Jake's 8th B'day

Happy 8th Birthday to my son Jake! 

Being 8 years old, one of his favorite things are movies.  Ask for a movie party and you shall receive! 

My friend Shannon from SCRAP LIFT IT made these custom Movie Night invitations for me.  Shannon is SO FABULOUS... I just told her my theme and she made 8 of these for me! 

She has made all my kids' invites over the years, and she'll make some for you too!  Email her over at luckygirl1207@hotmail.com and get your order started! 

I designed Jake's entire party around her custom invitations....

These are the goodie bags I sent home with the kids.  Edible image cookies!  I chose three of Jake's favorite movies : Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Mall Cop.  There is one of each cookie in the bags. 

I wonder if these will make it all the way home?

Happy Birthday Buddy!

Off Road Jeep Cake

My friend's wife called me and asked us to make her husband's 30th birthday cake. She didn't really know exactly what she wanted the cake to look like and told me I could make whatever I wanted. Then she says "He REALLY likes his Jeep."

I had asked my business partner to do a quick drawing of a "Jeep" cake and a few minutes later I called her and told her that I had an idea... why don't we make a mountain scene with a road running up the cake? She said that was funny, that's exactly what she already drew!

Great minds think alike!

Dessert Table

We were invited to show off our goodies at one of the largest events in our area, "Girls Night Out". 650 tickets were available and they SOLD OUT prior the event.

We've added dessert tables as one of the things we offer and here's our very first one.

Since we were there to promote our business, Girly Gatherings, we designed this table around our company logo.

Everything on this table is homemade, and although we had reserves, we could barely keep it stocked, things were selling left and right!

Some of things on the table were:

white cupcakes with lemon filling

chocolate cupcakes with raspberry filling

cake bites - chocolate cake mixed with cream cheese and drizzled with pink chocolate

Parisian macarons with white chocolate ganache filling

wedding cake with a damask print

cookies handmade with our company logo iced on them

homemade marshmallow

carrot cake with orange ginger cream cheese filling

banana cake with Jack Daniels cream cheese filling

red velvet cake with white chocolate cream cheese filling

The event director emailed me the next morning and had this to say (!!)

"You guys were a huge hit last night. Everyone was talking about you. I took the banana cake back to my office and had to share it with 5 people. It was amazing! Not only did it look good it tasted incredible. Seriously one of the best cakes I have tasted. Way to go"

We had an absolute fabulous time and the entire event was a great success!

Macarons

We (Girly Gatherings) have been invited as a vendor for one of the biggest events in our area and we are just beyond estatic!

More to come, but here's a sneek peek.... I baked eight dozen sugar cookies and then another 140 of these macarons this weekend.  These little beauties will be sandwich'd with white chocolate ganache. 

If you know anything about macarons (the DIVA of french pastries)  it is an enormous feat for the home baker to get "feet" on them.

YAY!!! I got feet!