Cake Pop Tragedy

A few months ago I made some cake pops for a family gathering and they turned out pretty darn good for my first time!  Well, my Aunt loved them and asked me to make them for her for a family gathering she was having this past weekend, I thought no problem this should be a piece of cake, ha ha ha!  Knowing that these puppies take awhile to make I decided that I would make them the weekend before and freeze them until I was able to get them to her.  Boy O Boy!!, all I have to say is it was pretty much downhill hill from the get go!

Below is the timeline of the disaster....

• Aunt requests yellow candy coating, all the store has is blue.
• I melt candy coating and somehow screw it up!
• Candy coating is fixed with a lil crisco, gross!
• All goes well and they look perfect!
• Transport them home, they have a few issues on the way home but nothing too major.
• Place cake pops in freezer for safe keeping.
• Power goes out for HOURS, I panic, I leave work early to go rescue cake pops (Ya, try explaining that one to your boss).
• Pack up dog and cake pops and head to the parents house.
• Cake pops are defrosting (OH NO!!!!) and sprinkles are starting to run (Double OH NO!).
• Cake pops go back into freezer and start to crack (Too much freezing and defrosting).
• Take cake pops back home once the power is back on.
• Cake pops look like HELL.
• Aunt picks up cake pops, I apologize for their appearance, she is polite and says they look GREAT!

Before!

After!

Ya, they look like CRAP!

So SAD, sniff, sniff, tear! :(

It was a total cake pop tragedy!