Harley Quinn

My oldest just turned 12.  I love it and I hate it.  I love bearing witness to the formation of her own personality; her passions and beliefs.  I hate the smell of tween angst.

Last year, she let me off easy with an ice cream cake from DQ...because I had just finished moving, rearranging, remodeling, and painting three bedrooms - including hers.  For her.  So she could have her own room.  This year; however she continued to challenge my limited cake skills.

She is getting into comics and her favorite comic character is Harley Quinn.  She asked if she could have a Harley Quinn cake and I was a bit nervous.  I'm not good at faces (like, at all), and red and black frosting coloring can end up tasting bad.  So I thought on it for weeks, until about a week and a half before her party, things started to hit me.

I'll cut the sheet cake into a diamond shape!  I'll use an icing strip instead of coloring the frosting!  I'll make a mallet out of Cocoa Krispies!  I'll make cake pop bombs!  All of these things added up to an awesome, easy cake (that kept me up until 1am).  I am proud of the finished product and most importantly, my girl loved it!

PS:  Every other time I use candy melts for cake pops, they don't melt properly causing me much frustration.  This was one of those times.