Delilah turned one back in January, and as most parents, we decided to throw her a wedding. Ok not really a wedding but pretty much. The guest list was over 100 people, we had it catered, there was linen tablecloths, centerpieces, scenery, you name it. It was a big deal. I pretty much handmade everything because the price of some stuff is just crazy! I wanted cardboard trees to line the walls to match the cardboard cutouts of Snow herself and those cute little dwarfs (which I got a pretty good deal on..about $30 each after shipping!) but the trees were another story COMPLETELY!! for a 5-6' tree it would have costed me like $75 for just ONE!! I know. Crazy right??!! So I made them myself and they came out to about $10-15 each. That's better. Same with floral arrangements. Boy are those pricey!! I wanted to make the swag bags special for each little boy and girl (about 24 kids) but I wanted something so specific that they would have cost me an arm and a leg (or actually my head since Delilah's dad was ready to kill me after going over the budget a thousand dollars or so :/) so I made those myself too. I just figured hey, if we're gonna do this, we're gonna do it right! Every little thing that my sister had labeled as "too much" for every one of my nephews parties, I finally got to do (she's quite the minimalist when it comes to parties now since she went so far on her son's first birthday that she served steak to 200 people to match the cowboy theme) and so I did them!! Every little detail was exactly how I had thought it would be since I made it all!! About two months worth of work actually. But I have yet to mention my baby of the party..no not my actual baby who just so happens to be the birthday girl, my baby the dessert table.
Now this was an all out bake festival. I pretty much put out all that, all that I knew, all that I learned, out on a table. It was crazy. Even for me. I was non-stop for at least three days before the big day sleeping zero hours, putting together the last minute details and trying to work on the table. There were hand-dip cookies, cheesecake shooters, red velvet cookies, lemon baby cakes, blueberry macaroons, apple cupcakes, mini muffins in three variations (blueberry, banana nut, and cinnamon streusel) strawberry shortcakes, dutch apple pie, stuffed croissant pastries, candy apples (my favorite ones ever! I bought these in downtown LA on a whim. They are the red kind that's a thick red that is soft and doesn't get hard ever and are covered in flakes! I have no idea what these flakes are or how to duplicate these but if anyone out there knows please post the recipe in the comments or send it to me privately so that I don't have to drive 30 miles in LA traffic to get my fix!! PLEASE!!) and finally, a candy corner where we had red vines out, cherry chewies, lemon heads, blueberry sixlets, and personalized lollis. Since this is the feature of todays post I will post pics but the photographer (Philip Alan of Philip Alan Photography. He is truly amazing and does it all!! If you're in the area I would definitely book him for anything, special events and portraits are his specialty and he definitely delivers! I wouldn't use anyone else ever!) was scheduled to arrive for the second half of the party so it is a little run down in the pics. Sorry. I do have one pre party pic though that I took myself on my phone so it's not the best quality but it works. So here is the dessert table...
Let's take a closer look at the cake...
This is a two tiered fondant cake, 8" round on top and 10" round on bottom for a grand total of 42 servings. The top is vanilla cake with strawberries and strawberry cream filling. The bottom tier is a marble cake with a vanilla mousse filling. both cakes are iced with buttercream, and covered with fondant. Decorated with fondant accents.
Here are the Madaline cookies dipped in white chocolate tinted blue and yellow with a red bow to tie it into the Snow White theme.
Here are the blueberry French macaroons filled with a marscapone and berry filling and lemon curd. The lemon cakelettes are lemon cake covered in a white chocolate-lemon coating. The red velvet cookies are frosted with cream cheese frosting and dusted with red candy sugar.
The muffins (already starting to be poked at) have wrappers to match their flavor and the theme of the party. Red=cinnamon streusel, blue=blueberry, yellow=banana.
Here are the apple cupcakes. They are vanilla cupcakes, frosted in american buttercream, rolled in red sugar and topped with a tootsie roll step and laffy taffy leaf.
And the candy corner...
Finally the cheesecake shooters. These are layered desserts with either apple or strawberry filling sandwiched between two layers of "cheesecake" all sitting on a graham cracker crust and topped with a dollop of whipped cream (now melted) and served with a little wooden spoon.
And there it is ladies and gentlemen! My first blog post ever! Hope you enjoyed reading a little bit about my adventure! You can visit my facebook page @ facebook.com/SweetTiersCakeDesign to see more of the cakes and desserts I've made or email me @ sweettierscakedesign@gmail.com to inquire about sweets you'd like for your own special occassion!!
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