Jessie and Joe are getting married tomorrow!!! To celebrate, here is a review of the bridal shower that Kelly, Dad and I threw for Jessie out at in the St. Albans Villa in June. The theme was purple floral and Kelley, Dad and I created a feast!
Menu:
- Prosecco with fresh raspberries in the glass
- Chicken, Beans and Cheese Wraps
- Cheese Stuffed Peppers
- Chips and Salsa and Guacamole
- Chocolate and Red Velvet Cupcake Flowers (see instructions below)
- Confetti Cake Pops (see instructions below)
- Blue Bunny Wedding Cake Ice Cream
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| Dining Room Table |
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| Pretty Purple Flowers |
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| Basil Plant Party Favors |
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| Making Cake Pops |
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| Cake Pops in M&M filled vase |
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| Cupcake Flowers |
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| Cupcake Flowers |
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| Cupcake Flowers |
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| The Feast |
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| Buffet Line |
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| Diggin' In |
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| Yum! |
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| Party Girls |
It was a fun party!!! The Cupcake Flowers and the Cake Pops were a big hit! Here are the instructions on how I made them.
Cupcake Flowers:
- Bake mini cupcakes (any flavor you prefer)
- Put together green foam ball (found at craft store) in a flower pot, fastened by a glue gun
- Starting at the bottom, fasten cupcakes in a row around the foam, keep moving up rows until entire foam ball is covered. Fasten cupcakes by breaking a toothpick in half and use two halves of the toothpick per cupcake. Make sure on the bottomost rows to angle the cupcakes facing upwards on the toothpicks so they don't slide off.
- Once the entire foam ball is covered by cupcakes, put icing in an icing bag (I used a ziploc back with a small cut on the edge to squeeze the icing out). If you want colors, I added purple food dye to the vanilla icing.
- Voila! You have cupcake flowers!
Icing Pops:
- Bake cake in a pan (I used confetti cake mix)
- Once cake cools, crumble it with your hands so the entire cake is crumbs (this is the fun part!)
- Mix in can of icing with cake crumbles
- Roll icing/cake mixture into small inch-round balls and put in freezer over night
- Dip lollipop sticks (found at craft store) in icing and then poke into froze cake balls, let settle in
- Melt white chocolate morsels (or any other meltable candy coding) in a glass bowl over a pot of boiling water and dip cake pops in melted mixture
- Sprinkle right away and then set on parchment paper for coding to harden
- Keep cold in freezer or fridge until ready to serve
- Serve in vase filled with colorful M&Ms so lollipop sticks stay in place
- Enjoy! Careful, they are rich from all the icing!
Looking forward to the wedding tomorrow!!!
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