Wednesday is the first day of Fall and there are mixed
feelings flowing through the air. On one hand, Fall is awesome. The foliage is
beautiful, the pies are delicious, and the beers have pumpkin in them. On the
other hand: impending doom. Is there anything better than the autumn
atmosphere?
Only acceptable answer: The atmosphere of never again having
to experience this past winter.
You would be hard pressed to find a native New Englander
who doesn’t love Autumn, but I think we still have some snow melting so it’s
hard to get excited. BUT instead of focusing on the implementation of snow
tunnel routes for transportation, let’s instead bask in all the glory that is
Autumn. Apples, spices, pumpkins, squash, football, playoff baseball, corn
mazes, Halloween, haunted houses, Thanksgiving, AND (my personal favorite) my
23rd birthday.
Autumn is everything it needs to be before the pale,
frostbitten, ice-hell that is Winter.
Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, MA). Photo by Bethany Groff
I mentioned football because if there is one thing that the Northeast lacks, it is not football teams. The defending champion New England
Patriots no doubt being the favorite here at My Grandma's. I, on the other
hand, am the black sheep New Yorker who is a Giants and * gasp * Yankees fan. Needless to say, Autumn is fun around the office.
In the spirit of
Autumn and football and My Grandma’s, I decided to kick off Week 1 with some
cake pops shaped like NFL helmets. Now, you could say “Hey Amy, it’s already
week 3…”, and you would be correct. I ran into some technical difficulties.
Taste-wise? Superb. I simply rolled a mixture of Cinnamon No-Nut coffee cake
and some buttercream icing into little balls. How could it taste anything less
than amazing?
I would also like it
to be known that this is not my first time making cake pops. They are tiny and
they are delicious but they are not that easy to make. The problem I keep
running into is that the lollipop sticks wont stick to the cake pop, making it
really hard to dip into the melted chocolate.
But, like I said,
they tasted great so that’s all that mattered.
I’m sure everyone
knows the outcomes to both of these games by now. The Patriots unsurprisingly
won by a touchdown and the Giants unsurprisingly did something stupid and lost
the game.
But because the cake
pops didn't come out the way I would have hoped, the picture-lighting wasn’t great,
and my team is the Giants, I held off on posting that blog. That left me with 10 lbs
of fondant and no blog, so I decided to make a few more fall fondant figures.
My ego took a hit with the cake pop football helmets but I think I redeemed
myself with the witch’s hat and pumpkin.
I’m going to spend
Fall 2015 eating coffee cake and choosing a new football team to root for. How
are you going to spend it?
