This 3 tier gift box cake is covered in red and green fondant with a white bow on top and snowflakes falling along the sides.

These Christmas gift box cakes were for a retirement party. There were three different cake flavors – one red velvet with cream cheese, another was yellow cake with vanilla buttercream and the final gift was chocolate cake with peanut butter filling.

We took our popular farm animal cake and dressed everyone up in Santa hats to capture the Christmas spirit and celebrate a 1st birthday. Happy Holidays!!

This baby shower cake topper with cupcakes is decked out with a red band and bow at the base of the tier. Atop the cupcake topper is a pregnant lady dressed up in a red and white santa outfit. Inside the cake was chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream.

Pink Cake Box found plaid cupcake liners…. which matched my decor so well! I created a Santa topper and cupcakes also for our annual Christmas cocktail party! The cupcake flavors were pistachio green velvet ( a new flavor that was collaborated by Michael and Tara) with chai tea buttercream, red velvet with cream cheese, chocolate with white chocolate peppermint and vanilla with hazelnut frangelico. We also made truffles, mini mousse tarts and lots of cookies!!

Inspired by our Winter Wonderland Wedding cake, this 3 tier cake was created for a corporate event in the Upper East Side in New York City. Pink Cake Box also incorporated the bow from our Topsy Turvy Damask Wedding Cake. Flavors included vanilla cake with raspberry chambord buttercream and vanilla with chocolate buttercream and fresh strawberries.

I don’t know about you, but I am certainly inspired for 2011!

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

The hippest party planners from around the world are taking the humble balloon and making it the chicest decorating accessory of the moment.  Take giant bulbous balloons filled with helium and use them to decorate your room and each table.  Secure with your floral centrepiece or in a vase of lollies for a truly whimsical look.  Cheap, beautiful and fun!

Australia’s most stylish party shop, Pink Frosting, has just taken delivery of a whole new range of chic party balloons, perfect for kids parties, Christmas and other holiday celebrations, adult birthday parties, swanky soirees and even weddings.  Some of our favourites include:

• Chocolate Brown Party Balloons – we are so excited to finally offer this very chic colour in a party balloon;
• Jungle Assorted Party Balloons – perfect for a jungle themed birthday party or a safari adult celebration;
• Polka Dot Pastel Assorted Party Balloons – we love these balloons for kitchen teas, baby showers and Spring party celebrations;
• Rainbow Sprays Party Balloons – gorgeous for a rainbow party, garden party or a shower of any kind – oh so sweet;
• Tropical Hibiscus Beach Party Balloons – make your next BBQ or beach party more colourful with these beachy themed party balloons in tropical colours.

Whatever you’re celebrating, beautiful party balloons really are the central decoration packing a punch on a budget.  The Pink Frosting balloon range is all professional quality – perfect for inflating with helium (you can hire helium canisters locally) or simply inflating with good old fashioned lung power!

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Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

The personalised chocolate bar favor has had a revamp and hip, hip, hooray!  They are amazing!

For only $3.55 each, they won’t break the bank either.  Available at Pink Frosting’s online celebration shop.  Perfect!

And on a very serious note, these chocolate bars are produced in a nut free U.S. facility and are guaranteed safe for anyone with a nut or peanut allergy.  Phew…

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

Invitations, stationey and favors

We used invitations and favors from the Paper Eskimo range at Pink Frosting.  The Barnyard Celebration range is so bright and fun, we simple couldn’t have created anything better ourselves!   I love that they come with a magnet, so your guests can pop them on the fridge to remind them of where and when the party is.  A really neat little feature.

Our favor bags were from the same range and we used the lolly bag tags from Paper Eskimo as well.  Because the guests were young (between one and three years of age) we gave simple favours of soft lollies and cowboy hats for all of the guests to protect them from the sunshine.

Decorations and Styling

Central to our theme were the E-I-E-I-O Barnyard theme balloons, which we used around 300 of both outside and in the areas leading to the bathroom inside the house.  The outdoor balloons were secured with heavy balloon weights in bright colours and the indoor balloons were left to hang from the ceiling, leaving their long ribbons for the kids to pull at.

Bails of hay were sourced from a local farm supplier and we dotted them around the party area as a decorative element and also a budget way for guests to sit during the party.   Afterwards, hay is great on your garden, so it isn’t a waste at all!

We found some cow print fabric at Spotlight and simply cut it to size as a fun table cloth on all the tables.  The contrast between the bright balloons and decorations was fantastic.  Plastic party cutlery, partyware and straws were all in a rainbow of super-bright colours, again to contrast with the black and white cow print cloths.

Fun and Games

Kids between the ages of one and three don’t need much in the way of organised entertainment.  As a matter of fact, if you try and organise them with a game of pass the parcel, it will probably end in frustration and tears!  Instead, turn the music up loud, give them a dance floor and plenty of space to run around and they’ll make their own fun.  We had one organised activity which was cupcake decorating:  simply give the kids a plain iced cupcake each and a table of lollies, sprinkles, chocolate drops etc and let them decorate their own cupcakes.  This was a real winner!

Menu and Catering

We’re lucky enough to work with some wonderful caterers, so we hired Cinnamon Catering in Canberra to cater our party.  Cinnamon organised a great kids menu (that the adults enjoyed more than the kids, I think!) which included mini pies, corn on the cob, fruit skewers and mini sausages in rolls.

The cake was a banana cake (the guest of honour’s favourite) in two layers, decorated with her favourite sweets – smarties and musk sticks.  A cow candle and her initials on the cake tied in with the theme.

We had a ball!  I hope you have fun at your farm party too!

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn