Green Army Men {birthday party}

When our good friend Stephanie from Stephanie J Designs told us the theme for her son's birthday was going to be green army men we were super excited. We created a 3-D green army men jeep cake, chocolate cake pops, chocolate chip cupcakes, vanilla medallion sugar cookies, and we found green army men gummies and green apple jelly beans to top it off. Stephanie with the use of star medallion tags, fun names for the treats, coordinating place settings and burlap table cloths pulled the whole party together. The treats were placed down the center of the table, instead of on a separate dessert table, it made for an impressive party table for the kids to eat and play at. 



Super cool personalized camo canteens

  

invitations like no other by Stephanie J Designs

 

Stephanie came up with fun names for the treats, so chocolate cake pops became chocolate cake grenades.

 

treat bags customized with tags and more clever army references

 

bags filled with caramel popcorn were labeled cracker bullets

 

my favorite snack were the star medallion sugar cookies we made. They were labeled "atomic sugar cookies"



instead of the traditional candy bags, we filled large glass mason jars with green army men gummies labeled "infantry" and green apple jelly beans labels "shrapnel"

The centerpiece to the party was the green army jeep cake (yes that is cake!) It was placed on a cake drum covered in raw sugar sand

another angle of the jeep cake, it was over an inch of the stand, which is a custom made stand decorated with ribbon and paper. The sugar cookie were created to match all of the amazing papery created by Stephanie J Designs.

a picture of the table with all the snacks down the center and place settings complete with camo plates and a set of dog tags



another view of the full table design with camo cupcakes being guarded by green army men. We had placed several green army men along the table.

 

one last pic of the cake with the star candles lit.

The party was also featured on
Hostess with the Mostess
Kara's Party Ideas
Green Wedding Planner
Glam Canada
Stephanie J Designs

The tags, invites and treat bags can be purchased at Stephanie J Design's Esty store



Super Sweet 16 - Dessert Table

So when my niece celebrated her sweet 16th birthday I knew I had to give her the best cake ever. One problem, she is around the bakery and cake all the time, she has had almost every kind of cake we make and each year we make her cakes bigger and better. So this year we decided to make her a dessert table with a big variety of yummy treats sure to please everyone and most importantly her. We started with a very modern, graphic 2 tier cake and then took the color scheme and made matching cupcakes, mini cupcakes, sugar cookies, caramel covered pretzels, cake pops, and candy filled jars. I started with a color scheme of purple, black and white and then I threw in yellow and lime green. The horizontal black and white stripes are a fun background for the circle discs pressed with different textures. Those textured circles became the unifing theme for the dessert table. While I worked on the cake, Hector started to work on the cake pops and Rose started to make the sugar cookies, which we decided would also be on a stick.

I repeated the textured circle theme to decorate the wall behind the table. I took 12x12 pieces of scrapbook paper and cut various size circles out to be hung as the back drop. We added balloons to the sides and once all of the elements were on the table the finished look was nothing short of perfect!

The left side of the table...

In the back was grape flavored purple licorice whips, sour apple-o's, and giant jawbreakers. In the front was mini cupcakes (yellow cake with milk chocolate frosting), cookie pops decorated like whirly pops, an cupcakes topped with textured discs to match the cake and a pot of red velvet cake pops covered in white chocolate and purple and yellow drizzles.

The right side of the table...we repeated some of the treats for symmetry, but we did add banana laffy taffy, green sour candy and Hector's caramel dipped pretzels (knots and rods) with purple and yellow drizzle.

Details...and more details...

mini cupcakes with chocolate frosting and yellow sprinkles in purple papersclose up of the cake and the texture on the circles

Red velvet cake pops dipped in white chocolate and drizzled with purple and yellow and then arranged in a black pot with green ribbon curls caramel dipped pretzel rods and knots with matching purple and yellow drizzle sugar cookie pops decorated like lollipops vanilla cupcakes with matching yellow textured fondant circles, purple sprinkles and green polka dot papers there was even color matched soda, lima and pineapple Jarritos!

Ask Dr Bride!

We were honored to be asked by Dr. Bride herself to create yummy cookies for her launch party.

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So we created 2 styles of sugar cookies for the launch event. One was a hot pink and black pill and the other her very cool logo. See below for some step by step pictures and the finished products.

1. we have to size the cookie, make a template, then start rolling and cutting the dough.

2. next we print the edible images and cut each one to size. 3. then we must outline the baked cookies and flood them with yummy icing. 4. Once they are flooded we place on the edible image.

5. While the images were drying we finished flooding the pills and piped the Rx on each one. Those are now done and on to the last step of the logo cookies

6. We piped an icing border and then coated it with clear crystal sugar. (my favorite part)

These cookies were yummy and a big hit at the launch.

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