Gingerbread Cupcakes

Gingerbread Showdown Viewing Party 

When your friend is competing on the Food Network Gingerbread Showdown, you throw a viewing party.  Complete with gingerbread houses and cupcakes. I watch Food Networks holiday food challenges all the time so I was SUPER excited to watch my friend compete.  Only the best of the best get to compete on these shows.  And my friend Tikkido has some serious gingerbread skills. 

I invited a few friends over to watch with me and you know I had to decorate for the theme.  I picked up a Wilton boxed ready to make gingerbread house kit.  I thought about making my own gingerbread to build a house but since I've never done that before and it was a busy holiday weekend, I saved myself some time and bought a kit.

I had a few issues in frosting the houses.  The kit comes with icing, piping bags and tips.  I had no problems piping out the frosting for the 'glue' to hold the pieces together.  When I went to pipe the doors and windows I was starting to have a little trouble.  By the time I got to the roofs the icing did not want to come out of the bag.  I squeezed hard and no icing would come out.  I didn't want to squeeze too hard though because icing could have exploded every where.  So I grabbed a new bag and tip and tried again.  Again, it started piping ok and then froze.  Sigh.  I had some sugar cookie icing on hand so I started spreading it with a knife to get snow on the houses and on the ground around the houses.

Oh my goodness the cupcakes. Our house smelled so good while they were baking.  I frosted them with cream cheese frosting and also filled the cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.   I do love a cream cheese frosting.  The recipe I used was from  Live for Cakes. 

You may not be hosting your own viewing party but these cupcakes and gingerbread houses are perfect for a holiday movie watching party, a Christmas open house, gift wrapping party or just cause you want to hang out with your girlfriends.

Get the best gingerbread house recipe and Tikkido's Gingerbread for Beginners book. 

Oh Snap! Sweets Christmas Party

Oh Snap!  It's party time! December means Christmas Open House parties and when I saw this invitation I had this years theme.  I filled the cute invitation with  fun custom confetti from The Confetti Bar . If you pop over to Instagram and type in #FizzyPartyOhSnap you'll see lots of party fun.

With that sweet little gingerbread man on the invitation hinting of what was to come at the party I didn't disappoint my guests.   My fav, gummy sweets by Sweets Indeed  were served with happy little gingerbread men on them. It was super hard not to eat these before the guests arrived.  Seriously guys, I have a major gummy candy addiction.  Candifetti, the newest addition to the Sweets Indeed family added colour to the bottom of the jar.

Gingerhead Cookies  did a great job creating cookies based off the invitation. How cute is that gingerbread man!

Sno-Ball fight! Fancy and Fold's gingerbread man toppers are the perfect accent to the Sno-Ball cakes. They were as close to snow as we've received this year.

Marshmallow pops by Sparkling Sweets Boutique.  These are fun to dip into your hot cocoa. Hot cocoa is a must for December parties. It warms everyone up when the weather outside is chilly.

Cute cupcake toppers by Edible Details add whimsy to cupcakes and your table.  Add some festive fun by sitting the cupcakes on top peppermint sticks.  Your guests might sneak one to add to their hot cocoa and that's ok.  Peppermint in hot cocoa is so nummy.

Delicious cookies by Gingerhead Cookies and gingerbread mini donuts by Green Mountain Mini Baked kept guests sweet tooth's satisfied. Don't you just love those plates, they're from Create Ur Plate.   They match the them perfectly. Oh Snap! someone ate my leg!

Comfy squishy pillows and a cozy blanket helped the guests relax and enjoy the afternoon with friends. All stress about the holiday's was forgotten for a few hours.

I always send my guests home with a Thank You and party favor.  I love that these thank you cards carry the theme to the back of the card as well.

Guests were sent home with gingerbread sugar scrubs sporting a custom label from Small Moments. This scrub makes your shower smell sooo good and your skin so incredibly soft.  I used A Pumpkin and a Princess's recipe.   I used dark brown sugar which works just as well as light brown.

If you liked this Christmas party you might also like:

Christmas Open House Goodies

Elf Christmas Open House party 

Vendors:

Fizzy Party - Styling, photography, tulle poms
The Confetti Bar - Custom confetti
Sweets Indeed - Candy Kabobs and Candifetti
Gingerhead Cookies - Cookies
Fancy & Fold - Gingerbread man cupcake toppers
Ten 23 Designs - Wood hashtag and wood gingerbread man backdrop
Sparkling Sweets Boutique - Marshmallow pops
Edible Details - Cupcake toppers
Green Mountain Mini Baked - Gingerbread mini donuts
Create Ur Plate - Plates
Small Moments - Custom label for sugar scrub
Tiny Prints - Invitations, thank you notes, pillows, and blanket

Hot Chocolate, Mini Bundt Party

I LOVE Christmas movies!  So I invited a friend over to watch one and have hot cocoa and mini bundts.  Now I could have just made her a hot chocolate and handed her a mini bundt on a plate.  But why not fizzy it  up a little.  It's easy. Even if it's a spur of the moment get together.  

I dressed up the table with snow batting. Added some glittery snowflakes for background and put the hot cocoa toppings in cute Christmas dishes.

Mmm festive hot cocoa.  I had 3 different kinds of whipped topping too.  Caramel, chocolate and peppermint. Adding a little peppermint schnapps to your cocoa makes it extra tasty.

Gingerbread mini bundts got their festive on with a snowy glaze and edible holly leaves.