Tennis Anyone?

A few weeks ago, my oldest niece (and goddaughter) Alex finished her last tennis season of her high school career.  She is a senior this year and soon enough will be off to college.  How can it possibly be that she is old enough to have a license, drive a car, and be graduating high school!?! It seriously seems like just yesterday that she was born!  But before I get too mushy....back to the tennis! 

Tennis has become a major part of Alex's life over the course of her middle and high school career.  She is a fabulous tennis player, and as such, was her team's captain this year. 

With all her hard work and dedication to her team over the years, my sister thought it was only fitting for Alex to have some special sweets at her last tennis dinner.

So when she asked me to make some tennis themed cake pops, of course I was happy to oblige!

I made some pops that looked like tennis balls (with gold shimmer, of course!):

And some with the school colors and letters of Alex's high school (with some silver shimmer for a little extra bling!):

Here is the whole fleet of tennis pops all ready to go to the party:

But just having these super cute pops was not enough.  Oh no!  My very crafty sister found a design for tiny tennis courts to display the cake pops...how great does this look:

What a fantastic touch, right? Everything looked amazing down to the teeny tiny tennis nets partitioning the two sides of the chocolate candy coated courts:

And this is how the whole display looked at the dinner:

I was so happy with the final result of the pops and the courts!  And I am even more thrilled to say that they were a huge hit with all Alex's team mates and their families!  Score for Eat Your Sweets' team! Hooray!

I hope you all liked these latest creations of mine, I definitely had a lot of fun making them!

Until next time, be sure to eat those sweets and enjoy this sweet time of the year with friends and family...the truly sweetest part of the holiday season.