What you’ll need:

1. One box cake mix of your choice. Red Velvet is always pretty and Devil’s Food is my favorite.
2. One container of ready-made icing. Any color or flavor will do, but we love Cream Cheese.
3. Candy Melts or Chocolate Bark (see notes below).
4. Lollipop sticks
5. Waxed Paper

Directions:

1. You begin by baking the cake in a 9 x 13 pan according to directions. Let it cool for several hours or overnight. Then you crumble the cake in a large bowl. Then you dump in the tub of icing (a little less than the full tub, actually) and stir the mixture together. Slowly but surely, the icing will totally incorporate into the cake and the mixture will be totally uniform in color when perfectly combined.
2. Grab pinches of the mixture and roll them into balls. Insert a lollipop stick into the center of each ball. Then: IMPORTANT! You place the cake balls into the fridge for a couple of hours OR into the freezer for a little while. You want them to be nice and firm. Not frozen solid, but not mushy.
3. Now, just before you pull them out of the fridge/freezer, you need to melt your chocolate. Chocolate or Almond Bark from the baking aisle at the supermarket works well or pop some wafers or bark into a microwave-safe bowl and heat for 30 seconds at a time, stirring after each 30-second increment. You can also melt the chocolate in a double boiler. The key when you’re melting the chocolate is to begin using it just after it fully melts and not to continue heating it. Under constant heat, it can dry out.
4. Once it’s thoroughly melted, just dip the cake ball into the chocolate using the lolly pop stick. Since it’s cold and firm, it should hold its shape and not crumble. Notice that you’ll want the melted chocolate to be deep enough in the bowl to allow the cake ball to be almost submerged. Tall, deep bowls are better then wide, shallow bowls. Also, keep your chocolate at a moderate temperature. If it is too hot, it won’t be thick enough to coat the cake ball, but if it is too cold it will be too difficult to manage and you won’t get a smooth finish.
5. Once you submerge your cake ball and it is covered evenly hold the cake pop upwards, you can take an angled knife to clean up the bottom of the cake pop and make a clean edge. Once the pop is covered, while warm either dip or sprinkle confetti or any kind of sugar glitter, then place in a Styrofoam hold to dry and use to later serve in.

Wedding Walk Tacoma is a one day event, coming Sunday, February 11th, 2011, that will introduce prospective brides, grooms, wedding attendants and their family and friends to Tacoma, as a one-stop shopping destination for weddings, while sampling excellent food, wonderful beverages and touring Tacoma’s most beautiful places to get married.

Brides, grooms, friends and family will walk the Downtown Tacoma Business District, stopping at the Marriott and Pacific Grill Event Center,  then walking down Pacific Avenue to the Tacoma Art Museum, Union Station, and the History Museum before crossing the Chihuly Bridge to the Museum of Glass on the water.

There are approximately 60 premier businesses and sponsors participating from categories such as floral design, formal wear, hotel and banquet halls, invitations and printing, jewelers, photographers, salons and spas, shoes and accessories, and bakeries.

Participants can choose to walk, ride in a limo, or hop on Tacoma’s Link lightrail to the featured venues. After visiting all locations, participants will be entered to win a Grand Prize Raffle.

Red Letter Events is excited to be the Wedding Walk Tacoma wedding and event planner for the Tacoma Art Museum. Purchase your ticket in December 2010 and take $10 Off the regular price.

Red Letter Events is a proud supporter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Alaska & Washington.

Dear Friends,

We’re on an important mission to rekindle the holiday spirit and we need your help.

Quite simply, we’re asking America to believe. This holiday season, join Macy’s and the Make-A-Wish Foundation® to help collect a million reasons to believe.

What is the Believe campaign? Beginning on November 6, children across the country are invited to drop off their letters — stamped and addressed to Santa at the North Pole — in the Santa Mail letterbox at any Macy’s store. For each letter received, Macy’s will donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, up to $1 million dollars to help grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. We’ll be picking up letters from our local Macy’s and getting them on their way to the North Pole.

What is the Make-A-Wish Foundation? The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.

Be an inspiration. You are in a unique position to really make a difference. Write your own letter to Santa and drop it off at your local Macy’s store today. Inspire your children, peers, family and friends to get involved by writing their letters, too.

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Just post your comment by July 31, 2009. Somewhere in your comment, write “Enter Me” so we know you want in on the drawing. Don’t worry – if your Pierce County, WA wedding or event is prior to this date, and your name is drawn, we’ll refund 50% of your total fees. The winner will be notified via email and on our website. So let us know what you think – it really matters to us.