Ready To POP

One of the ladies at our church is having a baby in June, and so we wanted to throw her a baby shower.  I love planning events, so even though I'd never even been to a baby shower- let alone hosted one, I decided this was something I wanted to do.

We went with the theme "Ready to POP".  This left for a lot of creativity when it came to the food.  We had cake pops, pop corn cake, pink pop and poppable cucumber sandwiches.

A sweet friend of mine gave me the chocolate melter from babycakes.  While it did a good job keeping the chocolate warm, I had to actually melt the chocolate in the microwave.  But I very much appreciated it.

I bought marked down Easter sprinkles from Aldi- perfect baby shower colors

Pink vanilla flavored Candy Wafers from  Hobby Lobby.

Mmmmmm

Baby colors sprinkles

I used strawberry Pilsberry cake mix.  If you would like to see my post on making cake pops, please visit cake-obsession-continues-cake-pops.html.

THEN, through pinterest I found this recipe for pop corn cake.  It's made just like a rice crispy bar.  I also found these new dark chocolate raspberry (pink) M&Ms, pretzels and Market Pantry microwave pop corn.

First, you pop 2 bags of pop corn,  then you add 2 cups of M&Ms and  1 1/2 cup broken pretzels.

Then I melted one (10.5 oz) bag of mini marshmallows with 1 cup of butter.

It said to wait a minute or two, so it wouldn't melt the chocolate, which I did, but it still melted. :(  So maybe wait a little more.  Then poor over dry ingredients, stir together, and press into bunts pan.

Let sit for an hour, take out and... VOILA!!!

M-m-m!!!

And these are the yummy strawberry cake pops.

How cute is that!? :)