake Pop Tower as well to make it look really great for TV
I chose to bake these awesome Cupcakes as well, with cute cupcake toppers I designed. I posted them in my previous blogpost if you want to have a look.

All week I have been preparing for the TV shoot which was Friday before Valentine’s Day. We shot for about 5 hours straight, and the outcome was a cute report that was about 3 minutes long. When you actually DO stuff like that, you seriously acknowledge the work of so many bloggers all around the world who make video tutorials. It takes up so much time to come up with something that is 3-5 mins long. I definitely appreciate all the people who put so much effort in these videos. I would love to make some videos in the future, shooting was fun, but I was nervous first and foremost

If I had to do it again I would be definitely more relaxed. It was a great experience, and the tv crew was just incredible! Super nice and helpful throughout the whole day.
It was funny because they sort of had to wait a couple hours until they could try some of my sweets – they were literally dying – they haven’t had Cake Pops before…and luckily loved them when they were finally allowed to try some, after the shoot was over.

me and the wonderful tv crew

We shot most of it in my kitchen. I showed them how to make Oreo filled Cake Pops but also prepared some original Cake Pops, vanilla flavored and some were tinted with red food coloring – that totally fit the theme of Valentine’s Day.
I was referring to wonderful Angie Dudley, better known as Bakerella (the host of the show also took my “Cake Pops” book in the beginning to introduce the report) who is the only reason why these TV people even called me.

Without Bakerella, there wouldn’t be no Cake Pops, and I wouldn’t have a business selling Cake Pops all over Germany. Unfortunately they did not show the part where I mention her – I talked so much during the interview but only little of it was broadcasted. But this blogpost is my dedication to Bakerella. Everyone who runs a business with Cake Pops should be so greatful that she had the idea to make these a couple of years back. Thanks, Angie! This one is for you:

Read on to see the video and more photos..

After the shoot at my place was over, the TV crew and I went downtown Hannover to ask some folks what they thought of the idea to give Cake Pops to their loved ones on Valentine’s Day (instead of typical gifts such as roses or sweets from the supermarket).

One woman (you can see in the video) was so surprised when she bite into the Cake Pop and saw the red cake inside…it was so cool to see people’s reactions – all of them were positive, all of them loved my Cake Pops. It truly made me feel like: Having a Cake Pop shop around here, wouldn’t be such a bad idea

I now want to share some of the photos we have taken throughout the day. And of course of my Valentine’s Day themed Cake Pops and Cupcakes (I forgot to mention I also made cake bites).

Watch the video underneath. Unfortunately it is in German and I am not allowed to reproduce the video (adding subtitles etc.). But I hope you get the idea of it if you don’t speak German.

As you can see I prepared all kinds of Cake Pops:
Snowmen, Easter Eggs, Hearts, Drippy ones, Stars, Cupcake Pops…

And some Cuppies in between

It has been a pleasure to be part of this tv report. I hope you guys enjoyed my blogpost and I hope you all had, a little belated due to the storm of people contacting me, a happy Valentine’s Day.

That’s a graphic I made, I think the quote fits perfectly

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Blessings…niner

I like Valentine’s Day, all these awesome decorations, thousands of wonderful bloggers with their fabolous talents showing the sweetest desserts – it’s wonderful!
But to me it’s also very important to care for my loved ones anytime during the year – that’s what makes it special.

I have been busy baking some cute Valentine’s Day Cupcakes.

Enjoy the photos…and the recipe

• Prep Time 10 minutes
• Baking Time 12-15 minutes
• Difficulty Easy
• Servings
  

For the Vanilla Cupcakes:

• 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vinegar
• optional: little heart sprinkles for decorating
• optional: red food coloring to color cupcakes
• 1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees / 180 G Celsius and prepare your cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
• 2. Pour together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside.
• 3. Add 1/2 teaspoon vinegar to the milk and set aside for about 3-5 minutes.
• 4. In another bowl, add the 2 eggs and mix with handmixer. Now pour in the sugar and continue to mix for a minute.
• 5. Now add vanilla extract and vegetable oil and mix.
• 6. On low speed, add half of flour mixture, beat, then add half of milk mixture. Repeat until everything is combined and well mixed. Scrape down sides of the bowl too.
• 7. Now pour the rather thin batter into your cupcake pan and fill up the cupcake liners 2/3 full.
• 7. Bake in your preheated oven for about 12-15 minutes, use a toothpick, stick in the center of the cupcake, if it comes out clean, the cupcakes are done.
• 8. Let cupcakes cool for a couple of minutes before you remove them from the pan. Let cool completely on a plate or wire rack.
• 9. When completely cooled, you can start frosting and decorating them. Here is my one of my favourite frosting recipes. Don’t forget to color your frosting red – it makes such a difference, perfect for Valentine’s Day or any other day where you want to surprise an important person in your life.





