life since the baby has come...

I know this blog is supposed to be about my baking, but I just had to share a little about whats been going on recently. As you all know I was very pregnant in the last posts, our baby boy finally made his arrival april 26th. I had to be induced because he was so stubborn, I walked around dilated to a 2 and 80% effaced for a month, waiting for him to come!! The doctor, my family, friends, everyone thought he was going to come way early, but he did not. Our beautiful baby boy was born at 3:42pm on April 26th, he weighed 8lbs 2oz and was 22in long. (my dr was glad she didn't make me wait longer to be induced, he was a big boy already.)

My world has changed so much since the arrival of our sweet son Jaxon, I am sleep deprived, always doing for Jaxon, I forget to eat, our house is always a mess, I haven't stopped doing laundry since I came home from the hospital and I was an emotional wreck for the first couple of days, BUT I wouldn't change it for the world :)

I LOVED being pregnant and I LOVED giving birth. THE COOLEST EXPERIENCE in my life thus far. Being a mommy is challanging and very hard at times, but so rewarding. I miss being pregnant already and Jaxon has only been out of my tummy for three weeks lol... I also can't wait to give birth to another child :) I know Im freaking crazy...

Jaxon is definently NOT an easy baby :) this child is stubborn as stubborn gets, fussy as fussy gets, but so sweet and so worth it!! God gave Dane and I a challenge when Jaxon was born, but we have risen to the occasion and it has blessed us both!! Like many people have said to us, this whole experience has shown how much Dane and I love eachother and how strong our relationship is. Jaxon has Major tummy issue(things are getting MUCH MUCH better now though) but the first few days he would cry and cry and scream pretty much all night, but Dane and I have yet to fight, bicker or rip eachothers heads off. We have come together as a team and worked SO well together to take care of Jaxon.

I do want to brag for two seconds :)
I have the best Fiance in the world. From what I hear, most husbands/boyfriends/fiances don't help out too much when it comes to having the baby home. But Dane will stay up all night with me if I let him, wakes up at every feeding to make sure i don't need anything, lets me pass out while Jaxon is throwing a major tantrum and just deals with it, changes diapers, loves to feed him, has washed so many bottles, dishes and made so many dinners for me. I am so blessed and so thankful!!

Im getting back into baking again since im feeling much better, so more post soon with some sweet treats!!!

Baby girl feet :)

My sister in law's sister is also preggers and she is only a week ahead of me. (CRAZY HOW EVERYONE IS DUE AROUND APRIL RIGHT NOW) it must have been in the water!! and still EVERYONE is getting pregnant right now I MEAN EVERYONE!!! so if your not into gaining 25+ pounds, stretch marks, cravings, morning sickness heartburn and the back ache oh and can't forget the beloved pregnant waddle:) Stay away from the water hahah ;)
No im just teasing being pregnant is probably the best thing I have experienced in my life thus far. INCREDIBLE experience. I always tell my fiance that i wish he could be pregnant too so he got to feel fetal movement and all that fun stuff.
Well anyway back to the point!! My sister in law's sister had her shower the other weekend, (she is having a baby girl)!! So i made her some pops for the shower. They turned out so precious I loved them!!

See aren't they super duper adorable:)
Well Easter is making its way towards us, I will be taking orders for any easter treats :) Super fun baskets of easter egg cake pops are a fun thing for kids :) Email me to place orders: kellsey.ball.08@gmail.com!!!

Baby Shower PoPs

I recently had my baby shower and being the control freak I am I had to make my own cake pops and cupcakes for the Shower :)

They are so cute with the tiny baby feet!!
Doing more for another shower this weekend. Except for a girl so that will be fun to get some pink in my life. Everything has been blue for a while, I guess that comes along with having a baby boy right??
I hope everyone has a wonderful st pattys day:)

Behind The Times

Life is nuts
No life is crazy absolutely crazy right now. Preparing for a baby, doctor appointments, baking, work, being tired and crabby. All of this is so time consuming ;)

I know I'm super late on this but I hope everyone had a fabulous Valentines day! I know I did! I did so many cute orders for Valentines day(which I loved every second of) I even got a nice email from one of the girls who received a cake pop bouquet from her fiance saying that she loved it and it was so delicious. That just warms my heart!!
I love it!!
Here are some of the cute orders I put out the door for people!

