Chattanooga residents craving sugar in proper portion size can order Enchanting Delights’ cake pops.
“We started out with cake pops but we decided to name ourselves Enchanting Delights so we could branch out into bite-sized treats,” said Enchanting Delights Cake Pops and Other Creatively Coated Confections owner Tamarah Daniel, of East Brainerd. “The bite-sized treat is enough for a serving size.”
Enchanting Delights Cake Pops and Other Creatively Coated Confections owners Erica Thornton, left, and Tamarah Daniel, holding Micah Daniel, age 2, invite people to try out their cake pops dipped in chocolate. Micah says he prefers to eat lemon cake pops. Thornton’s daughter Summer, not pictured, prefers to eat chocolate cake pops.Enchanting Delights co-owner Erica Thornton said one client orders a cake pop weekly as a post-workout treat.
“[Tamarah and I have] always wanted to start a business,” said Thornton, who also lives in East Brainerd. “We’ve been best friends for years. We started creating cake pops in September by making sweets for friends and family. My daughter’s class liked it. I made the class strawberry heart-shaped cake pops for Valentine’s Day.”
Thornton said the cake pops are rolled cake with frosting. Some have jelly inside; all are dipped in white or milk chocolate, peanut butter chocolate or dark chocolate.
“It’s no holds barred,” said Thornton. “We can do from simple to complex cake flavors. We color the white chocolate to go along with party themes.”
The Enchanting Delights duo regularly creates cake pops shaped like flowers, strawberries, butterflies, hearts, trees, stars, barnyard animals, bears, cats, dogs and margarita glasses. However, they will tackle any theme requested.
The craziest cake pops they created were in an Easter basket made out of sour punch straws for handles, grass-colored coconut shavings, with the pops themselves dyed multiple Easter colors to resemble prize eggs.
“We’ve created more than 1,000 cake pops,” said Thornton.
Daniel said she is “crazy about the brownie bites,” while Thornton can’t get enough of the key lime-flavored cake pops. Top-sellers are red velvet cake and chocolate. Unique flavors include bubble gum and cotton candy.
Both Daniel and Thornton work full-time jobs and juggle baking days at Kitchen Access, an incubator for small or startup culinary businesses. Daniel bakes Monday, Wednesday and Friday after work, while Thornton bakes after work Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
“Baking cakes is a generational thing for me,” said Daniel. “My grandmother and mother baked. My grandmother baked to bring money into the house. She taught me how to bake.”
She and Thornton hope to start selling their creations at the Chattanooga Market. Their sweet treats can also be ordered via phone at 402-0425.