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Enjoy your Valentine’s Day – Much love from my side of the world
Blessings…niner




]]> http://www.wechooseorganic.com/2012/02/14/happy-valentines-day-everyone/feed/ 10 http://www.wechooseorganic.com/2012/02/14/happy-valentines-day-everyone/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wechooseorganic/~3/lyoZCKyrVS4/ http://www.wechooseorganic.com/2012/01/11/candy-bar-cupcakes-and-cake-pops-for-weddingbridal-fair/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:59:04 +0000 niner http://www.wechooseorganic.com/?p=1958 Hi there,
in my last blogpost about the wedding fondant rose cupcakes I told you about the wedding/bridal fair which took place last Saturday which is called “Hochzeitstage” (translation: Wedding Days).
In today’s post I will show you a bunch of pictures of the Candy Bar which contained quite a few awesome sweets.
My job was to design food tents and a backdrop garland, and of course to bake some sweet treats

I decided to go with Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes with yummy, delicious colored creamcheese frosting on top. Additional to that I made fondant roses too for the romantic look that’s perfect for a wedding.

Owner of wedding/souvenir and gift article shop “wonderland4u” set up various containers with candy, lots of candy!
But since Cake Pops and Cupcakes are still sort of new out here, there had to be something outstanding for the Candy Bar as well.

Take a look

Candy Bar Garland


Cake Pops (white candy melts, pink sanding sugar with pink hearts on top)




To see all the treats, recipes etc, click button for more…




Heart Cake Pops


Cupcakes








Cake Bites and Heart Cake Bites


Cake Pops in pink






And other candy, for example coco balls and much more.




Me and Stephanie K., owner of Wonderland4U.com based in Hannover, Germany




I hope you liked our Candy Bar setting. These treats are also perfect for the upcoming Valentines Day in February.

If you guys want to try them out, here are some recipes from my site:

- Heart Cake Pops
- Golden Vanilla Cupcakes
- Chocolate Cupcakes
- Fondant Roses
- Basic Cake Pops and Cake Bites

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Have a good week,
Blessings…niner




]]> http://www.wechooseorganic.com/2012/01/11/candy-bar-cupcakes-and-cake-pops-for-weddingbridal-fair/feed/ 4 http://www.wechooseorganic.com/2012/01/11/candy-bar-cupcakes-and-cake-pops-for-weddingbridal-fair/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wechooseorganic/~3/g6aQ6I0c-yM/ http://www.wechooseorganic.com/2012/01/09/how-to-make-fondant-roses-for-cupcakes-weddingbridal-cupcakes/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:44:39 +0000 niner http://www.wechooseorganic.com/?p=1929 Happy New Year everybody!!
I hope everybody had a peaceful and absolutely wonderful celebration of Jesus’ birth, and of course a great time with family and friends during New Year’s Eve.
I know it has been a good minute since my last blogpost but I have moved in December and things were just hectic, hectic, hectic, no time for blogging much but now I am back in full effect

Last week I made a Cake Pop and Cupcake order for a wedding/bridal fair, Germany’s biggest, which takes place in Hannover and that, coincidently happens to be where I live.
The souvenir and gift article shop “wonderland4u” contacted me because they wanted to have a Candy Bar at their stand at the fair. So they needed Cupcakes and Cake Pops, designed food tents and a backdrop garland.

For the Cake Pops I decided to make white and pink ones, red heart shaped Cake Pops to fit the wedding theme perfectly. Same for the Cupcakes: I chose Vanilla and Chocolate Cupcakes with white and pink creamcheese frosting.
But to make it all look more elegant, I made fondant roses and leaves – giving it all a romantic touch, you know

I did not take brilliant how-to photos (sorry about that) but I just want to show you guys that fondant roses aren’t too hard to do.



Please read on to see more photos and instructions.
Working with fondant is a lot of fun, I tell you!


