I am Queen of the Cake Poppers. And the Filthy Kitchens.
LilZ had a theatre event that required him to sign up for me to provide baked goods. Of course he chose his fave: cake poppers. I knew I’d need two batches, one for Monday and one for Tuesday evening. However, the driving and chaos of the previous week had me doing my usual procrastinating and I found myself just cooking the first cake Sunday night. The cake has to cool completely before you make the poppers so I knew I’d have to make them early Monday to get the first batch done by the time of the performance. Well…little did I know that LilZ roped his friend who is staying with us for the week into helping him at the event. This meant she needed baked goods so he signed her up for Rice Krispy treats with the good intentions of making them for her since he convinced her to help him. Can you guess what happened next? He forgot until Sunday night. He begged me to help so I spent all day Monday doing goodies for this event and OH MY GOD. I am so proud of myself. SERIOUSLY. Do you see these things? The labels? The bags? The yumminess? Yes. This post serves no other purpose but to show off HOW AWESOME I AM.
(I am aware that many of you do this type of thing several times a week. Humor me as I praise myself since I never do this stuff EVER. Thanks.)
I read something this week where someone complained about the perfection of the photos of other blogger’s lives that document their baking beauties and their crafting creations. I subscribe to a lot of blogs that do the same thing and I find myself jealous and insecure looking at their photos in their perfect kitchens in their fancy homes. I do NOT want you make the mistake of thinking I might come even close to being that cool. Nothing I do is ever as pretty as my photos look. My house is always a disaster millimeters out of the focus and I intentionally choose photos to show you that don’t spotlight the cat puke on my carpet or the diet coke cans on my counters. So…here is a glimpse of what my kitchen looked like during BakeFest 2010.
These towels stayed on the floor all day, I just slid them around the cover up the newest spill.
I assure you my messes would be worse if I didn’t have the luxury of dogs to eat all of my crumbs and splatters.
What? Should I not admit that out loud?
LilZ reported back that the cake poppers went too fast to even document. They were gone in MILLISECONDS. I wear that like a badge of honor bestowed upon the bravest heroes. It’s a lot for a newbie in the kitchen, you know. If only I could bask in the glory of my achievements instead of doing it all again for tomorrow.
*Sigh*
Thank you for the dirty kitchen photos. It makes me feel better about my own dirty kitchen! Those baked good photos make me want to make the kitchen even dirtier & whip up a batch of those red velvet cake poppers.
You are a ROCKSTAR!
You’re awesome! i wish I had gone to your bake sale so I could finally try a cake popper! (I know, I know, I could just make some – but I obviously need an occasion of some sort or I would eat them all myself!)
We call the dogs “The Cleanup Crew.” We keep them out while we’re feeding the baby because he doesn’t realize the dogs won’t do fake bites of his snack like Mom and Dad. When he’s done we announce “Here comes the Cleanup Crew” and they eat all the bits left on the floor and the one stands on her hind legs to eat off the high chair seat. heh
Mandy is also known as the Barcumer (Bark + Vacummer) my Mom is proud.
And thanks so much for the full picture because I took some shots the other day of a recipe and then I opted out of posting it because there would be no picture left if i cropped out the mess. Now I feel all kinds of vain for this…next time I’ll just let it go. Thanks for taking the lead!
And you’re awesome…cake poppers and varieties of rice crispy treats – Yum!
awesome job! this actually gives me a really good idea! I’ve been toying with the idea of a fundraiser for my son (he has CP) and I was thinking a luncheon for $5 bucks a plate. these would be great to sell in addition to the lunch plate. and I love your packaging. did you have sticks for the poppers or left them more as balls?
My kitchen is torn apart, so right now, I am jealous of how neat yours IS!! I can only find counter space around my sink.
Something you might try….freezing cake poppers. I heard someone hear at work say they keep a stash in the freezer JUST IN CASE.
You are a total Rock Star!!! and should wear that badge of honor proudly!!
Love it! And I am going to make some of your cake poppers one of these days. Like, when I get my stove, and have a way to bake them
So I am not the only one that has a towel on the floor for spills?! With two kids running around and a dog too, I always have at least one to wipe things up. In fact, I have a dedicated floor towel, lol.
How would my kitchen floor look like without a dog…?
I don’t want to know.
I love the Diet Coke in the pics!
Yay Yay! I like you even more! Your kitchen so totally looks like mine! No wonder our children are happy! I’m def looking for the poppers tonight…..Better snag them before they disappear!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I love the pictures of your kitchen mid-mess.