A Chocolate Embellishment for your Cupcake

Tiffany celebrated her 30th birthday in style with a Cupcakes + Cocktails party at a local boutique. When I saw her pictures, the chocolate T cupcake toppers immediately caught my eye! What a unique idea! Tiffany got her inspiration from here and has also provided us with a simple how-to. Read below for the details...

How to make the chocolate toppers as told by Tiffany...

I used Microsoft Word and dafont.com (to find a font I liked) to create a T. I then printed a page full of them. I melted chocolate chips and poured it into a piping bag with a very small icing tip. I then placed wax paper over my print out and traced the T's, while half hazardly filling them in. I should mention that I had a piece of cardboard below all of this so I could easily transport them to the freezer...then to the party so they didn't break. We placed them in the freezer for about 20 minutes and the peeled them right off the wax paper. We did have some of them break because they were thin, but we had made so many it didn't matter. I received the most compliments on these and they were super easy to do! You could virtually trace anything!

Pure Genius: Up Party Inspiration

I mean seriously! Could Bakerella be any more creative?! These are PERFECT for an Up party or you can serve them as dessert this Sunday while watching the Oscars!

Visit Bakerella for the EASY directions...

Party Box Design

I was so glad when Jessica from Party Box Design got in touch with me! Browsing through her products, I can see how talented she is and that she has an eye for design. I think great boy parties are hard to come by, so I was so excited to find her take on the construction theme. I'm a sucker for houndstooth!

You may have already seen the next few pictures floating around the blogosphere. They are from a cupcake inspired baby shower that Jessica helped plan for a grandmother-to-be (love that idea!).

Be sure to check out Jessica's website and blog for more party inspiration and to learn more about her products and event planning services!

Real Parties: Cupcakes & Cocktails

Without further ado, here are the pictures from the Cupcakes + Cocktails event I coordinated for great friends! It was so nice to have the opportunity to dive back into the professional party planning world, even if it was just for a short time.

As always, my friend Hayley Hardcastle came up with the perfect invitation for the soiree!

Since the bride is having her wedding in November, the colors of the party reflected the rich colors of fall...burgundy, pumpkin orange, gold & chocolate brown.

A Fare Extraordinare catered the event and the food was delicious! The focus of the evening, as you can imagine, was the cupcakes + cocktails station. AFE styled the area to perfection with the help of floral designer, Events in Bloom.

Cupcakes were displayed on stacked lucite boxes.

Three signature drinks were offered that evening and each had a special name that related to the bride and the wedding. The drink names were printed on swanky paper and displayed in a gorgeous frame.

To further help the ladies decide which drink they wanted to order, we had a tray with a mock up of each beverage.

The cupcake choices were also displayed on a menu for guests to read.

Mini grilled cheese sandwiches cut out in the shapes of hearts along with tomato basil soup shots were passed around to party guests.

Since this was a cupcake party, what better favors to offer guests than cupcake mixes elegantly packaged! Guests could choose whether they wanted to take home a chocolate or champagne mix. The brown satin ribbon indicated the chocolate and the gold ribbon indicated the champagne flavor.

Thank you Kristen, Cindy and Paige for asking me to help make this a memorable event! Hopefully we can come up with another party one day soon!

Angela Francis of Bella Smile Photography documented the evening.

More Cupcakes!

I know I have already featured two cupcake parties, but they seem to be all the rage these days.  Cute cupcake ideas keep popping up everywhere and my friend Nesie's party is too cute not to share.  The bright colors of the party put a smile on my face!

Polka dot cupcake bin and frame both from The Monogram Shop and made by mudpie.

Colorful bakery boxes are from Hobby Lobby.

Plush cupcake toy from Birthday Express.

Ice cream treat from Cold Stone Creamery

Cupcakes Galore!

Two of my good friends decided to throw cupcake parties for their little girls when they turned one.  This first party was put on by Libby for her little girl Townlin based on the book Pinkalicious.

The cutest door sign which can be found here.

Party guests signed the book Pinkalicious for the birthday girl.

Sweet Townlin enjoying her cake

Kuddos to Courtney for throwing an adorable "Favorite Things" party which of course included cupcakes and ice cream!

The cake!

An adorable arrangement made to look like an ice cream cone