The Miss Pink Pageant

The Miss Pink Pageant is a wonderful event celebrating incredible women who have battled breast cancer.  I was lucky enough to be asked to be a baking sponsor for them this year for their 5th annual pageant!  Find out more about this amazing event here: http://misspinkpageant.com/

I made 400 cake pops for the event.  They were SugarLove Event's vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream colored pink for this event.  Here are some pictures of them in the process and the finished product. Enjoy!

It took 10 batches of cake to make the 400 pops.  Here they are!  

Eek! Naked cake pops! :) This is what they look like rolled and with sticks, but no chocolate yet.

 

Ta Da! The finished product! 

 Reach out to me at sugarlovenh@gmail.com or at Facebook.com/SugarLoveEvents if you would like something made for your next event!

Carnival Party!

I recently baked for a Carnival themed first birthday party.  Here are the smash cake and cupcakes for the event!

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star First Birthday!

 Our little lady just turned 1 year old! 

We can't even believe it's already been a year.  Savannah is our first child (her brother will be here in July), and we've just learned SO much over the last 12 months.  She is our whole world, so we needed a party that really celebrated her.  I decided on a Twinkle Twinkle Little Star theme and wanted to make as much of it as I could.  I made her a smash cake, cupcakes, sparkly star cake toppers, cookie "wands" for her friends, and a tutu for her high chair. 

 I love all of the chalkboard signs for first birthdays.  They are so cute, personal and creative.  I wanted to make one for Savannah but had a few issues...

1. I've never practiced chalk board writing, so it would have looked like she wrote it herself.
2. We had just moved into our new house (less than 2 weeks before the party), so I was a little short on time.
3. I wanted to keep it after the party to remember it all, so I didn't know how I would manage that.

I found a great shop on Etsy (Sweet Cheekers Designs) that creates these for you, they send you the file, and you print it anywhere you want.  I had this made for Savannah and just printed it at Walmart.   It came out great!

 I made a tutu for Savannah's high chair (come on, you can't have a plain high chair for a princess party!).  I also got a plain wooden star from Michael's, painted it gold and got some letters to put her name on it.  The letters were the wrong color, so I painted them with nail polish.  It was so easy, and I already had the nail polish so it was cheaper than buying more paint for a small project.

Here's Savannah with her smash cake in her tutu chair! 

 This is the smash cake I made for Savannah. I just put some swirls over the crumb coat and used the toppers that I made for her cupcakes.  The toppers are just gold sparkly scrapbook paper that I cut with a cricut star thing from Michaels.  I put two stars back to back and stuck them with double sided tape to a toothpick.  They were perfect!