In addition to the pink ruffle flower cake that I made for my best friend Sue's baby shower, I also made a few other items for the dessert table! I envisioned a girly pink table, with handmade tissue pom poms floating above the table, and some desserts on tiered cake stands beside the cake. In front would be onesie and flower sugar cookie favors, and the table would also include some fizzy pink lemonade in cute drinking jars. Here's the sketch that I made during the planning:
And here's how the desserts turned out!
The first dessert I started on was the sugar cookies a week before the shower, since I would be wrapping them individually as the favors and they keep really well this way. I decided on onesie cookies, as well as flower cookies (click on the links for more details).
I did the onesies in white, with pink outlines...
... and the flowers in pink, with white centers.
Then three days before the shower, I made the strawberry macarons, since they need at least 24 hours to set in the fridge.
Two days before the shower, I made the mini cheesecakes. The crust was made with a combination of chocolate graham cracker crumbs, and regular graham cracker crumbs...
... topped with a creamy cheesecake batter and baked in a water bath to avoid cracks ...
.. and the top was decorated with fresh strawberries and strawberry jam to hold them in place.
Finally, the day before the shower I baked and decorated the pink ruffle flower cake (shown in my my previous post).
During the week I also made these mint ice cubes to put in a cute pitcher of water.
The secret to getting the mint leaves to stay in the middle of the ice cube (instead of floating on top) was to fill the ice cube trays halfway and then place the mint leaf in the tray, freeze it to keep the leaf in place, and then fill the rest of the ice cube tray to trap the leaf perfectly in the middle!
Oh and I forgot to mention the handmade tissue pom poms! I started on them about a month before the shower - I would make one or two whenever I had some free time, using this tutorial at Martha Stewart. I ended up making ten poms (five above the dessert table, and five above the food table), and they turned out super cute! I ordered tissue paper in various colors from Amazon - pale pink, darker pink, and two different shades of gold.
I also bought cute pink stripe paper straws, wooden utensils, and cute paper plates and napkins on Amazon.
Sue loves afternoon tea, so the girls and I had decided to make that the theme. We made various tea sandwiches, deviled eggs, scones, tossed salad and fruit salad, and had a cheese and crackers platter as well. We also had four different flavors of tea at the drink station, as well as the mint ice water and more fizzy pink lemonade.
Everything turned out lovely and we had such a great time celebrating Sue and her baby girl on the way!
Happy baby shower, Sue!!! We love you!
Love the mint ice cubes idea. I am also learning from the designs of your sandwiches. Please release some of your recipes on your blog.
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