{"id":403,"date":"2009-03-19T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=403"},"modified":"2009-03-19T04:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T11:00:47","slug":"i-am-bakerella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"I *AM* Bakerella"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ok. So, I’m not really Bakerella<\/a>. But I assume you already knew that.<\/p>\n

She’s amazing. Her cake pops, cupcake pops, cupcake bites, and basically everything else she makes is awesome. She is incredibly talented, and I love to look at her site and pretend I could make such cool looking things. If you haven’t visited her blog, you should. I think you’ll be amazed.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I decided I wanted to try something new a different for a St. Patrick’s Day treat this year. So I braved it and tried to make Bakerella’s cupcake bites (and some cake pops)…<\/p>\n

They don’t look nearly as cool as hers. Seriously.<\/p>\n

But I did have fun trying.<\/p>\n

And I now have a whole new level of respect for her. These took A LONG TIME. Way longer than I thought. Now, I am going to guess that Bakerella has gotten into a rhythm with these things and that she’s considerably faster than me. And I’m going to assume that she doesn’t have 2 small children vying for her attention as she’s cooking. But still.<\/p>\n

I probably spent 4 or 5 hours in the kitchen working on these. Bridget helped for awhile, but then lost interest.<\/p>\n

On the bright side, I think they turned out pretty good. And they look cool. (though not as cool as hers). Cool or not, I don’t know that I’ll be making more of these any time soon – they just take too long to be massively consumed immediately after they are finished.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here are a few more pictures:<\/p>\n

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I tried to dye the yellow cake mix green. It didn’t quite work like I’d hoped. Its not really all that green.
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And the Cake Pops. I think the cupcake bites were easier.
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Oh… and for the record. Dipping chocolate works significantly better than melted chocolate chips. You can probably see that my brown is a little rougher than the other two colors.<\/p>\n

As a side thought, I bet these would be really good with an Oreo Bon-bon<\/a> filling instead of the cake. At some point I imagine I’ll try that.<\/p>\n

They are pretty fun and funky. So if you’re feeling ambitious, I recommend giving these a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok. So, I’m not really Bakerella. But I assume you already knew that. She’s amazing. Her cake pops, cupcake pops, cupcake bites, and basically everything else she makes is awesome. She is incredibly talented, and I love to look at her site and pretend I could make such cool looking things. If you haven’t visited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic","category-food","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}