Thanksgiving Day Dessert

Thanksgiving Day Desserts 

**Products given to me by Oriental Trading in exchange for styling a party. I work with them because I've been buying from them for years!**

When I think of Thanksgiving dessert I think pie.  Pumpkin pie and berry pie, mmm mmm.  This year why not change it up and serve up easy desserts like cupcakes, cookies and more. This works especially well if you're hosting a last minute Friendsgiving.  Save yourself time and pick up some goodies at a great local bakery. 

Chocolate chip cookies. Who doesn't love those? Me. I don't like chocolate chip cookies. Never have. But I'm just weird like that. People always give me the, "I did not just hear you say you don't like chocolate chip cookies" look.  But hey, more cookies for everyone else. 

I don't know about your house but football is always on on Thanksgiving and popcorn goes great with watching the game. Especially when it's kettle corn.  

Now this is what I'm talking about. Cupcakes. That smooth frosting is calling my name.  To make your cupcakes more festive you can cut out craft paper to use as cupcake wrappers. 

Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving save yourself some stress and ask your family or friends to bring some dessert or pick it up at a local bakery. The day should be about enjoying time with family and friends, not stress. 

Shop this party- 

White pumpkin and pinecone candle holders- Oriental Trading

Pumpkin cake stand and white trays- HomeGoods 

Glitter Turkey- Fizzy Party on Etsy 

Halloween Outdoor Dinner Party Desserts

Once October hits everyone's calendars start filling up fast with pumpkin patch dates, cider parties and Halloween parties.  So get on your friends calendar's early and have them over for Halloween dessert outside.  By hosting it early in October not only will you have a good turn out but it's still warm enough outside to eat outside as long as you dress in layers.  This dessert party was inspired by Oriental Trading's party staples. 

Keep the decor to a minimum and let the outdoors be the main decor.

Plain popcorn boxes  get spookified with some glittery ribbon and spider stickers.

Crow candy cameo's and spider webb cupcake cups dress up store bought cupcakes.

Serve up holiday inspired popcorn like candy corn flavored or pumpkin spice.  Jelly Belly jelly beans  double as decor and snack and add a touch of colour to the tray the popcorn boxes sit on.

Elevate your cupcakes by using cupcake pedestals .  They add a nice touch of colour to your table.

I love using Jelly Belly jelly beans  in my dessert decor.  Not only do they add some colour and texture to the trays and compliment the desserts that sit on top of them. But my friends love to grab a handful as they take a popcorn box or cupcake.  No one can resist the lure of the Jelly Belly jelly bean.

Now shop this party and host your own outdoor Halloween dessert party. And be sure to share your pics with me. 

Styling, concept, design and photography:  Fizzy Party 
Paper fans, popcorn boxes, cupcake pedestals:  Oriental Trading 
Coffins, ribbon and stickers: Michaels
Table Linen: Joann Fabric and Craft
Crow candy cameos: Wilton
White trays: Home Goods
Light Box: Heidi Swapp
Spider cupcake cups: I've had them awhile, I can't remember where I got them. oops
Popcorn: World Market
Jelly Beans: Jelly Belly 

Dessert Bar- Fizzy Party Trop Fest

Welcome back. Did you miss the crafting part of the evening?  If so, pop over here.
End of July I took a leap and hosted my first craft night out at Opal 28.  The attendees and I painted trinket dishes using paints by Plaid Craft.

All that crafting at Fizzy Party Trop Fest can make one hungry so lets get on over to the dessert bar and load up our plates.

First stop, the bar for a drink. We're going to need something to wash down all those tasty treats.  Being a tropical themed party your drink would just be boring if you didn't dress it up.  Dressing up a drink doesn't have to be expensive.  Flamingo straws and palm tree stirrers from Oriental Trading are inexpensive and add a lot of fun to drinks.

Flamingo down! Cut him off. 

This is one of my favorite dessert bars!  Why do I have to make something look so good because now the pressures on to top it.  ha ha!  All that colour just POPs and draws you in.  One of my favorite features of the dessert bar is the gold fringy curtain from Shindigz. Inexpensive but lots of eye appeal.  The SWEETS paper mache letters from Darice started out as plain brown boring letters.  In one short afternoon I took them from boring to tropical.

Let's dish up.  Thank goodness for Instagram because when I saw  Pink Poppy Party Shoppe  post these napkins I knew they were perfect for the event.  Love when that happens.  And I had so many attendees ask me about these great plates from Create Ur Plate.  Small Moments  created the graphics for me.  The great thing about these plates is that you can peel off the graphic underneath and save it for the next party.

