Rainbow Paint Party

Children's birthday parties are not what they used to be. With the invention of Etsy, kids's parties today are practically on steroids. A birthday party is not just about picking a theme and having matching plates and table covers...maybe a pinata....now it is all about dessert tables, craft tables and beyond!

For my cousin she lucked out. Her two daughters both have September birthdays. So it makes it a little easier to plan an all out birthday party extravaganza and she only has to do it once. This year they were celebrating 4 and 2. The theme was Rainbow Paint Party and she went - ALL OUT. 

Mom and Dad with the birthday girls

All about the detail! Adorable dessert table to go with the paint party theme. There were cookies, cupcakes, cake pops and chocolate dipped rice krispy treats made by - your's truly as well as an ice cream dessert bar. 

Rainbow Cupcake Dessert Palette 

The cupcake display was just too cute! A paint palette with the cupcakes as the "paint" - who's ready to get creative?!

Birthday Girl Ruby turning 2 

Birthday girl Addison turning 4

I think the birthday girls like it...

mmmmm....cupcake...

Paint palette cookies

Here is a little closer look at the paint palette cookies I made! These were absolutely adorable and fun to make. Really easy too. The hardest part was making up all the "paint" colors. I had about 8 different piping bags full of frosting and I only messed up on the colors twice! Should have just went with my gut instinct to begin with.

Rainbow paint palette cookies

Rainbow cupcakes

Dont you just want to lick the frosting? You know you want to...These cupcakes are using my favorite homemade vanilla cupcake recipe...well actually it is a recipe for "funfetti" I just skipped out on the sprinkles but it probably would have been perfect for the them now that I think about it...

More rainbow cupcakes

Here is a few more cupcakes to drool over! I know I mentioned I made other desserts like the cake pops and the chocolate dipped rice krispy treats...I forgot to take a close up picture of them...I get lazy... If you have never had a rice krispy dipped in chocolate...you are missing out my friend. I just had one for the first time and I thought I died and went to heaven!! 

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Feel free to email me for information on a custom dessert for your next party!

Kids Birthday Themes: Preppy Tennis Star & Happy Feet

When I was little I remember I had so much fun coming up with my birthday theme every year. Of course since my birthday falls during the driest week of the year in Seattle, I always had DQ ice cream cakes for the most part. I remember one year I did a rainbow themed and had a pinata (sp?), of course again because it was so hot it would be a pool party with all my friends. 

Usually the theme was what ever I was currently obsessed with. And kids today haven't changed. I recently did cookies for 2 kiddos. One was having a Penguin themed birthday. I guessed that this was something they were learning about in school of maybe he really liked all the penguin cartoon movies that have come out recently like Happy Feet. The answer, was a little bit of both. 

March of the penguins

Mr. Popper's Penguin

Happy Feet

The next cookie design was for a preppy tennis star who just turned 7! Originally the design was to do tennis rackets, but unfortunately that cutter is hard to come by in a pinch. So we opted to do pink and green bright tennis balls. The cookies themselves are obviously a simple design so I knew I needed to spice these ones up a little bit....but how??

Sparkly Tennis Balls

The answer was GLITTER! Every girl loves glitter and kids love sprinkles! To make the 7 I used Wilton vanilla (white & green colored) melts. Which I have on had for cake pops from the Super Bowl. 

Pink Sparkly Tennis Balls

To create the 7, I just "flowed" the chocolate using a piping bag and a wilton chocolate piping set, and drizzled it on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper. I then sprinkled the pink and white disco dust over the sevens and popped them in the refrigerator for maybe 5 minutes it that. 

Green Sparkly 7 Tennis Balls

Once they were down I very carefully peeled them off and they popped off pretty easily in fact. I didn't even break 1! And then I gently placed them in the middle of the cookie and pressed down on it so it would sink into the frosting more.

Glitter Tennis Balls

The feedback I got from both moms was great and I am so happy the kiddos liked the cookies for their special day!