Some Vday pops!

Fun Vday Pop Bouquet

And a cookie and pop order :)

Now comes St. Patrick's Day! I just love all the little holidays coming up in a row.

and 8 more weeks and my precious baby boy will be here.
So many things to do still and so little time!!

Remember green centered cake pops are the perfect treat for your little ones on st pattys day!! And great to leave a bunch of them at the end of a fun leprechaun hunt around the house ;) Email me to order kellsey.ball.08@gmail.com
Remember to like my Petite PoPs page on face book too!!

Valentines Day is Coming!

I know I know its only January 11th, but I get super excited for Valentines day. . .
all the beautiful pink and red colors floating about in the stores and the yummy treats and flowers that go hand and hand with Valentines day get me all smiley:)

Like many people including myself, we don't know what to get our special someone's for this holiday. Its not like Christmas where you can justify spending a couple of hundred dollars on a person. Most of us are looking for a special sweet treat to surprise our loved ones with! What better gift than a bouquet of Valentines day cake pops or a package of decadent cupcakes!!

I'm running a small special with the code: Valentines12, when ordering mention this code and you will receive 10% off any orders of $25 or more! Orders may be placed via email at kellsey.ball.08@gmail.com!

Here are some hearty valentines cake pops I did a while back!

my cupcake creation. . .

So I'm sure many people have seen the popular show Cake Boss!!
Since my fiance and I don't believe in paying an ungodly amount of $$$$ for cable, especially when every time you turn the tv on there is NOTHING on to watch anyways, we have been watching cake boss on netflix!
Being a baker I love the show, I love his creations and the drama of the show. My fiance on the other hand hates that they push the dramaticness in the show and hates that his big huge italian family is SOOOO loud and obnoxious. He also hates that they use rice crispy treats to build some of the cakes because in his eyes its not a real cake if you aren't using all elements of cake!! Its acutally hard to watch the show with him because of all his bratty comments :) But I still love him, he just doesn't appreciate the true art of dramatic television hehe!!
Well in a few of the past episodes they have made cakes filled with cannoli filling and have made cannolis for certain special occasions. Well I have never had a cannoli in my life, but boy did they look delcious. Every episode that has this creamy cannoli goodness filling cakes makes my pregnant body drool!
So tonight while I was sitting there itching to bake something and trying to come up with something different that I haven't seen before, I thought YESS thats it cannoli cupcakes!!
So here they are I started with a white chocolate cupcake, filled it with this cannoli goodness and topped it off with a creamy whippy chocolate frosting!

Yum I love the cannoli filling. its not too sweet and its light and creamy!!

Love to hear your feedback and comments!!
Tata for now, until my next baking experience:)

The New Year

2012 huh. Crazy right?
I am excited to see what the New Year will bring
I will be bringing my first baby into the world,
I have many goals set that I am going to acheive
& I'm sure the year will bring along many good and bad suprises!!

As you know I am having a baby boy:)
My wonderful Fiance suprised me today,
I have been dreading painting the baby room,
so today we got our old clothes on to paint
and my fiance opened the door and it was all done!!
I was so HAPPY!!! It looks perfect, we still have to add a few
final touches and we have a couple of really cute jungle vinyls
to decorate the walls but here it is.

I haven't had much time for baking the last few days but hopefully soon, and when it happens ill be sure to post some yummy pictures!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years!

Perfect Holiday breakfast

So pinterest has taken over my life. . . Its a love hate relationship, I love the ideas on there, but hate that looking through all the pages takes up my WHOLE day ;)
So I saw an idea for cinnamon roll cupcakes and decided to create my own recipe for it and can I say they turned out delicious! I Love sweet things in the morning so I think that this would make the perfect holiday morning treat.
It may not have all the nutritious values we need but hey its yummy right?
Here are my results:

Fresh Outta the oven, and I must say the buttery cinnamon smell was amazinggggg

all frosted up with cream cheese frosting!! Ohh the goodness :)

So tomorrow I go in for my 18 wk baby check up then two weeks from that we get to find out the gender :)))) YAY
So i will be doing a fun baking project for that to announce to everyone what we are having, so be on the look out!!
I think we are having a baby boy, due to the fact that I'm as big as another little lady I work with, who is 7 months along and having a baby girl.

