Making Cinder Slippers

 Here's all the steps I took for the cake pops, if anyone is interested.

Bake the cake as the box says. Crumble it up in a bowl and add a couple scoops of frosting.
I chose yellow cake and chocolate frosting because I like how they taste together. 

 Mix.

 Roll into balls and then stick them in the freezer for 15-20 minutes so they hold their shape without crumbling.

 Melt a little bit of chocolate, dip your stick in, and insert the stick in half to 3/4 of the way. Let the chocolate set. I just used those little chocolate discs that you melt in the microwave.

Once it is set you can pick them up by the stick and dip them and they stay intact. I tinted the white chocolate slightly for a more peachy skin color, but I didn't quite to enough. They still look pretty white, but oh well. Nobody complained. After I dipped as above, I stuck on pink and black sprinkles for eyes and cheeks. Then I set them upright in this handy cake pop holder from Walmart to harden up.

 I had some extra white (peachish) chocolate left over when they were all dipped, so I dyed it pink and piped it out onto some parchment paper for hair bows. (seen below) Before I did the yellow hair I used a toothpick and some black decorating gel to add the mouths and eyelashes.

 I used some yellow chocolate for the hair. First I dipped them, like so. And then I let that set.

Cinder Slippers' hair actually is supposed to stick up, but I didn't know how to make that work with melty chocolate, so I gave her a little swirly bun type hair do instead. After dipping her head in yellow, I put the rest of the chocolate in a piping bag and piped on a few layers of swirls for her hair, letting each layer set. I gave her her little bangs and stuck the bow on last.

Ta Da! Cinder Slippers

times 21.

This whole process took about five hours. Chelsea's reaction? "Oh, they look better than the first ones."

That was a little deflating at first because I expected a much more excited and impressed reaction from her. But then I realized she had no idea how much work they were, and she liked them, and that's all that mattered. And I had a LOT of fun with these little pops!