Ballerina Birthday Party Part 2: Dessert Table

If I could send a message to myself the day before the party it would be "don't cry over lost tips". If I could send a message to myself a week before the party it would be "check to make sure you have your cake decorating tips".  So this is how it went down.  Travel back with me to the Strawberry Shortcake Party.  I was convinced that I could decorate a better cupcake if only I had the right decorating tip.  So for Christmas I got the tips I wanted.  Now jump ahead to Friday night.  It is late Friday night. The party is on Saturday morning.  I open up my kitchen drawer and my new decorating tips are gone.  My old decorating tips are gone. My pastry bags are gone.  I remembered bringing them to my mom's to decorate gingerbread.  I called my mom and she looked around.  I looked every place I could think of. Nothing.  This is where my message would have come in handy.  I worked too hard on this party to have it be ruined by lost tips.  So naturally what does a 36 week pregnant lady do? She cries. And cry I did.  Then at 11:00 pm I get a knock on my door.  My dear sweet mother and father had gone and purchased me some tips.  They weren't the exact tips I needed because all the specialty stores were already closed but they were better than nothing.  One actually turned out to be superior than what I had before. They saved the day.

 Now onto the dessert table...

The drink of choice for my daughter is Sprite.  We rarely have pop at our house so whenever we go out to eat, Sprite is the thing she is most excited for.  So Sprite went into those pink cups with the darling grey stripped straws.  We also had pink colored white chocolate popcorn.  I cut out the popcorn boxes with my silhouette and added a touch of pink tulle.

You can't go wrong with cupcakes for a party. I went with two different cupcakes- a super moist devils food cake and a super moist white cake.  I used this recipe for both adding devils food pudding and devils food cake mix for the one and white cake and vanilla pudding for the other.  For the white cake I used the cream cheese / sour cream frosting from the recipe but I used this recipe for the chocolate frosting. 

Both turned out yummy yummy yummy.

I saw the cutest pinwheel boxes a while ago and knew that I wanted to do some for my dessert table.  Mine were filled with assorted pink candies including Hershey kisses, Starbursts, Frutties, etc.

When I saw this gorgeous rose cake tutorial from i am baker and I couldn't get it out of my head.  She made it look so easy.  Did I really want to attempt it? There was no way that mine would turn out looking like roses.  Well it was easy and it looked super cute.

So there you have it. My dessert table wasn't the lost cause that I felt it was on Friday night. It came together after all.  I am still wondering though what little elf has my decorating tips!

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