Cake Pops & Cake Pops & Cake Pops & Cake Pops.

Not usually being one to follow fashion trends, I barely follow food trends, either. However, back in February, whilst looking for a cute present idea for a friend, I came across cake pops a.k.a a lollipop of cake. Literally. I was straight onto this, spending a lot of time Googling to find the perfect recipe. Unfortunately, the process of making them took a very long time- the cakes had to be cooked, rolled, frozen, covered, frozen, etc! By the end of it they weren't very circular and could even be classed as a failure (even though they still tasted uhhhhmazing).

Fast foward six months and I happen to stumble upon this little beauty while looking for a present for another friend. I immediately told the friend I initially made cake pops with. The conversation went something like this:

"I JUST FOUND A MACHINE THAT MAKES CAKE POPS FOR YOU!!"

"OH MY GODDDD!!!"

The excitement was clearly unreal. 

Flash another month forward when the above friend and I took an impromptu trip to a shopping centre to buy food and happened to wander past Argos. One catalog check later and we were holding the cake pop maker.

So initially, it looks like a terrifying heat trap of burning death, as the inside is completely black. Yet you feel completely intrigued. Saving you the details, we made a standard cake mix, added food colouring for added pzazz and threw 12 into the maker. I present you with...

The magical pile of already made cake pops!

The blue ones are blue food colouring, not green as everyone thought. ( :( ). The maker comes with a cooling rack which is handy for when the pops come out of the maker (which takes literally five minutes... amazing!) and is also good for putting sticks into the pops. I found one little cake pop which resembled a cupcake and decided I loved it... the results weren't too cupcakey. 

Don't laugh... the red splodge is a cherry made of icing.

All in all, I love the invention of the cake pop maker and it makes making cake pops so much easier. We got the one we used from Argos, as pictured:

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Until next time, have fun making and eating cake pops!

I love your face... too?

Right now, my life is a jumble of essays and personal statements. It's hectic to say the least. There's barely any time to breathe. However a crisis occurred bang in the middle of a busy week of college work... the worst thing imaginable... my laptop... broke.

Internet was gone, work was unsaved, sanity was dwindling and fast. 

One new laptop later and I'm back in business, with a CTRL key that works, finally. So I'm back to my blog with a shiny new outlook (no, seriously, my laptop is white and is literally shiny).

Nothing substantial has happened in the last week if I am honest, wrote a few essays, ate Nandos and generally had a week off from college. One thing that made me smile, however is my friend Lucy made the cutest new youtube video which also involved me recieving a text at midnight on Monday simply saying 

"Just wanted to let you know I love yo face... That's all. K?xoxox"

Not only did I feel flattered, I was confused, to say the least. As it turns out, she had a maniacal plan all along to make her friends feel loved by sending them a kind text for them to wake up to. I sort of ruined that by replying at 11:57pm. Sorry Lucy. 

Watch her incredibly kind and sweet video here:

So aside from all the love, another major November event (no, silly, not Movember!) is NaNoWriMo, which stupid me unfortunately missed *sadface*. I'm not sure starting 6 days too late would allow me to finish in time, which is a huge shame, as I have always wanted to do it. I'm looking forward to all of the happy tweets from people who have managed to finish in time, though!

Until next time, auf weidersehn!