Butterfly Themed Baby Shower

This weekend was my good friend's baby shower. I made the favors and two of my friends and I made the desserts for the dessert buffet. I made the chocolate covered strawberries, mini chocolate cupcakes and square cake balls. Here are a few pictures:

the favors had an assortment of Hershey Nuggets in them. I just used regular pink and purple paper. I cut the butterflies freehand and the flower was made from a punch.

I made mini chocolate cupcakes with Valhrona chocolate on top

square cake balls

Cake bites for a wedding

I decided to make cake bites for my friend's wedding reception (which was last weekend) since they're probably the easiest and cheapest thing when hundreds are needed. A week before the wedding I was told I only needed to make enough for 200 people, I was so relieved!! (Initially I thought I needed to make enough for 400-500 people)

I used my mini cookie scoop to make uniform pieces, then shaped them into squares. I made almost 400, which was only 4 boxes of cake mix.

I used candy melts instead of real chocolate so I didn't have to temper it. I was trying to make this as easy as possible for me. I'm pregnant in my first trimester and feeling quite crappy currently.

I used white candy melts to pipe on an "L" for their last name

To keep that trays from smashing down on the chocolates, i used these paper cups as spacers.

My nephews football themed, 1st birthday party

One of my nephews turned one yesterday!! we had a wonderful football/San Diego Chargers themed party.

i made the mini footballs from the cake ball recipe from Bakerella.

i left out the stripes on the edges of the football just to make it easier on myself. since i have trouble "drawing" with white chocolate, i just used white icing for the laces.

do you like our dessert table, table cloth? jane let us borrow this astro turf and gave us this idea (of making it look like part of a football field by using masking tape) which she used at her superbowl party this year.

3X3X2 box from Papermart filled with chocolate
football ribbon from Michaels

tiny smash cake for the birthday boy. i was pretty happy about this as this is only the 3rd cake i've decorated.

the green cupcakes are supposed to be a football on the football field. it doesn't look a good as i wanted. i've seen this type of cupcake before where it actually looks like grass. i don't have that particular tip, so i used a star shape instead.

i ordered the cupcakes with the Charger helmet on it from Ralphs grocery store.

cake bites

i made cake bites for my sister's graduation party. i made some round ones and some square ones. i've always wanted to make some petit fours but i haven't tried, they look intimidating, so i made flat squares instead of the balls. i bought the purple flowers from a cake decorating store. they were 10 for a dollar. i need to learn how to make those flowers too someday

more chocolate cake balls

my sister in law requested that i make the cake calls for my nephews birthday party yesterday. the theme was lady bugs so i tried to make the cupcake balls match the theme.i also made walnut caramel chocolates as well

chocolate cake balls

i found a site long ago (before it was advertised on Martha Stewart) that i just love!! Bakerella makes the cutest things on her site. i especially love the cupcake bites on her site. i decided to try to make them for a party yesterday. but they were falling apart so i just made balls instead. i'll have to try making the cupcake bites again sometime, because theses are the cutest things i've ever seen.

i didn't have cream cheese frosting on hand so i just mixed the cake with chocolate icing. and i dipped them in real chocolate, not chocolate bark so maybe that is why i had trouble dipping the cupcake shapes.

the small cake balls were dipped in milk chocolate, and the large cake balls were dipped in dark chocolate