Ball Drops

As I have stated over and over our cake pop business seems like a winner but I am beginning to have my doubts.  Amy has stated in her previous blogs that the beautiful cake pops atop a stick will suddenly slide down the stick for no apparent reason.  How true!!  I was making another birthday bouquet of cake pops for my granddaughter when I looked over at the three pops that I had made and this was the picture of loveliness that I saw.  Ugh!  What happened and why didn't they stay on top of the stick? 

Cake pops are a fun confectionery treat that gives the baker a difficult time.  You must shape and melt the candy so that all will stay on top the the tiny little stick when all the while gravity is fighting to bring it down.  It is a wonder that any cake pops stay up at all but indeed many cake pops do.  However, the frustration of making 20 cake pops for a bouquet and throwing away at least 6 of them to the ball drop is a nightmare.  As the reader can see once they fall the next step is the trash since there is no amount of work that will fix the fallen, misshapen dropped ball.  The stick is also gooey and sticky so the whole thing must do directly to the trash.

It is a wonder that you can actually make enough good pops to go into the box for mailing.  I am not sure what we would do with an order of 20 birthday bouquets to ship.  That would be a total of 400 cake pops to make and I can only picture Amy and I totally frustrated by the sound that comes when a pop drops to the bottom of the stick.  At least 50 pops out of the 400 would fall and have to be thrown out.  Amy and I would never get to leave the kitchen.  It would be an endless day of making the round little misshapen balls atop a stick and then the ball drops like a rock.  And the adventure would not be complete without packaging for shipping!  Oh, the packaging!!  The packaging requires careful handling so that the pops are perfect upon arrival.  Oh, I think our little business is in jeopardy of failing before it has started.