Among the requests we got after that first batch of cake pops (see previous blog post about those) was to do a WEDDING! We had to make 80 cake pops in 4 varieties, I believe it was -- and we were still doing them "the old way" where we baked cakes, mushed them into balls and then decorated -- so it took a few hours to do that many. But we did it -- and they came out great!
We had perfected the process a bit by this point -- the balls were smaller, and we'd learned to use big styrafoam pieces as "stands" for letting the decorated pops cool/set. We could work a lot faster this way. However, everything really improved for the better when I happened past this incredible gadget in Bed, Bath & Beyond: 
This nifty machine can cook the cake pop balls from scratch in just 5-6
minutes (depends if it's yellow or chocolate cake, or awesome SIL's
invention of brownie pops instead of chocolate cake) -- so no more
baking a cake, cooling a cake, reconstituting a cake into balls with
frosting, refrigerating, and THEN decorating. It's much faster, the
balls are perfectly sized every time and structurally sound, AND I think
these taste much better than the reconstituted-from-cake version.
Without further ado, here is a gallery of my cake pop creations to date -- they include a pastel colored baby shower (with cute ribbon stand), my first attempt at cupcake pops using Reese's cups for the base (these were adorable but not too stable, may have to try Bakerella's approach next if I were making these for more than immediate consumption and cute pictures), Valentine's, Halloween and Christmas pops, and a groovy assortment I made just for fun/practice.
Thanks for all the fun times & inspiration, Erika!
Here's to many more cake pops and the corresponding celebrations!
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