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| A chocolate cake filled with strawberry Italian Meringue Buttercream and covered in Chocolate Ganache dusted in green, brown and gold dust |
Oh dear, here is one cake that I didn't get around to share with you all from last May - A Mad Hatter Hat Cake with a modeling chocolate figurine of the birthday girl.
Last May we made the 6 hour drive to San Jose to spend Easter with my cousin and to also help with her daughter's 10th birthday party. It was the cutest Mad Hatter Tea Party.
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| the girls huddled in front of the cake while eating some treats =) |
This was the 3rd Mad Hatter Hat Cake that I've made and if you would like to see them, check out my previous blog posts here:
We also made a bunch of decorations to top the cupcakes with...
- Stacked teacups which I later filled with chocolate ganache
- Mad Hatter Hats with her birthdate
- Clocks with her birth time
- Eat-Me tags
- Ribbon Roses
- Clubs, Clovers, Hearts and Spades
- Butterflies
The chocolate cupcakes were frosted with a swirl of purple and pink Italian Meringue Buttercream and topped with an assortment of decorations.
We also made cake pops and skewers of fruit and placed them in tall vases stuffed with colorful tissue paper.
My cousin did an awesome job with the table setting: A couple unique tea pots and a different teacup for each setting - not one of them looked like another...it was perfect for the theme. She also found some really colorful and bold plates, cups, napkins and little trinkets to make for a super colorful and perfect tea party. I went overboard tying a bow onto anything that could hold a bow (I loved the red/black/white printed ribbon) - it's even up around the windows and wall décor too =)
She even setup a table for the little ones.
The doily trimming around the cake stand is a paper border that my cousin had bought a while back. It came precut and folded up inside a little packet by Martha Stewart. I attached it to the side of the cake stand with some double sided tape. I loved how it dressed up the stand - so simple too.
We had all hands were on deck from family and friends in putting this together and it turned out quite lovely. An incredibly beautiful birthday for an incredibly beautiful girl.
We also made a bunch of decorations to top the cupcakes with...
- Stacked teacups which I later filled with chocolate ganache
- Mad Hatter Hats with her birthdate
- Clocks with her birth time
- Eat-Me tags
- Ribbon Roses
- Clubs, Clovers, Hearts and Spades
- Butterflies
The chocolate cupcakes were frosted with a swirl of purple and pink Italian Meringue Buttercream and topped with an assortment of decorations.
We also made cake pops and skewers of fruit and placed them in tall vases stuffed with colorful tissue paper.
My cousin did an awesome job with the table setting: A couple unique tea pots and a different teacup for each setting - not one of them looked like another...it was perfect for the theme. She also found some really colorful and bold plates, cups, napkins and little trinkets to make for a super colorful and perfect tea party. I went overboard tying a bow onto anything that could hold a bow (I loved the red/black/white printed ribbon) - it's even up around the windows and wall décor too =)
She even setup a table for the little ones.
The doily trimming around the cake stand is a paper border that my cousin had bought a while back. It came precut and folded up inside a little packet by Martha Stewart. I attached it to the side of the cake stand with some double sided tape. I loved how it dressed up the stand - so simple too.
We had all hands were on deck from family and friends in putting this together and it turned out quite lovely. An incredibly beautiful birthday for an incredibly beautiful girl.