Ice Cream Inspired Cake Pops

Here are some Ice Cream Cone inspired Cake Pops that I did for a Ice Cream Dessert Table.

Operation Shower

I had to share this dessert table I came across not only because it involves my most favorite theme, Zoo Animals, but also because it is for an absolutely amazing cause! Operation Shower, which can been found here, http://operationshower.org/, is a non-profit company that throws baby showers for military families. What can be more amazing then that? What a wonderful company with such an amazing cause! If you would like to help out, on their website there is a section where you can donate time, money or products to them. Here is the photographers' Facebook page where you can check out more pictures from the shower, http://www.facebook.com/jackieculmerphotography?sk=wall.

Ice Cream Party Dessert Table Finale!

Well this weekend was my niece's 8th Birthday party and we celebrated it with tons of ice cream, a huge bounce house and good friends and family! Everything to do with the dessert table turned out better then expected and everyone love it! I was very happy that it was so successful and look forward to the next dessert table I get to plan, Any takers? I do get to create some cake pops for my nephews 2nd Birthday party this upcoming weekend where the theme is going to be creamsicle or 50-50 bar inspiration. So I am of course going to do an orange coating and my sister-in-law would like me to do white sprinkles. I think I might actually try to make a couple look like creamsicle bars but who knows if that will work! Here are some pictures from my niece's birthday! Enjoy!

Ice Cream Cone Cake Pops!

As I said before my wonderful Sister-in-law bought me Bakerella's Cake Pop book and I decided to try my hand at the Ice Cream Cone Cake Pops for my niece's birthday party and I must admit I did a pretty good job! I thought, based on last times attempt, that it was going to be super hard and disappointing. However I was wrong! It worked out perfectly because I didn't need to use the sticks (which was the main difficulty the first time) and the cake ball itself rested perfectly on top of the sugar cone! They are perfect for the party and I could not be any happier with the end result! Check them out!

Cookies, Ice Cream & Cupcakes Oh My!

My Mother-in-law and Sister-in-law make amazing custom cookies and decorated them perfectly! I have always told them they should start up a business because I think they could make pretty good side money making them but they always say it is just for fun AND it is a lot of work for just a side job! I asked them to make some ice cream cone cookies for my nieces birthday party because I knew they would look super cute on the dessert table. I then decided that it would be an even better idea to have them as favors on the dessert table instead. I think my nieces Mother is also planning on doing dollar gift certificates to Baskin Robbins as favors too which we will wrap up with the cookies! Here is a picture of the adorable ice cream cone cookies.

Perfect colors for the party!

I just added a bag and a cute label!

Today I did some major shopping for all the goodies for the dessert table with the help of my younger niece and nephew! I was very surprised to see how cheap everything so far has been, thanks to Target!

Ice Cream Party Dessert Table Inspiration

If you have been reading my blog you would know that I have been asked to create an Ice Cream dessert table for my niece's 8th birthday party! I am very excited and can't wait to put my touches on her party! I searched and searched for the perfect image that would spark my inspiration for her dessert table and I think I found it!

What do you think?

This image is perfect because it has a little bit of a tropical theme to it with the little umbrella and bamboo chopsticks popping out of it (her bounce house is a tropical theme). I plan on pulling the colors from this image: pinks, greens and oranges(as well as the image itself) to create topping labels, toppers, gift tags and maybe even a banner, we will see if I have enough time!

I also plan on, of course, having MORE then just ice cream. I mean the Birthday girls' favorite thing is ice cream, but the guests might enjoy something else! Which is why I am going to do some mini cupcakes that look like ice cream cones along with some sugar cookies in the shape of ice cream cones. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law make adorable decorated sugar cookies that look professionaly made that would work perfectly for my niece's birthday event! I also want to attempt to make ice cream cone cake balls as well!
Here are some pictures that I will be using for inspiration!

 Cake Ball Ice Cream Cones

 Ice Cream Cupcakes (But I will not be putting them on cones)

Ice Cream Sugar Cookies

July 4th 2011

Well the 4th has come and gone and I must admit it was extra patriotic with my dessert table all set up! The parade was more fun then usual, the company was great and the food was to die for! Unfortunately, the hubby's bike was stolen while we stopped at a friends house for some libations. Other then that, is was a great day! Here are some pictures!

 Luscious Licorice

 Red Velvet Cake Balls

 Red White & Blue Cupcakes

 Up close

 Patriotic Cake Pops

 Ice Cold Ice Cream Bars

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Ice Cream Party Dessert Table

I am so excited to be asked to design and create a dessert table for my lovely niece, Riley, who will be turning 8 years old in a few weeks! She absolutely LOVES ice cream and wanted to have her birthday at Frog's Bounce House, however they do not allow ice cream, for multiple reasons. Therefore, they decided to have the bounce houses come to them, which means she will get her ice cream too!

I want to create a make your own sundae dessert table that will consist of multiple favors of ice cream along with massive amounts of toppings! I better start shopping for more ideas! Pictures coming soon!

More 4th Of July Favorite Finds.....

So now that I am into crafty & yummy things this year I have been finding so many cute ideas for 4th of July dessert tables. I was planning on just doing cupcakes BUT I think now I might make a mini dessert table for the 4th! Here are some more finds that I will incorporate into my mini 4th of July dessert table!

