I have an extra fun post to share today, my daughter Grace’s 8th birthday party! Two years ago, I put together a fun Candy Birthday Party for her… it was one of my first blog posts, and will always be a special party to me. We do “big” parties for our girls every other year (celebrating the “off” year with just one or two friends). Grace is a girl after my own heart, and chose a “Cake Decorating Party” as this year’s theme.
I prepared a small dessert and snack table for the girls to enjoy. Chocolate cupcakes in cute polka-dot treat cups (from Shop Sweet Lulu) were frosted with vanilla cream cheese frosting (using a large round tip) and dressed with simple sugarpaste flowers.
I also filled yellow treat cups with fresh fruit, and blue treat cups (both from Shop Sweet Lulu) with chex mix. A pretty little jar was filled with cute cupcake shaped marshmallows I found at Wal-Mart in the Easter candy section. A large jar was filled with containers of rainbow heart sprinkles which each guest took home as a favor.
I baked and (plainly) frosted mini cakes for each guest to decorate as they please. I baked the cakes in small (4″) pans and frosted them in either pink or purple vanilla buttercream. I prepared several piping bags of icing, with assorted tips, for the girls to use to decorate their cakes. I also supplied them with an assortment of candies, sprinkles and decorations to add to their masterpieces.
The girls decorated their cakes in shifts… while some were decorating cakes, the other girls were in the kitchen making mini pizzas with my husband. The pizza’s, along with the fresh fruit cups, chex mix and juice completed the simple, yet well received menu.
It was so fun to watch the girls work on their cakes…
I loved seeing all the finished cakes! Each one was so different, and showed a peek of their personalities as well =)
Along with a bottle of sprinkles (shown on the dessert/snack table), and the mini cakes themselves, each girl took home an apron that I made as a special favor. I made each one a bit different, using different color trimmings. I’ve posted the full tutorial for these Easy Sew Kid Aprons (here).
All set-up, styling and photos by (me) Glory Albin (Glorious Treats)
Additionally, I’ve include links within this post that will direct you to the recipes, techniques or supplies I’ve used.
Love this idea. My daughter is turning 8 this year and I think this would be a fun activity we could do for her party. Thanks for sharing.
This is one of the most adorable little girl parties I've seen! So beautifully planned to be hands-on and FUN. I would've loved to be a guest myself!
I'm late in reading my favorite blogs, but this was just incredible! You are the best mom ever! What a beautiful party and I LOVE the homemade aprons. As soon as I saw the first picture with the apron, I thought to myself, ooh I wonder where she got that cute apron and then saw more of them and read that you made them for each of Grace's friends! Incredible! I bet Grace loved her party and had so much fun making cakes with her friends. Everything looked beautiful and fun! Excellent job Glory and thanks for sharing!
Love this post, Glory! Your daughter & her friends look so sweet–and I LOVE the set-up and aprons!! My daughter and her friends decorated her b-day cake for her last birthday–so funny & fun. I'm going to have to step up my game next year though to match this CUTENESS!! lol ;0)
Hi Glory, You did it again. Another Amazing Birthday party. Thank you for sharing it with us. Looking forward to the apron tutorial. By the way, where did you get the yellow and the blue cupcake stand??
AL in Calif
This is one of the sweetest, most wholesome, most adorable-ist parties I have even seen for little girls. Bravo, you fabulous mom.
— Janienne Jennrich, Topic Editor for Kids and Teen Parties at Suite101.com
You are such a great Mom! Your attention to detail is astounding. Yay for you and your girls!
LOVE this! What mini geniuses.
I've been following your blog for several months and it's become a favorite, I think because everything you do is so ME as well! I've never left a comment before, but when I saw your table with four chairs and a bench that is exactly like the one in my kitchen, I just couldn't resist! I especially enjoy your beautiful photography, sweet and simple (well "simpler" anyway!) parties and great decorating/packaging ideas. Also, I use your recipe for chocolate cupcakes all the time. Thank you so much!!
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