Cake Pops

If you haven't yet checked out cake pops from Bakerella, you're really missing out! Essentially, you just mash up a cake, mix in some icing, form it into balls (or whatever shape you want), put it on sticks, and cover it with melted almond bark. They're super adorable, and I made some out of our leftover birthday cake! I left the candy coating white (melted it in the microwave) and just put some sprinkles on before it set.

I didn't have any lollipop sticks to put them on, so I just used some crazy straws we had in our junk drawer in the kitchen. I thought they were cute!

However, I thought these were as equally cute, and they would be way less labor intensive to make than cake pops (if you didn't have a bunch of leftover birthday cake).

They're just marshmallows, see? But still really adorable in cupcake papers on my cupcake stand. How can anything not be cute when it's on a cupcake stand?

I think these would be adorable for my daughter to serve her teddy bears at a tea party. Just melt the candy coating in the microwave, add a few drops of food coloring, dip and sprinkle!

My diet didn't let me eat these either. I don't know why I had a sudden urge to make irresistible desserts that I can't eat!!! At least I had the strength to say "NO!" (all accept for one bit of course ;-)