Tiffany Theme Dessert Table

This past weekend, we threw a surprise party for my mother's 50th birthday. We decided to go with a tiffany theme cake and dessert table and base the table decor on the tiffany blue color. We used a matching tiffany blue table cloth and based the table around the center Tiffany box cake. Behind the cake we used a tiffany bag as a holder for some branches that we hung tiffany blue stones from. Two cupcake liner topiary trees we made were placed on both ends of the table with a sign on each that read "50 & Fabulous...Happy Birthday."
We made a personalized happy birthday banner to match the colors and hung it from the front of the table. We added blue candy such as sixlets, vanilla tootsie rolls, rock candy and gum balls around the table in different jars as well as some vanilla meringue cookies and sugar cookies.
We then scattered the favors around the table. The favors were tiffany blue boxes with hershey kisses inside and decorated with white ribbon and a personalized label. The boxes were purchaed at http://www.beforetheidos.com/Tiffany_Blue_Favor_Box_Set_of_10_p/ee-tblbox.htm
The table was a big hit at the party and my mom loved it! :)

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Tiffany Box Cake

Customized topiary trees  and matching decor

Favors-Tiffany blue favor boxes filled with hershey kisses and personalized label added

SPRINKLED THEMED BABY SHOWER

We were asked to do a cake and dessert table for my partners close friend who was having her second baby very soon. This sprinkle shower was new to me but I loved the idea of basing the decorations on the key dessert decoration....SPRINKLES!!!

The table started with a candy stripe tablecloth and we worked all the desserts around those colors. The cake featured matching circles and butterflies. We hung colored cardstock circles from wire ribbon on white birch branches placed in a vase filled with sprinkles. We then centered all the other desserts around it. We added pink marshmallows, sprinkled donuts, marshmallow pops, pretzels sticks, cookies and cupcakes all decorated with what else but SPRINKLES!

"Sprinkled With Love"

White boxes were sprayed with glue and then dipped in sprinkles. Fake flowers were added to create a beautiful sprinkle flower centerpiece.

Cake was a 6" and 8" two tiered cake. Top tier was red velvet with cream cheese frosting and bottom was vanilla with oreo cookies buttercream,

Cake push up pops are the new craze!! I placed 3 mini cupcakes topped with buttercream and sprinkles placed in plastic push up pop containers. LOVE THESE!!

Jungle Themed Baby Shower Cupcake Favors

I was asked to make cupcake favors for a young lady's baby shower. They were sick of the tired and old knick knack given as favors in the past that most of the time get trashed or collect dust on a shelf somewhere. What better favor to give then something delicious to eat and sweet to look at! The theme was Jungle Safari so I set out to look for pictures of jungle animal shaped cupcakes. Many of the pictures I found were done with fondant covered cupcakes shaped into animal faces. As cute as they were my only hesitancy was about the taste. As someone who LOVES cupcakes I worried about how the cupcake would taste without the best part....FROSTING! So I decided to dip the tops in chocolate ganache and frost with homemade buttercream. I then created the animal faces with fondant on circle discs. This way you can remove the disc before eating as many people don't like the taste of fondant and still have a delicious frosted cupcake to enjoy! They were a big hit and came out just as cute as all the others I saw online.

monkey cupcake

elephant cupcake

giraffe cupcake

lion cupcake


Boxed in clear cube and personalized label with ribbon

ALICE IN WONDERLAND CAKE

Here are some pictures of the Alice in Wonderland themed first birthday cake I was asked to make for a special little girl. The mom wanted the topsy turvy look which goes with the whole feel of the wonderland theme. I searched online looking for pictures of cakes and found Pink Cake Box's version to be my favorite.
http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/alice-in-wonderland-topsy-turvy-cake-2010-02-24.htm

I think I did a pretty good job of duplicating it. I made the tea cup and saucer out of rice crispy treats t help me keep the shape. Everything else was done in fondant.