• Prep Time 5 minutes
• Time depends on how many roses
• Difficulty Medium

Before you start make sure you have the Cupcakes frosted, and get the following equipment ready to use:

• Fondant (white fondant so you can color it yourself or buy colored fondant in red and green)
• Gel food coloring of choice ( Iusually use Wilton)
• A plastic mat
• icing/powdered sugar (for the mat so the fondant won’t stick)
• A rolling pin
• Rose Leaf Cutter/Plunger
• Toothpicks
• I used a mini peanut butter mold for the leafs to dry
• another mat for the roses to dry
• plastic foiling pocket

 

• Place a few drops of gel food colouring or use a toothpick and take out a single amount of gel paste on your fondant and work it in. Knead really well until all the colouring is distributed evenly. It does take a while so be patient
  Keep adding coloring until you have your desired color.
• You want each piece to have the size of a marble or smaller
• Break off or cut off 4 or 5 small pieces of fondant and roll them into tiny balls. These will be the petals of the rose. Place them into the foiling pocket.
• Break off 1 more small piece, roll it into a longer shape, just twice the length, so it looks a little like a cone shape
• Place all the little pieces between the plastic foiling pocket.



• Now use your thumb and smooth each of these shapes, until they’re quite thin. The top should be a littler thinner than the bottom though.



• Now, flatten the cone shape. It does not have to be perfectly. I do it pretty quick, especially when you have to make tons of fondant roses



• Now flatten all the balls evenly.





Now how to form your rose shape:

• The flattened cone shape will be the center of our rose, so gently roll it up, very small, then let it get wider. Take a petal and put it over the center you just rolled up.
• We will line up all of the thicker edges (of the petals) all at the bottoms and the thinner edges all towards the top.
• The second petal goes half way inside the first one, roll it around. The third one goes half way the second one, and roll it around again.
• Until you have them all evenly spaced around. Now shape the petals, pull them back a little bit, giving them little pinches here and there on the edges to make them look more natural.
• The bottom you can just cut off and there you have it. Place it on a board to let it dry.

 

As you can see here, from right to left: I started quite big. With each new rose I made the balls smaller and smaller, so you can create whatever size you like or need for cupcakes or cakes decorations.







For the leaves I colored my white fondant green, rolled it out with a rolling pin, very thin, but as you can see: they could have been way thinner


I used too much of icing sugar as you can see. It would be better if you try not to have icing sugar all over the place, especially not on top of the leafs, so try to use tweezers, not your icing sugary hands to lift them up, if possible
I cut out the leaves with a Rose Leaf Cutter/Plunger and then placed each leaf into a peanut butter cup mold. This way they are a little curvier in the end.



There are numerous ways to let the leaves dry. You can also use Foam Drying Trays or Foam Pads. Will definitely get one of these, it just works more precise.

Note:
- Always use a clean surface. Any tiny little speck of dirt will change the color of the fondant.
- Fondant dries very quickly. Always cover it when you are not using it. (with plastic wrap)
- Dust your surface with powdered sugar while working to keep the fondant from sticking, it can dry the paste though when you use too much.

And here are some photos on how you can place the roses and leaves onto your cupcakes. It’s better to wait until the fondant roses and leaves are dry, then stick them into the frosted cupcakes.







Marian, thanks so much for the piping tip!! I LOVE IT!






and my favourite: a tiny cupcake with a tiny rose



In my next blogpost I will show you the photos of the wedding fair: the Cupcakes, Cake Pops, garland and food tents designs etc. So stop by again, the Candy Bar looked really, really cute.

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Have a good week,
Blessings…niner




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Here I go again with a little DIY post. This time I have two different easy but so lovely things to show you!
How to make a bunting for a cake, same for the backdrop happy birthday garland and glittered candle jars the easy way.

These jars would be great for christmas, I would take red or green glitter instead of violet but that’s all a matter of taste
Read on.



Let’s start with CAKE BUNTING:

• Design Time depends: when you have free printables, no design time at all
• Prep Time 30min – 1 hour (cutting out)
• Difficulty Easy

These are the supplies you need:

• embroidery thread
• cardstock
• glue
• tall lollipop sticks
• pair of scissors
• This is bascially how you will do it:
• Start by printing the out the design you made, chose or got free from the web.
• Now cut your bunting flags out and fold them like in the photo underneath.





• Then I glued just the bottom parts of the flags, left room on the top though, for the embroidery thread to thread through the flags.
• Now you just need a cake, and the two tall lollipop sticks. Stick them in the cake and tie around the embroidery thread around them.



• This is easy and beautiful at the same time, have a look here.



Download the file here or by clicking on the image


By the way, I used the same design for the wall’s birthday-banner. Same thing, just a little bigger!


Click on the picture below to download the zip file that includes all HAPPY BIRTHDAY letters for the backdrop garland.





Let’s move on with the glittered candle jars:

• Prep Time 5 minutes
• Time to make these 20 minutes or less
• Difficulty Easy

These are the supplies you need for the glittered candle jars:

• any type of jars you choose
• glitter in various colors
• glue
• tape
• underlayment paper to prevent too much mess
• Spread out the underlayment paper on your table
• You can either choose the “tape” version or the “glue” version. I started with the tape version but did not like it as much. Choose this if you want straight lines of glitter on your candle jar.



