Pink Rosette Cake for Aryana

 I made this cake for my sweet neighbor Aryana.  She is turning 2!

I have a hard time looking close at this.  It was hard having each layer a different color and trying to get each Rosette even to cover the empty spaces.  It was fun practicing.  I don't know how other people do this, probably lots of practice and/or more skill!

 I made this little banner to distract from the imperfections.  I used washi tape for the tags and some pinwheels that attach to straws (Hobby Lobby.)

How adorable is she and her cute birthday outfit that just so happens to match the cake perfectly!  It wasn't even planned! Happy Birthday Aryana!

Elmo Party for Lola

 I made this for my sweet neighbor Lola who is turning 2. We tried to add as much pink as possible.

 I used the same platter for Lucy's Hello Kitty cake.  I added a tutu to the bottom of my round cake board and set it on a big soup can wrapped in white paper.
The Elmo cake is chocolate with cream cheese frosting and the mini cupcakes are vanilla with cream cheese frosting.  To decorate the Elmo I just copied the instructions on the cake pan although I had a hard time getting the nose and eyes to look smooth.  I did use the grass/hair tip for his fur instead of a star tip which was so much easier.

 I made a few of these Elmo cupcake toppers to add to some of the mini cupcakes.

 I found the Happy Birthday Elmo images from the Haath Se website.  I used a 1" hole punch to cut them out then backed them with some flower images I cut from my Cricut.  I glued them to a sucker stick and added some pink Baker's Twine.

 I had to include some pics of the party decor.  This makes me want to sing the song...

Take Home Bags

 I love the tag!

This is Lola and her adorable Elmo birthday outfit.  So sweet!  Happy Birthday Lola!

Do you want to build a Snowman?

 It was Wyatt's turn to bring the snack today and this is what we decided to do.  Ethan's class loved the snowman kits last year and it's so easy and cute!

 I got the tag here from the purple pumpkin blog.

 The 4x9 cellophane bags fit this tag perfect.

 We used pretzels for arms, marshmallows for the body and feet (regular and mini sized,) raisins for his buttons and eyes (chocolate chips would be yummy too but we needed this to be more healthy,) and orange tic tacs for his nose.

It's A Girl!

 I had the privilege of making these for Tacie's baby shower.  I used my go to recipe:
Sugar Cookies:

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

1 cup butter (creamed)

1 cup sour cream

Combine & beat until creamy. Add 6 1/2 cups flour and 2 tsp. baking soda, and 1 tsp. salt. Mix well. Roll out on floured counter 1/2 inch thick. Or place between sheets of parchment paper roll out, freeze for 20 minutes, then cut shapes out and put on cookie sheet. (This method will keep you from having to use so much flour which makes your cookies taste like flour :)   Bake for 10 min. @ 350.

 It was fun decorating these for a girl shower this time.  I found some really fun designs online that I copied.

Pink Baby Bottles

Onesie's

Baby Bibs

 I got so giddy when I saw this beautiful set up that Joy did.  I wish I could take credit for some of it. My cookies are just an after thought to this fun table which I'm totally okay with. Hopefully you won't mind all the pics but I was in love and want to remember this.

 Look at this adorable diaper cake!

 I also really loved her table cloth and runner.

 This was the biggest veggie tray basket I have ever seen.  I actually can take credit for the celery and radishes on this tray. =)

Beautiful wreath

 Love the lanterns! Oh and there are some cookies, blah, blah, next...

Baby Carriage fruit tray

Take home treats: party mints in boxes and thank you suckers!

 She made these wreaths for the front door! Loved it all!

Happy 4th Birthday Lucy!

Today is Lucy's 4th birthday. 

Lucy loves Hello Kitty more than she loves pink but you add them together and you have the happiest 4 year old ever!

 I found the Hello Kitty cake mold at Hobby Lobby.  She wanted a strawberry cake(Duncan Hines) with cream cheese frosting:

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup butter softened

1 tsp. vanilla

4 cups powdered sugar.
I copied the instructions on the mold.  It was easy just took some time to do all those darn white stars.  I even used a bigger star tip than they suggested (21.)

 In her eyes it turned out perfect, mine not so much!

 She wanted to make sure her Hello Kitty stuffed animal made it to the party. ;)

 We couldn't decide if we should do rice crispy treats or cookies so we did both.

 I used the regular rice crispy treat recipe but added vanilla and a few more marshmallows:

• 3 tablespoons butter 
• 1 package (10 oz., about 40) JET-PUFFED Marshmallows 
• OR 
• 4 cups (I add close to 5 cups) JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows 
• 6 cups Kellogg's® Rice Krispies® cereal
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• In microwave-safe bowl heat butter and marshmallows on HIGH for 1 minute.  . Stir until smooth. May need a little more time but I like it when the marshmallows aren't all the way melted. Add vanilla. Stir. Add cereal, stir.  You could add your extra marshmallows here to if desired. Spread in buttered 9x13 pan.
• I found a Hello Kitty cookie cutter at Wal-Mart that I used to cut the shapes out with. It was a little more difficult than the cookie to decorate since the crispies aren't flat but hopefully they still look like Hello Kitty.

 These turned out to be Lucy's favorite so she decided we should make these for her preschool class too!

 Sugar Cookies:

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

1 cup butter (creamed)

1 cup sour cream

Combine & beat until creamy. Add 6 1/2 cups flour and 2 tsp. baking soda, and 1 tsp. salt. Mix well. Roll out on floured counter 1/2 inch thick. Or place between sheets of parchment paper roll out, freeze for 20 minutes, then cut shapes out and put on cookie sheet. (This method will keep you from having to use so much flour which makes your cookies taste like flour :)   Bake for 10 min. @ 350.

 Anna and Tacie helped me decorate these.  I love doing treats with friends!

 Lucy wanted Hello Kitty fruit snacks to share with her friends too.

 Here are the take home bags we did. We found most of these things in the Target dollar spot.  The Ring Pops and Bracelets are at Wal-Mart.

This was a fun memory for me.  Since we didn't have 8 of everything here we had to mix and match some things and Lucy had so much fun picking out what she thought each friend would like.  It was adorable watching her put them together and then hand them out to her special friends.  She is so sweet! 

Happy Birthday my little Hello Kitty Princess! (That is what she likes us to call her lately.  She is not just Daddy's princess but his Hello Kitty Princess.)