Baking Vs Thinking About Baking

Without actually purchasing and preparing ingredients to bake into a wonderful creation, i have become obsessed with baking.

Googling recipes but not actually putting them into practice is quite an unusual bandwagon to jump on i must admit, but i am having such a good time doing it, and i am actually learning alot of baking tips and tricks... (I find interests in the most unusual things).

Another thing i am obsessed with, is FACEBOOK, but really in this day and age, who isn't, right? Anyway i was on my regular facebook late night lurk when i saw a post from one of my favourite pages in my news feed.

It was a post about CAKE POPS,  the minute i saw this i immediately clicked the link and spent the next 2 or 3 hours googling cake pops and different cake pop recipes. It was like i had never seen them before, and it was this amazing creation, right before my eyes... (I haven't been living under a  rock, i have seen Cake Pops before). So i clicked the link and i was taken to the Bubble and Sweet  blog page. Linda. V, is soooooo talented and creative, her ideas are just fabulous. Her recipes are fun and quirky and i have really enjoyed reading and rummaging through this beautiful little blog.

She has these heavenly little Rainbow and Cloud cake pops on her blog at the moment, and they are so adorable, so of course i set myself a goal "tomorrow i'm going to make these", however after reading the recipe i became less and less motivated, having to find things like "fondant" at Woolies could have proven to be quite difficult. So i had a chat to Linda via facebook, she then lead me to these little beauties, Tim Tam Cookie Pops!! Ahhhh YUM. This recipe seemed alot simpler, and it was very cute. Being Gluten Free though i often struggle to find good Gluten Free recipes, to which Linda replied "You could just use Gluten Free tim tams, instead of normal tim tams", what a GREAT idea, why didn't i think of that?? Derrrr Courtney!!!!

It is now 5pm on Thursday evening and im not any closer to creating a gluten free version of Bubble and Sweet's great recipe. Instead i have spent this entire day googling and researching cake pops, could i be anymore nerdy??? 

Yes, i too, find it just as weird that i have more motivation to google recipes than i do to actually bake them, it could be due to the fact that its been raining all day and i would have had to go out in the rain to purchase the ingredients required to make these yummy treats, or the old faithful "courtney you're just lazy" which is closer to the truth.

After i had come across Bubble and Sweet's divine cake pops, i went on a googleventure (google adventure) and stumbled upon the most incredible website, BAKERELLA!!!! This persons creativity with cake pops absolutely blew me away, she is sooo incredibly talented, she has everything you can imagine from Mrs Potts (Beauty and the Beast) to eyeballs, from The Muppets to spiders and reindeers, whatever you could think of, i'm almost certain you will find it in the Cake Pops section of her website. 

I also have to share with you these amazing Valentines Day cookies, your Valentine would find it hard to say "No" to you should you hand them one of these babies... Too cute!!

One of my favourite "bakers" i guess you could say is my Aunty Karyn, she is FABULOUS!!
Not only does she work her normal office job, she also spends hours and hours devoted to her beautiful business Sweet n Pretty.
Baking beautiful cakes and wonderful cookies is what she loves to do, and boy is she GREAT at it.
You can see how much love and care goes into each and every one of her special creations, her attention to detail is amazing and her creativity and dedication is just incredible.

I am so proud of my Aunty and all that she has accomplished, her work has been showcased in magazines and her business is really taking off.
If i am ever asked about cakes or cookies, i will always point you in her direction, because it really doesn't get any better than Karyn Patching and her Sweet n Pretty creations.

Im off to google more, and bake less hahaha.. When i try the GF Cake Pops, i'll be sure to let you know how it goes..

Bubble and Sweet- "Cloud Rainbow Cake Pop"

Sweet n Pretty- "Funny Face, Cookies"

Sweet n Pretty- "Wedding Cake"

Bakerella- "Reindeer Cake Pop"

Bakerella- "Mrs Potts Cake Pop"

In the words of Ellen DeGeneres "Be Kind to One Another"

Courtney xox