• So now I chose the glue and that was just so easy. Put the glue anywhere on the candle jar where you want glitter to be.



• Then sprinkle glitter on the glued spots, use your fingers too to spread it more, it worked very well.



And this is how it will look like in the end: Purple and gold glitter. I used these jars for the birthday party we through for our friend Kris, check out my blogpost about it here.


These two colors combined are so sweet. Gives a truly warm and festive atmosphere. Plus you do not need to go to the store, you only need your favourite colors of glitter and glue and get it started.


It is really simple and I think it’s a great treat for christmas. People will love them, I bet!
Feel free to share the printables and have fun with it

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Have a good week,
Blessings…niner




]]> http://www.wechooseorganic.com/2011/11/29/diy-cake-bunting-and-glittered-candle-jars/feed/ 2 http://www.wechooseorganic.com/2011/11/29/diy-cake-bunting-and-glittered-candle-jars/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wechooseorganic/~3/KjQa5s3h-Oc/ http://www.wechooseorganic.com/2011/11/10/cute-and-lovely-christmas-snowman-cake-pops-perfect-for-the-holidays/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:06:17 +0000 niner http://www.wechooseorganic.com/?p=1695 Just like with any other holiday: It’s coming so fast! Before you know it you have so much stuff on your to-do list that you get very stressed-out and this, at least for me, is no fun at all.
So I thought to post my Christmas Snowman Cake Pops now instead of in December.

When I make my baking plans for holidays, I usually look stuff up 1 or 2 months early and start planning what to bake, what to cook, how to decorate my place etc.
And when I recently thought of making Christmas Cake Pops, I knew it had to be Snowmen
I love these little fellas, because these Snowmen aren’t the regular kind. I changed them up a little bit comparing to the usual kind.
They even fit perfectly to Valentines Day (indeed there is snow often in February) because of the little hearts I used as bottons.



Please read on to see more photos and to get the recipe.


• Prep Time 20 minutes
• Baking Time 10 minutes in refrigerator
• Difficulty Easy
• Servings
  

For the Christmas Snowman Cake Pops:

• 1 package OREO cookies or for Europeans: 3 and a half packages a 176g
• 1 8oz. package cream cheese (I use 176g packages (6.2 ounces)
• white Candy Melts – I use Merckens and Wilton Candy Melts
• white sanding sugar
• orange sprinkles for the noses
• heart-shaped sprinkles, choose any color you like
• Americolor Edible Food Pen
• Edible glue
• little brush for edible glue
• tweezers (to place hearts and nose precisely)
• Lollipop Sticks

Additional Items you may want to get, makes a nice gift:

• Lollipop plastic covers, to give away
• ribbon for tying, to give away

 

• Prepare yourself before you actually start. Get everything out on the counter you need, so you do not stress yourself in the middle of the decorating process
• 1. Now, make the NO BAKE Snowman Cake Pops: Grind your Oreo cookies to fine crumbs in a food processor
• 2. Put the crumbmix into a boal and hand mix with cream cheese. I use gloves though, because it gets messy Especially when you have longer nails, it takes a while to be “oreo/creamcheese-free” again. So just use gloves, or when you have kids, I am sure they would love to help you with this step
• 3. Keep in mind that the dough should have the consistency of play-dough.
• 4. Roll the dough into balls and form them into the typical Snowman shape, then refrigerate them for at least 10 minutes to firm up.
• 5. Now melt your candy wafers.
• 6. Dip a little bit of the lollipop stick in the melted candy, then stick the lollipop stick in the Cake Pop (half way) and dip the Cake Pop in the melted candy wafers.
• 7. Now you can add the hearts as buttons, but I actually waited until everything was set and dry.
• 8. Put the cake pops in a styrofoam block to dry completely.
• 9. Get it started. Paint the eyes and mouth as dots on the snowman cake pops.
• 10. Now go get your edible glue to work: Dip your brush in the glue and put it on the cake pop, where you want the nose and hearts to be placed.
• 11. Then carefully (with help of tweezers) add the hearts one by one and nose-sprinkle to make the snowman-face complete And you’re done.

 

It is really simple and I think it’s a great treat for christmas. People will love them, I bet!









Bakerella inspired me. I am sure she inspires everyone who makes Cake Pops.
I mean: she made them first, and she is absolutely amazing with her creativity. If you have not heard about her, please pay her website a visit!







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Have a good week, I’ll grab me a slice of cake for breakfast now…mhmmmm…
Blessings…niner




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