A Cupcake Party!

Table decor from K by Cunanan Catering

For our daughter's 1st birthday party, we decided on a Cupcake Princess theme. Since my husband and I have always wanted non-character themed parties for our kids' birthdays, it was either that or The Wizard of Oz and the Yellow Brick Road Party. (There were other possibilities, but those were the last two standing). As the latter would be much harder to execute and may be too unfamiliar to some kids who may not have read the book (my kids included) Cupcake Princess theme won.

The major centerpiece of the Cupcake Princess party would be the Cupcake Buffet. Since my baking skills are practically non-existent, my involvement in the Cupcake Buffet would be limited to deciding on the color scheme (pink, light pink, and dark pink), finding suppliers who made good cupcakes (luckily, I knew some), and 'designing' the table to make sure the different elements contributed to the overall look that we wanted.





Oh and since we figured we'd be needing flowers to spruce up the the table, I happily put myself in charge of that.

Carnations in different shades of pink, purchased in Dangwa.
P140.00 - P 160.00 per bundle.
I needed 4 bundles to fill up 2 vases.
Spaghetti vase P 220.00 each

Gerberas, P150.00 - P180.00 per bundle.
Small round vases, P 40.00 each.

Here are some pictures of how it turned out:

Photo courtesy of Joy San Gabriel



Photo courtesy of Joy San Gabriel

For the Cupcake Dessert Buffet, everything was made into bite-sized pieces so guests can try as many different desserts as they pleased. We had Chocolate Cupcakes, Oreo Cheesecake Cupcakes, Coffee Caramel Cupcakes, Strawberry Shortcake, Othello and Russian Tea Cookies from Joy San Gabriel.  I personally am truly in love with Joy's Strawberry Shortcake and Coffee Caramel. My mom loves the Russian Tea Cookies.

Chocolate Mini Cupcakes with Customized Gumpaste Toppers

Oreo Cheesecake Mini Cupcakes with Customized Gumpaste Toppers

Othello

Russian Tea Cookies

Strawberry Shortcake

We also had eto-yung-masarap-na-macaroons-Custaroons in Original and Cheese from Gigi Gaerlan of Gigi's Custaroons. Our friends are huge Gigi fans as we always bring these Custaroons to dinners and parties so these were a crowd favorite as well.

Custaroons Second and Third Plate from the left.
Photo courtesy of Joy San Gabriel

Pixie Sevilla-Santos' Forget Me Not Cakes provided colorful and scrumptuous French Macaroons and supper yummy Mini Brazo de Remedios. Also from Forget Me Not is the Cookie Decorating Cart. The kids had a lot of fun decorating the pre-baked cookies with different colored frostings.

Our giveaways were full-sized cupcakes that guests could bring home and enjoy.

Coffee Caramel

Kilauea - Chocolate with Nuts

Strawberry Shortcake

Fresh Fruit Shortcake

Oreo Cheesecake in a pink 'Cupcake Shop' box with striped canopy.

Princess Birthday Cake, a gift from Rubis Bakeshop

When I was finally ready to sample the yummy treats after most of the guests have gone, I find an empty buffet table. The bright side, I guess is that the guests did enjoy our Cupcake Buffet. =)

If you need goodies for an upcoming party, here are the links to my best girls:
Joy San Gabriel www.joysangabrielcakes.blogspot.com
Gigi's Custaroons www.custaroons.com
Forget Me Not Specialty Cakes www.facebook.com/forgetmenotspecialtycakes

All packaging materials (boxes, cupcake towers, cupcake liners) available at RM Box Center www.rmboxes.com