The day of the shower was beautiful. Sunny, breezy, warm. And the morning of the shower, my parents and I ran around finishing all of the last minute details for the shower. Starting with these:
Inspired in part by Pioneer Woman’s “Springy Flower Pot Desserts” and by Bakerella’s infamous “Cake Pops,” I combined the two into these adorable little desserts. I spent the evening before the shower making the bumblebee cake pops.
I simply followed Bakerella’s instructions to make cake pops… and then dipped them in yellow melting candy, added chocolate chips to one end for their stingers, brown candy coated sprinkle chips for the eyes and painted on their stripes and smiles with a toothpick dipped in melted chocolate candy.
Aren’t they cute??
Then my mom and I made these:
Using the smallest sized terra cotta pots we found at Hobby Lobby, we made this ice cream desserts. We placed a vanilla wafer in the bottom, spooned some softened vanilla ice cream into the dish around a plastic straw and covered the top with crumbled oreos (which, with the filling left in the mix, really looks like potting soil!). We froze them like this overnight and the morning of the shower, we wrapped them in bright red and green napkins and tied with a black ribbon. (the wedding colors!)
The napkins kept everyone’s fingers from freezing and made the flower pots look like they were wrapped as gifts from the floral department!
We placed cut, artificial flowers and the bumblebee cake pops into the straw immediately before serving.
And the bride (and everyone else!) loved them.
The bumblebees were pretty time consuming, so I used the rest of my cake balls to make these:
Again, I used wedding colors… and had one of the bridesmaids ask if I sold desserts as a business! I answered, no, but Bakerella should! (have to give credit for genius ideas where credit is due)
We even sent everyone home with a cupcake bite…
…in their own mini-cake boxes!
Mom’s digital craft cutter was responsible for these wedge shaped boxes-
And the adorable decoration they created when arranged into a layer cake! (Notice that one layer is “vanilla” and the other is “chocolate”!)
As if we didn’t already have enough sweets, we also served some lime bars, heart-shaped elephant ears, and HAMBURGER cookies (vanilla wafers, thin mints, red and yellow icing and green dyed coconut layered together- yum!) which fit our “outdoor”/”summer camp” theme.
We did serve lunch too…
Salads and sandwiches!
And for good measure…
Champagne punch! Hey- we were all 21! Well, except for this little sweetie…
But she didn’t get to have any.
It was a beautiful, tasty afternoon. And the leftovers made the next day pretty sweet too!
Choose joy,
E