So, I might have gone a little overboard on the dessert bar ;)  I have quite the sweet tooth after all.  Lux Sucre  who I met a few years ago at a wedding show  made all the delicious baked goods.  

                       

As much as I love baked goods I'm all over the sugary treats.  Jelly Belly jelly beans have got to be at the top of my candy weakness list.  I can't tell you how many scoops of jelly beans I ate that night.
I should have saved one of the pineapple candy kabobs from Sweets Indeed  because they went fast! Marquee Design PDX was all excited about them.  I think she's my candy sister soul mate.

If you're into gourmet popcorn you would have ignored the dessert table and headed straight to the big bowl of  Poplandia Popcorn  . Coconut on one side and NW raspberry on the other.  The honeycomb balls from Shindigz complimented the popcorn perfectly.

None of the attendees could resist these stinkin cute pineapple shaped strawberry filled macarons that Delectable Baked Goods  created for the event.  I pushed her macaron skills by asking her to create pineapple shaped macarons.  I'd say she gets an A+

Strawberry meringue's dipped in chocolate and dressed in pink sprinkles.

Rock candy is so fun, comes in so many great colours and just says, PARTY!!!

I don't know about you but I'm stuffed.

Ready to create your own tropical event? Let's go shopping.
Shop this event:

Styling, concept and design:  Fizzy Party 
Venue: Opal 28
Graphics: Small Moments 
Palm leaves, coconut cups, flamingo straws, palm tree stirrers: Oriental Trading 
Napkins: Pink Poppy Party Shoppe 
Mini flamingos: Amazon 
Paper mache letters: Darice 
Plates: Create Ur Plate
Pineapple tulle poms: Pretti Mini 
Licorice and gummy candies: Oh! Nuts 
Macarons: Delectable Baked Goods 
Popcorn: Poplandia 
Cupcakes, lemon bars, meringues, and coconut shooters: Lux Sucre Desserts 
Jelly Beans: Jelly Belly 
Gold curtain, honeycomb balls and pineapples, rock candy: Shindigz 

Galentine's Day Brunch Desserts

Welcome back. Ready for dessert? 

Be sure to go back and see the entrance and brunch. 

Creating Awesomenessity created these great cookies for the Galentine's brunch desserts. The wood grain effect looks so real you almost think they're not cookies. 

I had plans to make my own doughnuts but I had made a quiche and strawberry scones so I zipped down to Kripsy Kreme and bought these fun doughnuts. No reason to stress yourself out or stay up late making something for your party. Parties are suppose to be fun for those attending and for those hosting.  Not stressful. 

I am not a fan of chocolate but Lindt truffles are so good that my taste buds make an exception. These white chocolate strawberry  cream filled ones were perfect for the party. 

I treated my friends to Maggie Louise Confections dark chocolates filled with vanilla bean ganache. There was not a piece left. 

My guests don't leave my parties without a favor and this Galentine's party was no exception. 

Olive oil, brown sugar sugar scrub scented with tangerine essential oil went home with each guest. I love homemade sugar scrubs because they smell good and make your skin so soft. 

After brunch and dessert my guests and I had a fun time taking pics against the balloon photo backdrop I created.  Bonus post on Saturday with more fun pics of my guests and I having fun, fun FUN! 

Don't my friends look happy! 

Now go out and throw your own Galentine's party and be sure to send me a pic or tag me on Instagram so I can see it. 

Vendors-
Cookies: Contact Creating Awesomenessity for cookies created to match your party theme.
Party Picks: Fancy and Fold can create any party pick to match your party theme.
Paper hearts on party favor jars: Painting Paris Pink 

If Krisy Kreme, Lindt Truffles or Maggie Loiuse Confections happens to see this post, I'm available to create a party styled around your products.

Beer Birthday Party

 A few weekends ago I got to attend a party. A change for me because I'm usually the one hosting them. This party was thrown by B. Lovely Events  who happens to live down the street from me. 

The party was for her husband's birthday and she had a great theme for it, Dirty Thirty Beer Party. So many parties are catered toward feminine themes so it was refreshing to see such a fun masculine party.  All the male guests really loved this party. I heard so many compliments from the men about this party. Who says men don't appreciate parties and all the details of a party theme. 

You can't have a beer party without bar snacks of pretzels, popcorn and peanuts. 

