One of the many joys of having grandchildren is getting to spoil them on their birthdays. In my family two of my granddaughters share the same January date for their birthday. This year I decided to do something special and send them each an order of hand made cake pops for their birthdays.
My daughter was thrilled with the idea of receiving cake pops to celebrate her own daughters birthday. She just had a few requests all organic products, no store bought ingredients, and a variety of flavors to suit any palate.
Sounds simple enough, right? Since my daughter had made all the initial requests I decided that I would send my son the exact same kind of cake pop bouquet for his daughter's birthday as well. Having gathered all the ingredients over the weekend I rushed home one day after work to make the pops.
Amy had complained incessantly about the time consuming quality of making cake pops, but I had previously blown her off, because she tends to complain about everything. (i.e. her complaints about blogging) Needless to say before I knew it I was up to my elbows in batter, frosting, and candy melts, mushing and smushing and rolling to get just the right shape before I shoved in the sticks.
With my husband manning the packaging and mummifying each box with tape until they could survive a world war we finished the cake pops in just under four hours. At this rate we would have to charge five hundred dollars per bouquet of cake pops just to justify all the time and effort, but since these were for my two special granddaughters I didn't mind the work.
After the birthdays were done and the all organic, homemade, plethora of flavor cake pops were consumed I got a call from my son. He has successfully built his own business and has watched the crafting of my and Amy's business venture with interest.
"The cake pops were great Mom" he said. "I just have a few suggestions, the chocolate ones were a little doughy and when you bit them well they tended to slide right of the stick. The maple ones were good but the candy melts were really glopped on them. Now I am not criticizing just trying to give constructive comments to help."
"Uh huh" I muttered. "Well thanks for the input I will fill out a suggestion sheet with your comments right away." Great I thought once we had gotten off the phone critiques from my own son. I can only imagine the flood of complaints that would follow the advent of paying customers.
I think maybe Amy and I should just cater our business to kids. I like the words of my three year old granddaughter best. Upon receiving her cake pops she screamed "yeah pop cakes I love them", and to the rest I say let them eat cake, pops that is!
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