Peacock Cake Topper

I absolutely love the colors on the tail of this peacock cake. Animal toppers are such a fun and in this case classy way to top off a cake! The rich blues and purples are the perfect compliment to the semi translucent shimmer of the gelatin this figure is made of.

 Would be the perfect way to top any number of cakes!!

 One more of the tail, just because it's so perty :)

Emoji Party Cake and Poop Cupcakes

It was so fun to finally make an emoji cake. I have been surprised that I haven't had a request for one yet! It was fun to make this one for my little girls friend, which was the perfect mix of sass and cute!

 She picked out the style and emoji for the top, her favorite little cool guy!

 The cake was a yummy lemon cake with whipped lemon curd buttercream, which I think is one of my favorite flavors, so bright and cheery in color and taste!

 To complete the party, they requested 2 dozen cute little Poop Emoji cupcakes, of course chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache frosting. I've got say, I've had plenty of requests for chocolate on chocolate cupcakes that I joked resembled poop, but I have now been able to say I made poop cupcakes intentionally! They were pretty cute!

Little Monster Party Feature

I was so excited to have my little guys 2nd birthday party featured on one of my favorite websites. I loved putting together this party, it was so fun and colorful for a summer party, and terribly fitting for my little man who loved to growl like a monster anytime he saw one! Check it out!!!

Little Monster Birthday Party

February 07, 2017                                                          

Monster madness has begun, so hurry, come along, and join in on all of the fun!

rafted by Tya Nelson of Padicakes, out of Salt Lake City, Utah, this Little Monster Birthday Party is packed with adorable party ideas; perfect for any little monster – boy or girl!

Monster details of ever kind can be found in this birthday bash, but these specific ones are sure to make you smile:

• Darling monster cake
• Fuzzy monster standees
• Colorful linens + table covers
• Cute monster cookies
• Monster boxes filled with partyware
• Monster mallow pops
• Fuzzy monster centerpieces

Vendors:
Invitation: PeachPops
Party Design, Desserts, Cake and Decorations: padicakes
Photography: Tiffani Linn Photography

Little Monster Birthday Party

Little Monster Party Details:

This is what Tya said about styling the party- “I knew exactly what kind of party I wanted to have for my little guy’s 2nd birthday almost as soon as his 1st passed. One of the first things he learned to “say” was to growl like a monster. He thought it was so funny to hear! I wanted to have a little monster party for him, but didn’t want it themed after the Disney themed Monsters. It was actually a lot harder than I expected to find non-Disney-Monster party items, so I ended making it all myself!

When guests arrived, the children were escorted to the side of our yard, to prepare to “become” monsters with our awsome face painters whom I had contacted a few weeks prior and given photos of the invites and types of monster faces I was looking for. They did a fabulous job transforming our little guests into little monsters!

From there, they were free to go enjoy our Little Monster photo booth, complete with props and word signs. It was so much fun watching the kids at that all night and the photos they took were adorable! They loved petting and posing with our life size fuzzy little monsters, that were so easy to make as well!

Our last station allowed them to adopt their own little monster to take home. Since most of our guests were going to be under the age of 10 I wanted it to be an easy (mess free) activity, so I made the monsters and their face accesories a few weeks in advance from brightly colored felt. All they had to do was to pick a blank stuffed monster, pick out eyes or eye, fangs, mouth or horns and then glue them on and let it dry.

From there, our little monsters played and dined on mini monster sliders, and a fun and colorful dessert table of Monster Marshmallow Pops, Orange Dreamsicle Monster-oons (macarons), decorated sugar cookies, Goober dipped pretzel sticks, Chocolate dipped sandwich cookies, Slimer Limer cupcakes and cake pops. I was especially happy with how the cute little monster cake turned out. I accented the cake and the dessert table with little fondant monsters hiding throughout.

One of the things I most loved about this party theme, since it was in June and outside was the opportunity it gave me to incorporate bright bold colors and textures into the decorating of the yard, from paper lanterns strung throughout to the balloons and fur fabric that i wrapped vases for the tables in. Despite it being a very windy and slightly cool day, all the colors still made it look fun and cheery”!

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Baby Elephant and Balloon Party

I knew when I bought those cute little elephant cookie cutters last summer, that one day out of the blue I would need them! And, viola! One day- was this weekend! Yippee! It was fun to put together this cute little set of items for the little man's Baby Elephant and Red Balloon 1st birthday party

 Started with baby elephant sugar cookies,

 and added some red ballon sugar cookie pops~

 all wrapped up to go!

what a fun pop of color in those gumballs!

and finished off with the sweet baby elephant smash cake! I love the colors with the blue, gray and pop of red to color it up! What a sweet little theme for a baby's first birthday!

 



Vintage Pooh Corner Baby's 1st Birthday

I was sooo excited to be asked to do the dessert table for this old fashioned Winnie the Pooh birthday party! I have always wanted to have a reason to do a bee cake or a Pooh party, so YAY!

 Who doesn't love a cute beehive cake! This cake was a honey French vanilla cake with a lemon and honey buttercream glaze, topped with royal icing bees EVERYWHERE! I made my bees with royal icing and my food writer edible markers mixed with Americolor black gel paste for a little shine.

 I loved how golden the cake came out of the mold. A mold which I, by the way-LOVE! I have used it many times and it is much easier to use than other beehive molds I've used in the past.

 Can you even have a honey beehive cake without honey cupcakes? These beauties were a lemon vanilla cupcake with a honey cream cheese frosting. I may or may not have eaten all of the remaining frosting from the bowl and my daughter may have licked it clean.

 these beautiful chocolate cupcakes with a marshmallow whipped frosting were done at the clients request and torched to resemble a beehive. I loved the texture and depth they gave to the whole ensemble of desserts with the lightly toasted color, and really- does anything smell better than chocolate and toasted marshmallow?

 When having a Pooh party- Tigger tails are a must! I always love seeing these at Disneyland, and had fun singing the "wonderful thing about tiggers" as I dipped and drizzled chocolate everywhere!

What a beautiful party set up!

Classic Navy & Gold Celebration

When asked to make a navy and gold themed cake and macarons for my sister's 20th birthday party, my first thought was "is it a nautical party?"

Well, this was much more fun to make than a cake with an anchor and ropes!

Always fun to make brightly colored macarons, especially in French Vanilla and Lemon flavors, mmmm; and what is better than a brush of gold on top!

I absolutely loved the rich tones of the navy flower and how the gold just made it pop!

I just couldn't get enough pictures! I loved the gold and blue!

I decided Navy and Gold were the perfect combo for a classy party dessert table!