 Chips and pretzels go great with beer.

Industrial details like the backdrop and rusted letters give the party the deep masculine feel. 

Does this dessert table say manly or what?  All the treats on the dessert table had beer cooked in them, soaked in them or drizzled on them. 

You've heard of tiramisu, well this is beeramisu. 

I HAD to try some of these chocolate covered marshmallows with pretzel bits, mmmm. B. Lovely Events did a great job in making these. So good.  I sampled a mini donut too made by Green Mountain Mini Baked.  Delicious! I'll be ordering some for my parties. 

To see all the details of this party head over to B. Lovely Events

Printables by The Owlery 
Beer Cake Pops by Sparkling Sweet Shop 
Beer Marquee Sign by Lightbulbs
Wood Backdrop by Bubblegum Backdrops 

Behind the Halloween Party Scene



This is where I let you in on what was going on in my mind for my mini Spider Luncheon with my friends.  All the things that are missing, didn't happen or didn't turn out how I wanted.  Would you notice them if I didn't point them out?  Probably not.  My guests didn't.   But I did.  Of course I did.   I planned the party.  One of the things I had planned was Halloween music. I have 4 CD's of Halloween music I wanted to use.  I didn't get a chance to play it though because my friend needed to bring her 5 year old.  So we played A Nightmare Before Christmas for him instead  to keep him occupied while us adults talked.  Sometimes you just need to roll with unexpected guests.   

See that purple arrow down there.  How it's pointing to a blank space next to the spider.  I wanted to have spider webbing spread all over underneath the table.  I think it would have added that extra something and made the big spider look more in his element. Why didn't I do it? It was a last minute thought and have you ever tried to work with that webbing?  Tape will hold it in place but not while you're stretching it out making it look all creepy.  It just comes loose and pulls away from the spot you attached it to.

I had bought cardboard letters to spell out EEK and black glittered them up.  As you can see from the arrow, some of the glitter didn't stick as well.  Disappointing to me because I wanted the letters to be heavy on the black glitter.  Would you have noticed if I didn't point it out?  Probably not.  But I noticed.  Next time I make glittered letters I'll know to really be heavy with the glitter.

The gap.  Not a big party foul but it would have looked better without it.  Had this been a big party with lots of guests I would have had a lot more peanut butter chocolates there and the gap wouldn't have been seen.

I'm torn about the pumpkin bread.  I enjoy baking and when fall hits, I especially like making pumpkin bread.  I had intended to make some for the party but my husband bought some at Great Harvest Bread Company .  He BOUGHT pumpkin bread!  I was emotionally torn.  Part of me was a little upset.  I was thinking, how could you buy pumpkin bread.  It's so easy to make and homemade tastes so good.  I love to put walnuts in my bread.  Another part of me was thinking, this just saved me some time.  Plus Great Harvest does use good healthy ingredients and tastes pretty close to homemade.   

I had this plan to use my Wilton black color mist food color and give the cupcakes an eerie look.  However, the black mist didn't adhere to the frosting like I thought it would.  I was disappointed in the colour but my friends thought the cupcakes looked great. 

Ahh, the giant spider mold.  I got a brain storm the day before the party.  Not enough time to do what I wanted to do.  I wanted to make a GIANT bath fizzie spider for all my guests as a party favor.  How cool would that be!  You could break off a leg anytime you wanted to take a bath.  I didn't have enough time because I work a full time job.  So I wouldn't have been able to start making the fizzies until 6:00 p.m. Friday night.  Since I only had one mold it would take me all night and into the morning to make 4 of them and they wouldn't have dried in time.  My friends didn't know this was missing because they never knew I had this idea.  It would have been a great party favor. 

I love the look of all those professional cookies.  You know the ones.  They look like works of art.  I wanted to try my hand at them and impress my friends with fabulous cookies on the dessert table.  I bought everything I needed.  The gels and the luster dust.  Than I felt like I was getting the bad cold my boss and co-worker had.  They were both out 3.5 days.  I took one day off work which made me lose an entire day of party prep.  Not having ever decorated cookies all pro like I knew I needed a lot of time to prep.  Between taking a day off for the cold and the cookies breaking, I didn't get the cookies made.  Lesson learned:  Roll out thicker cookies.   

McGyvering your party is sometimes called for when unexpected events and conditions get in the way of your party prep.  And remember, your guests won't know anything's missing.  Only you will.   Unless of course you told them every party detail ahead of time.  Which Of course you didn't. Right?

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