Pinterest Fail

So, I like to try things I find on Pinterest. Try being the key word, as I am that classic Pinterest Fail person. But I keep trying...sometimes it works out. Anyway, Emma has asked for pink cake balls for her birthday for a while. I thought the Oreo truffles were pretty much the same thing, and I like them better and they are easier. Anyway, we have made them before, just never with sticks. And we will probably never do them with sticks again. Even though they were in the freezer the whole time we were skyping with daddy, they were really too soft. We put them in the colanders to dry, but they started to melt/sag/fall off the sticks. Oh and the sprinkles...yikes. I have done the little pink sprinkles before, they work well, but the multicolored ball ones...not so much. It was just a mess. And trying to do this with an almost 4 year old....who really just wanted to eat it all and lick everything...it was just an interesting experience. Not what I had imagined at all. I have done these before, they went fine before. I felt so bad as we were planning on giving these away to her friends at her party, but they definitely don't look like what she wanted. But thankfully she is 4 and not 14. After doing it all with me, she looked at them and said, "They are so much beautiful. I love them!" Sigh. Those are the little moments that make the giant sugary mess worth it.  And well,  we made some memories, too. :) 

Her favorite part I think is tasting everything.

Put stick in ball.

Dip in chocolate.

Smile for mom.

Lick fingers.

We had to take them off the colanders since they were so soft. Some got little cupcake papers...but they were really to big for them. The sprinkles worked better in my mind than in reality. The chocolate was too warm and they drripped.

I'm not one to waste chocolate! So we dipped our strawberries, too. :) She was a happy, chocolatey girl.