I have been blessed with the start of my business: cody cakes and my very first order from a client that needed cake pops for a trade show. They asked that I use a recipe they provided using a product that they had just introduced and asked for 450 cake pops! I had TWO WEEKS to prepare!! WHOA was this exciting stuff!!
Needless to say I'm stubborn, a control freak and perfectionist- which somehow didn't work in my favor for this project. I wanted each hand-rolled cake pop to be uniform, packed to a certain pressure of my hand, weighing all the same weight (0.9 oz), as round as round could be; quite simply, as perfect as a hand-rolled cake pop would be. I have learned that my perfectionist and control attributes could quite possibly be my greatest weakness. However, I was 110% pleased with the outcome of my perfectly rolled cake pops- but it took me MUCH longer than I thought...Maybe I should have... YES, I should have accepted the help that was offered!! *note to self, …
Needless to say I'm stubborn, a control freak and perfectionist- which somehow didn't work in my favor for this project. I wanted each hand-rolled cake pop to be uniform, packed to a certain pressure of my hand, weighing all the same weight (0.9 oz), as round as round could be; quite simply, as perfect as a hand-rolled cake pop would be. I have learned that my perfectionist and control attributes could quite possibly be my greatest weakness. However, I was 110% pleased with the outcome of my perfectly rolled cake pops- but it took me MUCH longer than I thought...Maybe I should have... YES, I should have accepted the help that was offered!! *note to self, …