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Garden Themed Dessert Table

Well last weekend we celebrated Father's Day along with my Mom's 64th Birthday. We BBQ'd for the Fathers and I created a Garden themed dessert table for my Mom! Overall I was very pleased with my first dessert table! It turned out really cute and definitely was one of the highlights of the weekend! I cant wait to make another dessert table for someone special, but until then, I will continue collecting fun and unique ideas for everything DESSERT! Here are some photos of the dessert table!

 Garden Cupcakes

 Chocolate Covered Pretzel Herbs

 Flower Garden Marshmallows

 Jelly Bean Seeds

 Sunflower cake pops

 The signs

 Decor

The whole table (My mom refused to take down the shell wreath, oh well!)

Garden Themed Dessert Table Decor

I wanted to draw the most attention to my table by adding embellishments and decor. I recently tried Martha Stewart's pom poms and I loved the outcome so I decided to throw them into the mix. I wanted to stay within the neutral garden colors such as greens, browns and maybe some tarnish silver because it was for my Mother's 64th birthday, if this particular theme was for a child or younger adult I would have added lots of bright colors to it. I also wanted to create a couple signs saying "Happy Birthday" and "Sweets". I found some burlap at Joanne's on sale for $2.99 a yard which was more then enough. I decided to cut triangle shaped flags and then painted letters on each spelling out "Happy Birthday" and "Sweets". I then hot glue gunned each letter to a brown string and TA DA a homemade burlap sign! I think it goes really well with the whole garden theme. I had tons of burlap left so I think I will use some to make toppers with (which I will have to do a post about) and the rest will be used as table cloth under my dessert table. I went to Michael's yesterday and they have a ton of garden items on sale that would be great to add to the decor of the table but nothing jumped out at me! I think I might go to Joanne's tonight to see if they have anything that I like.

 Finished product!

Close up!

Chocolate Pretzel Vines....or Herbs?

After deciding on a cute garden patch for the cupcakes and sunflower cake pops blooming from flower pots I knew I needed more tasty treats to decorate my Mom's dessert table with! I knew I wanted to incorporate chocolate covered pretzel sticks into the mix but I was not sure how I was going to relate them to the garden theme. Then it hit me! Vines! I could do green chocolate covered pretzel sticks and then cover them in green sprinkles to make cute little vines! Then I thought what was I going to stick them in to stand straight up so that they can be plucked and gobbled up quickly? Then I had an ah-ha moment when I was at Walmart picking up items for the cake pops. I saw these adorable herb pots that were pretty cheap and already labeled. I didn't buy any because I like to focus on one treat at a time but now that I am focusing on the pretzels I think I am going to go back and buy them today! They would add so much to the overall look of the table plus I think the green chocolate covered pretzel sticks would look so cute popping out of the herb pots. So I guess instead of vines they will be herbs, which is perfect because I think they will look more like herbs instead of vines anyways!

The great thing about the flower pots and herb pots is I will be able to re-use them for actual gardening or for a future dessert table!

Now I need to worry about how I am going to get them to stand up in the herb pot. The cake pops were easy because the stick can get stuck straight into the foam but no one wants to eat a pretzel that has been stuck in foam.

~UPDATE~

So I went and bought the Herb pots and today Stella, Ollie and I made the chocolate covered pretzel sticks. I bought a large bag of chocolate animal crackers because they were SOOOO much cheaper then oreos and crushed them up to make dirt to go inside of the pots. I will also be using the "dirt" for the top of the garden cupcakes (but it will be much finer). Here is the finished product.....

I LOVE it!!!

Cake Pops are Popping Up!

If you haven't heard about cake pops yet...where in the world have you been?! Ever since Starbucks introduced their cake pops people have been raving about them. Therefore I thought, what is a dessert table without cake pops? So I went to bakerella to find out how to make them, they seemed easy enough, however recently I have discovered a company, thebabycakesshop.com that has a product that makes them without all the hard work! So I bought one, of course! I got it in the mail today and I made donuts right away. Why donuts you ask? Well, I didn't have all the ingredients for cake and to tell you the truth I am leaving tomorrow morning for Vegas and I didn't want to have tons of cake pops sitting around for the kids, I mean cats, to eat! So I made a small batch of donuts to try out the product and it worked magically! I love it to say the least!

 The cute purple cake pop maker!

 Some over-flow but perfectly round donut holes!

Sugar & cinnamon goodness!

Getting back to why I bought this awesome product. I thought that cake pops would be a perfect treat to add to my Mom's dessert table. I am planning on making the cake pops to look like sunflowers, which is her favorite flower. I wanted to go a step further to make the cake pops look like they are in flower pots. So I bought 2 ceramic pots from Walmart (only .84 cents each) along with some fake moss ($2.50) and green floral foam ($2.00). I stuffed each pot with the floral foam and then hot glue gunned the green moss on top of the foam to make it look like grass in a flower pot. After making each cake pop I will place around 5 or 6 in each pot to look like blooming sunflowers! I am really excited to see how it turns out but so far I can just show you the pots! I plan on making some sort of sign on each pot that says something along the lines of, "sunflowers" or "pick me".

 Side view of the pots

 Top view of the grassy pots

Materials used...

So for around $1.50 for each pot I think it makes for a cute embellishment to go towards my Mom's dessert table! I cant wait to see the finish product!