The beginning of the Holiday Season Has Begun. . .

Christmas music on the radio, walking into the stores and smelling cinnamon and pine cones and seeing all the beautiful happy Christmas decorations. . . This is my FAVORITE time of the year. My tummy tickles around all the excitement and hustle and bustle of the season! I hope everyone is enjoying this as much as I am.
I thought that I would share with you what I have been up to the past few weeks since I haven't talked to you in so long! I had my first big cupcake order for a breaking dawn party!! I had so much fun being in the kitchen day and night baking cupcakes and decorating them. Here are my end results:

310 Cupcakes all finished.

vanilla cupcakes with black sparklies!

Chocolate cupcakes with red swirls...

red velvet cupcakes

I was proud of my first order :) and it made it all worth it when I received compliments via text and facebook on them!!

Have a wonderful day full of lots of holiday cheer!

My Life as of lately and Halloween Special

It has been awhile since I have been on and a lot has been happening since then!!!
First off The big news is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
My fiance and I are having a baby :) We are so excited for this little blessing in our lives. I'm about 3months along now and loving it!!
Here is our baby's first ultrasound it was such a realistic shock to see the lil bean inside me I LOVED it! And the look on my fiance's face when it popped up on the screen was priceless I cried a little!!

So thats my big news :) I am also running a little Halloween special on my PoPs.
One dozen PoPs arranged in a Halloween arrangement for $15.00!! Great deal!!
Please order via the link to the right side of this blog page:)
Thanks for reading and i will post more soon!!

National Smore's Day

Well Yesterday was national smore's day :)
YUM such a great day!!
I decided to create a different treat that
still incorporated s'mores
and this is what I came up with...
S'mores cupcakes!!!

This is a dark bittersweet choc cupcake
with crushed graham cracker in the cupcake
coated with choc ganache and topped with a
whipped marshmallow meringue and garnished
with some more crushed graham crackers!!
The best part of these is that they are just
as messy oooey gooey as the real smores.
That was half the fun of watching all of my
co workers eat these :0

Well I hope you all celebrated national smores day with an ooey gooey sticky treat if you didn't Shame Shame on you. You have to take advantage of these silly little holidays that give us an excuse to eat some yummy fatty treats right???

Heaven in the form of a cupcake

My addiction to cupcakes is still continuing.
I swear I dream about cupcakes at night and
they are all I think about during the day.
So of course I whipped out the handy dandy
kitchen aid. He is my right hand man.
I love him.
I decided to go with an old fashioned favorite.
.Vanilla.
When my soon to be brother in law said throw some raspberries in.
I have to say his idea was excellent. These
cupcakes came out heavenly. :)

And I decided to put some melted chocolate in the buttercream
and it made it even more heavenly when I topped these
badboys with this frosting. . YUMMY im drooling just
thinking about it.

Don't forget me for your special days or special events. . . you can order online at the following link:
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Have a fantastic evening I know I will when I savor my cupcake tonight :) ha

Cupcakes

It was my sweet little nephews 6th birthday this Saturday so I thought I would whip him up some cupcakes in coordinating colors to his iron man themed birthday!! (plus I have been itching to have a reason to bake up some cupcakes) I visited a local store here that just opened its doors. A cupcake shop!! I wasn't too impressed but my wheels got to turning about cupcakes after that...
Here they are, they were a hit :)

Dutch chocolatey goodness is what I like to call these!!

