Yeah, it's a mouthful of a name, but when I decided to create a cake pop for my charming boyfriend, it not only had to be tasty, but also a bit witty.
The tasty part was a bit of a challenge. I mean, this is a person who is not a fan of desserts. You offer him a ten layer chocolate torte oozing with layers of rich cream and smothered with chocolate ganache and fresh strawberries and he'll say, "Eh". Give him chunks of creamy Swiss chocolate and he'll say, "Nah." I know, crazy, right?
So what does peak his interest? The minute I said Grand Marnier, his eyes lit up. So orange cake laced with Grand Marnier became the core of the cake pops. And the candy coating? Dark chocolate has always been a favorite pairing with orange flavor (I absolutely loved the dark chocolate covered orange peels from the department store candy counters where they sold luxury truffles and the sort by the pound). Fortunately, RJ prefers dark chocolate over milk chocolate, so the choice as immediately approved. Simple and clean flavors... nothing else was needed. Just a name for this new concoction.
Dessert may not be RJ's favorite subject, but there is one thing that is. And that's PIRATES! One of the first years we were together, I threw him a pirate-themed birthday celebration where the guests came in pirate costumes and the beverages came with plenty of rum. We named our ship the Flying Dachshund (after the Flying Dutchman). I even designed a pirate flag for him to put on the invitations. It was a black flag with a skeletal flying dachshund wearing a bandanna and an eye patch. I really need to find that image and recreate it on a physical flag to hang in his man cave.
Anyways, back to the pops... anyone who knows anything about pirates knows that they fought off the effects of the scurvy by making sure they carried plenty of citrus on board... like oranges (well, I think they mostly ate limes, but close enough). At any rate, I bet even hardened blood-thirsty pirates wouldn't say no to these cake pops.
So the journey to make these pops turned out to be quite an adventure. Little did I know that it would turn out to be a "pirate" adventure, but creating these pops was still a lot of fun. Tied off with a little kitchen twine that looks like rope, all I needed to complete the dressing on these cake pops were some skull and crossbones stickers to put on the wrappers.
The tasty part was a bit of a challenge. I mean, this is a person who is not a fan of desserts. You offer him a ten layer chocolate torte oozing with layers of rich cream and smothered with chocolate ganache and fresh strawberries and he'll say, "Eh". Give him chunks of creamy Swiss chocolate and he'll say, "Nah." I know, crazy, right?
So what does peak his interest? The minute I said Grand Marnier, his eyes lit up. So orange cake laced with Grand Marnier became the core of the cake pops. And the candy coating? Dark chocolate has always been a favorite pairing with orange flavor (I absolutely loved the dark chocolate covered orange peels from the department store candy counters where they sold luxury truffles and the sort by the pound). Fortunately, RJ prefers dark chocolate over milk chocolate, so the choice as immediately approved. Simple and clean flavors... nothing else was needed. Just a name for this new concoction.
Dessert may not be RJ's favorite subject, but there is one thing that is. And that's PIRATES! One of the first years we were together, I threw him a pirate-themed birthday celebration where the guests came in pirate costumes and the beverages came with plenty of rum. We named our ship the Flying Dachshund (after the Flying Dutchman). I even designed a pirate flag for him to put on the invitations. It was a black flag with a skeletal flying dachshund wearing a bandanna and an eye patch. I really need to find that image and recreate it on a physical flag to hang in his man cave.
Anyways, back to the pops... anyone who knows anything about pirates knows that they fought off the effects of the scurvy by making sure they carried plenty of citrus on board... like oranges (well, I think they mostly ate limes, but close enough). At any rate, I bet even hardened blood-thirsty pirates wouldn't say no to these cake pops.
So the journey to make these pops turned out to be quite an adventure. Little did I know that it would turn out to be a "pirate" adventure, but creating these pops was still a lot of fun. Tied off with a little kitchen twine that looks like rope, all I needed to complete the dressing on these cake pops were some skull and crossbones stickers to put on the wrappers.
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