Winter Woodland Birthday Party

It was my daughter's 5th birthday and we decided to have a winter woodland themed party where Elsa would make a special appearance. You can see more more photos of Elsa at the party here.

It seems that no birthday is complete in my house without cake pops. I use my all time favourite recipe for these, lemon poppy seed sour cream cake. Maybe one day I will use a different receipe…maybe.  I then used the Wilton candy melts (do no overheat, it makes for a challenge to coat the cake pops).

One of the latest things that I just love to make are marshmallows.  I used Butter's famous marshmallow recipe and made 2 batches, vanilla and blackberry flavoured. I also decide to make rock candy which reminds me of ice, perfect for a winter themed party.

Lots of cupcakes, cookies and fruit covered the table.

Some snowflake sugar cookies (recipe from Butter Baked Goods) but as yummy as they were, I found the dough to be a bit crumbly to work with.  Some royal icing with crystal sugar and you have some lovely snowflakes.

Then I had to make some chocolate cupcakes with a hollowed out center which was then filled with Nutella and covered with icing…they were delicious. (recipe from Butter Baked Goods)

For decorations I painted twigs white, paper roses which I had all over the place.  Acorns, branch coasters and paper punched snowflakes worked nicely with the winter woodland theme.

Every little girl left with a pretty princess cup and some ribbon elastic hair ties. 

As an activity for the kids I try to do a craft.  I found these adorable castle like birdhouses which each of the girls got to decorate. They turned out so cute. 

And finally the birthday cake. I did not put Elsa on top of the cake, I really didn't feel that it went with everything else. My daughter has been collecting these little Mooska dolls and thought it was perfect. A few model train trees, blackberries and lots of icing we had a great cake.  This cake was a white layered cake with homemade strawberry jam and icing between the layers. I used the white cake recipe from Butter Baked Goods, it was so good. 

first birthday

We have one of those Little People Farms and my son enjoys playing with it, so it made for a perfect theme for his first party.

I made lemon poppy seed cupcakes with green grass icing and a farm animal pick to decorate it. Nice and simple.

I made bean bags for party favours with a few game ideas included. You can find how I made them here.

All in all it was a fun day for my baby as well as my 2 year old daughter. Now to start thinking about the next birthday party and what we will do.

a cupcake anyone?

My daughter is into making 'tea' these days and I thought a cupcake would be cute to go with it.  I made this out of felt that you would find at your local craft store...the inexpensive stuff.  I added some small beads for sprinkles and there you have a cute little cupcake. 

As  a note, since the cupcake has been played with for a bit now, the inexpensive felt does not wear well and gets fuzzy over time.

Hope you are having a good weekend.