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A Little Bit Of Heaven On A Stick: Getting The Jump On Lollicakes

Decadence on a stick! Local baker and artist Carol Price Volk has created a new way to  celebrate any event, bringing together the best of cake, lollipops and favorite flavors. Check out the new Lollicakes and prepare for taste bud euphoria!
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Decadence on a stick! Local baker and artist Carol Price Volk has created a new way to celebrate any event, bringing together the best of cake, lollipops and favorite flavors. Check out the new Lollicakes and prepare for taste bud euphoria!

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 With flavors including deep chocolate, vanilla, butter rum and the signature Vermont maple, there is something for everyone!
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With flavors including deep chocolate, vanilla, butter rum and the signature Vermont maple, there is something for everyone!

Tuesday October 1, 2013

By Cookie Steponaitis

Carol Price Volk has been making sweet things since she was a little girl. She would come home from school, find a recipe, make it and then would have to deal with her mom who came home to find the kitchen torn apart and every dish in the house used. Carol realized she had found a passion when she found out her best friend’s mom would eat cake for breakfast.  Carol remarked, “The rest was history. I found a willing victim.”
Carol convinced a bakery in New Jersey to hire her at age thirteen and was studying commercial baking while in high school. What followed was a wonderful series of opportunities including working at age seventeen for a French restaurant outside of New York making all their pastry and dessert under the guidance of a renowned chief. Carol, like many other transplanted Vermonters who come to the Green Mountain State with unique and diverse backgrounds continued baking as a sideline business. She specializes in wedding cakes and unique specialty cakes and her newest baking adventure is one of the most creative and tasty to date.
Carol explained her new dessert as follows. “A cake pop is basically a form of cake styled as a lollipop. Cake crumbs are mixed with icing or chocolate, and formed into small spheres or cubes then given a coating of icing or chocolate. I'm still experimenting with flavors but I've done vanilla, chocolate, chocolate peanut butter, strawberry and yes I have invented a maple flavor that I hope will become a signature Vermont" flavor.” Carol is starting off small since she works full time at another job and is best reached at [email protected]. Cake pops are great party favors as well as gifts or just a delicious easy treat to share. “I give away so many at this point that most days there is a display on my desk at work for our clients to take.” This reporter can attest to the sheer delectable taste waiting for your mouth and maple is but one decadent the way to go.


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