Well just a short post for now

ta ta ta will have more posts later!! I have a big order of scooby doo pops this week... they will be fun to show off :)

Whoopie Diaster... oops I mean whoopie pies and my sunday

So first off I would just like to say that I have been Loving confessions of a cookbook queen's blog. I love it because I am her ha. . . I would rather eat some sour patch kids for dinner than eat real food, I absolutely would rather sit in a big shirt from my fiance's side of the dresser and sweats and watch my TV shows than socialize and I love baking yummy treats ;)

Anyways I haven't really blogged lately because I haven't had time to bake ughhhh!
So I had yesterday off and I was of course sitting on the couch relaxing with my fiance, looking up recipes I would love to try!! I kept looking at whoopie pies and I guess my fiance could tell I was just ITCHING to try some so we made our trip to walmart to get my whoopie supplies and then it was on like donkey kong.
well it could of turned out better :) but hey in my defense it was my FIRST TIME EVER DOING THESE!!

so I didn't know they would spread out this much , it did get better from here but i forgot to take pictures... they cake parts of them were delish BUT the recipe I used for the filling called for 1 1/4 cups shortning YUCK I just can't even stomach the whoopies now with the texture of the filling. . . BUt I will conquer these one day!


But I did manage to whip up these scrumtious vanilla bean cupcakes!!

Oh and I forgot to tell you about the best part of the baking experience I (yet again) set the oven on fire :) oops I forgot that the other day when I was playing betty crocker making homemade pot pies(to die for homemade pot pies I mean crave these bad boys good yumm) I forgot to clean up the spills in the bottom from when they boiled over a tincy bit, so when I preheated the oven my fiance asked why the oven was smoking and WASN'T the least bit surprised to find a fire in the oven lol! (how sad that it doesn't even phase him anymore when flames occur in the kitchen while im in there)

OH I FORGOT THE TOPPING ON THE CAKE TO THIS WONDERFUL SUNDAY...
for the past couple of months we have been awakened many times during the night by loud thumping up on the roof, many times during the night my lovely wonderful fiance has ran around the house in boxers with his gun trying to figure out what in the heck the noise is (it literally sounds like a boogie monster up on our roof walking around) so after hearing it over and over at night we came to the conclusions birds must be getting up under the eaves. . .
UNTIL last night we walked out on our porch to look at our new solar lights we put all around and we look up and something (BIG) scampered under the eave and then growled at us... UGH (at this point i was yelling at my brother in law in the house to get a flashlight and A GUN) i wasn't about to deal with getting attacked in my own yard at 10pm
So the conclusion.. its not a bird... its not a plane ... its a freaking RACOON... Seriously I think this would be a good time to say FML...

The best part is when we purchased our house(about a yr ago) we noticed we couldn't find the opening to the attic ANYWHERE ... so were assuming that its hidden under our drop down ceiling in one of the bedrooms(that the dumbA** homeowners who redid this house put in) So now as I am writing my blog I am waiting here for a call from my beloved fiance to tell me when the exterminator will be here. UGH Good luck to him trying to find the opening to the attic ...

Have a wonderful day I know I will

hahahah

Summer time bakin~

So I need to vent my anger! My dad text me yesterday and asked if I had read the paper and if I hadn't he had an article he wanted me to read. So I went to his house to read this article about CAKE POPS. Now before I get into why im mad let me just say that I understand that bakerella was the first person to start the cake pop crave and I do realize that there are others out there that are making cake pops into small businesses like myself. "I do know I am not the only person to know how to make these in the world"
but in the article in the paper to the left side it had listed people who have started businesses with cake pops in the local area then off to the right side it had a detailed step by step process on how to make cake pops. This irritated me because here they are listing people who are trying to make ends meet starting a business with these then they give the community the recipe on how to do it. CONTRADICTING if i say so myself!
Oh well life goes on and Im going to keep on doing what i do:) just had to get that off my chest.

So today I woke up and decided that since summer is TRYING to be here I wanted to do some baking that involved a summery taste to it. I baked up some very delicious Lemon PoppySeed Cupcakes with a light lemon frosting!!
These are one of my favorite cupcakes they have such a light airy taste to them and they ALWAYS hit the spot;)

YUMMY...

