Hello Kitty Birthday Party

This party was created for my daughter Chloe who just turned 3. Hello Kitty was the inspiration with an Alice in Wonderland twist. I absolutely adored the Table Tutu's by Sweets Indeed so I knew for a fact that I was going to be using one.
Sweet treats included a gorgeous Hello Kitty Cake I designed, Hello Kitty Cake Pops, Hello Kitty cupcakes and lots of candy.
I also purchased spiral sippy cups from party city for all the little girls. I personalized them with the kids' names and a hello kitty face. This was a big hit There are so many details. Take a look below.

Photo Op

Hello Kitty in Wonderland Cake

Hello Kitty Party Favors

Hello Kitty Party Activities

Birthday Girl making a candy necklace

Candy Necklace and rings

Vendor Credits

Party Decor and Styling: Simplyiced Party Details

Cake : Cake Delirium, Miami Florida

Cupcakes: A Cupcake Heaven

Cakepops: Simplyiced Party Details (Facebook page)

Hello Kitty Cupcake Toppers : Simplyiced Party Details

Tolsby Picture Frames: Ikea

Hello Kitty Dolls and toys: Old Navy and Toys R US

Party Tables and Chairs: Better Party Rentals

Polka Dot Fabric Backdrop: Jo-Anns Fabrics

Angry Bird Birthday Party

I enjoyed preparing this party so much and I hope to share some ideas and tutorials soon. Please email me if you can't wait :)

Angry Birds Party Favor Bags

Angry Birds Cake Pops

Angry Birds Cake

Angry Bird Dessert Table

Hello Kitty Party -Part 2

Hello Kitty Dessert Table

This wonderful Dessert Table features, a custom made Hello Kitty Cake , Hello Kitty cupcakes and some  Pink and Yellow Candy Buffet jars with cute pink bows. 

Hello Kitty- First Birthday Party~ PART 1

This Hello Kitty party was so fabulous with lots of hello kitty goodies for the kids and a photo-op fit for celebrities.

This party colors were inspired by my Pink and Yellow Dot Princess Party and also Curious Charley Monkey Party from Paiges of Style.
Here are some photos.

Cupcake Flower Toppers as seen on Paiges of Style

Outside Lawn decorated with these fabulous lawn furniture.

A Close up of the Side Tables custom with Hello Kitty's message to Samantha

My favorite part of this party was this Photo Op Banner.

Pirate Cake Pops

NEW and Improved Pirate Cake Pops

For the pirate Cake pops, you will need red candy melt, white candy melt, mini M&M's, giant heart sprinkles, pearl sprinkles (or white confetti sprinkles) and a good black edible food pen.

How to make cake pops?

 Here is a great link with instructions

I made a vanilla cake as well as a chocolate cake this time around .

After I attached the lollipop sticks, I placed the cake pops back into the freezer.

The chocolate cake was more of a challenge than the vanilla cake. Even though I used about 4 tbsp of frosting, my cake balls were falling off the lollipop sticks. Eventually I got the hang of it. I started holding my cake balls on the stick upright and tilted my candy melt horizontally to coat.

 I swirled the cake pops gently into the candy melt until they were almost smooth with candy coating.



Candy coated cake pops.

I just bought cake decorating paint brushes so I plan to fix the eye patches with the fine tip brush and some black icing color. Wish me luck!

Personalized Cake Pops

Why not write the name of the birthday girl or boy on the cake pop?

This was my second attempt at making cake pops and I had some excess candy melt which I stored in sandwich bags. By making a tiny hole in the corner of the bags, I was able to write with the candy melt, as you would with a piping bag and tip.

TIP: Place the sandwich bag with the candy in hot water to melt. I do not recommend microwaving the bag.
Enjoy!

Cake Pops: My experience and Tips

Spring Cake Pops

My attempt at the "Spring Chicks" Cake Pops from Bakerella's book.

After reading Bakerella's book on Cake Pops, I decided to try them out. Since, I do not enjoy baking, I used a boxed cake mix and frosting.

These were my tools and ingredients

To decorate the cake pops, I used yellow candy melt and sprinkles as well a black edible food pen for the eyes.

Sprinkle Types :

Orange rainbow chip sprinkles

Yellow rainbow chip sprinkles

Orange wildflower sprinkles.

Tip#1:
 Even though the book recommends using 3/4 of the 16 oz tub of frosting, I used only 4 tbsp of frosting for the entire cake.I would recommend adding a couple spoons of the frosting at a time until you have the right consistency. I had absolutely no problem making the cake balls. Also, none of my cake pops, fell off in the candy melt.

Tip #2
Some cake mix will produce very moist cakes. I used Betty Crocker supreme moist vanilla cake mix which came out pretty moist so again be careful when adding the frosting. Add a little at a time.

Tip#3
Add a small drop of vegetable oil if the candy melt is too thick. Otherwise, you'll notice your cake balls are too heavy and has excess candy melt.

Tip#4
Use sprinkles to cover up imperfections in the candy coating.

Tip#5
Have lots of toothpicks handy. You will need these to smooth off excess candy melt or to position sprinkles or decorations on your cake balls.

The cake balls are chilling in the freezer, in a covered foil pan.

Tip#6
Use a foil pan with a plastic cover to cool your cake pops. I placed waxed paper in the bottom of the pan .
The cake pops came out way too sweet so I am thinking of trying a chocolate cake mix and cream cheese frosting next time.