My lastest Obsession

Ever since I as old enough to sit up on the counter top by myself I have been baking with my mother! I have pictures of me up there helping and I could barely even talk, so lets just say its been in my blood for a while!!
I have grown up with the tradition that every Holiday we make sugar cookies in the shapes that coordinate with the HOliday and then decorate them!!
Now that I live with my soon to be hubby he constantly asks me why are you making cookies again haha)
But lately I have wanted to perfect my decorating, so I have been researching and researching and watching tutorials!!I found one blog that I have just been loving, and it inspired me to bake some cookies.
I have been at my other job a lot the past couple of weeks so I don't have as much time as would like to make cookies but I just wanted to share a couple of pictures of the cookies I did with some new decoration techniques I learned!!

This one is my favorite, im not perfect by any means yet but practice makes perfect right!!!

Craving some baking

Haven't really posted in awhile, I have had a short gap in my cake pop orders(which i have to admit it is nice to see my kitchen counters again) but I have been looking at all of these fabulous blogs with peoples precious cookies and cake pops and I have the itch to bake again!!!
But the problem is I have been so busy with my other two jobs that I don't even have 10 mins to sit down and whip out any tasty treats!! :( BOO HOO

So I before I become so busy with my other two jobs I was having a lot of fun experimenting with cake flavors and flavor combinations... I asked my fans on facebook what flavors they would like to see but they seem to being a bit shy to let me know haha. . . So if anyone comes across this blog please feel free to email me any fun flavors I can play around with :)

Here is my banana bread cake truffles I made the other day...
I absolutely LOVED THESE YUMMM Im drooling right now thinking about them!!

well ta ta for now im off to another long shift at work
hope to post some more fun flavors soooN!!!

Sports

Had a fun day with cake pops just wanted to share with you all, I made some sports pops for a customers order and I think they turned out so cute for my first try at them!!!

Monday Again... How Bittersweet

Well Hello again, I do hope all the mothers out there had a FABULOUS mothers day! I know I made some very cute pops for some very special mothers,I hope you enjoyed them on your special day!
I took my mother out to a very relaxing mothers day lunch for her special day. She is the most amazing person, I couldn't of asked for a better mother i am so blessed!!!

here are some photos of the cute mothers day pops I did. . .

Thank you for all your positive feedback. That is the best part of this business is hearing how happy everyone was with their tasty pops:]

I know all of these fun little holidays like mothers day and st patrick's day are coming to a slow, but remember Petite PoPs when it comes to those memorable days like Birthdays, Anniversary's, Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties, weddings, bridal showers etc.
I want to make all of your special days just a little more special with some customized PoPs just for you!!

One of my part time jobs is working at a "fun zone" with arcade games, birthday parties, pizza and lasertag and just the other day I was watching some of the parties. I noticed what a DISASTER it was when it came to cake and ice cream. These kids were so hopped up on excitement and sugar that they didn't want to sit still while the hostess cut the messy messy cake and the ice cream.
When it finally arrived at the table for the kids to enjoy they didn't want to take 20 mins of their playing time to eat a piece of cake and ice cream, so off they went.
5 mins later the frosting was smeared all over the floor from kids knocking their cake off the table and the ice cream was dripping and making a sticky mess all over the benches and the floor.
WHY DEAL WITH THIS? make this part fun for the kids, give them cake on a stick that they can eat in two bites and go back to playing. Don't you agree?
So don't deal with the messiness of traditional cake and ice cream, order some customized PoPs for these special days:]

Well I'm off to making some more PoPs, Have a fabulous day♥

Mothers Day is coming soon!!

I have been very busy with Mothers Day PoPs, which is wonderful :] There is still time to order some mothers day PoPs, but do it NOW ;)(the link is located at the bottom of the page)
I am so glad that I have started doing these PoPs, it is such a great gift to give, so different and can be customized to each individual persons likes.
I will post more pictures when I finish all of the orders!!
Don't forget to like my Petite PoPs page on facebook!! I'm always shooting out important information and giveaways!!

Many fun and exciting things are coming soon, I know many seniors are about to graduate high school here at the end of may, as well as many college graduates!! Summer is on its way as well, which brings many fun events like summer birthday parties, golf tournaments, fourth of July and the start of school again!! What a better way to celebrate these fun events than with Cake PoPs :]
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