Your rustic wedding favours combine the essence of the country and homemade goodies with a vintage feel to them. A very popular and cost effective idea is to create your own home made goodies as your favours. Homemade mini pies and mini glass jars filled with strawberry jams sitting at each place setting with a gorgeous personalised gingham sticker to match.

These gorgeous rustic French Provencal Mini Pitchers would make for the perfect addition on your table decorations and also team up as a wedding favour for your guests.

If you want to stick with tradition but add that rustic feel, fill these linen bags with ‘Love’ and other fun things like chocolate treats and sweets for guests to enjoy throughout the night.

Another great wedding favour we have seen throughout weddings is the use of hand fans! You can add a touch of rustic feel to you hand fans bu hosing colours like rich browns to match in nicely with your rustic theme.

Adding a rustic feel to your wedding is made simple with the help of Pink Frosting party supplies to inspire you!

Happy Celebrating

The Pink Frosting Team xxx

At Pink Frosting we have put together of a board of inspiration for you to start planning your perfect autumn beach wedding!

Start with your wedding invitations, they will set the scene for the rest of your wedding. Incorporating the colours of autumn into your beach theme is made easy with this gorgeous range of wedding invitations avaliable from Pink Frosting Party Supplies.

For a modern feel to your invitations, try these contemporary solid apricot colour invitations which are a gorgeous representation of coral.

When it comes to deciding on your wedding decorations, beach themed weddings always look amazing with strings and strings of lanterns floating flawlessly above your table settings or dance floor, to add a touch of autumn feel to your beach theme use dark chocolate brown lanterns mixed with white and cream lanterns of all different shapes magically floating above your reception are.

Don’t forget to treat your guests with the most gorgeous wedding favours or wedding bombonieres! For the autumn beach wedding theme you can pass out delicate hand fans in deep orange, chocolate browns and rich reds for guests to take home as a keep sake to remember your special day.

Happy Celebrating!

The Pink Frosting Team xx

These beautiful tear drop hanging vases with acrylic garland make for the perfect addition to your table centerpieces.

Say thanks to your guests for sharing in your special day with this Tiffany inspired With This Ring key chain

These elegant diamond scatters will add that little bit extra sparkle to any table setting, whether its the bridal table or scattered on cocktail tables at your event, your tables will shine like a diamond!

These glamorous bottle stoppers will make for a perfect wedding favour or wedding bomboniere for guests to take home and remember the fantastic time they had at your special event!

With the right touches of sparkle, your next wedding or party will be made that much more special with these gorgeous hints of glimmer to add the finishing touches to your party favours or wedding decorations!

Happy Celebrating

The Pink Frosting Party Team

xxx

Start with these gorgeous personalised princess party invitations… perfect for your little princess. You can even change the hair colour to match!

Your party decorations are an easy choice. Think big bright lanterns strung from tree to tree in your back yard, fluffy tissue paper pom poms hanging above a perfect candy buffet fit for your little princess!

Deciding what food to serve at a princess party is easy, think of all the delicious ways to incorporate pink into food. Pink lemonades served in vintage mini milk bottles, fairy floss in cotton candy and pastel purple and we cant forget fairy bread!

You cant go wrong with a candy buffet, with little treat boxes for the princess to fill up and take home as a party favours!

There is all the inspiration you need and more from Pink Frosting Party Supplies to create a magical day for your little princess!!

Happy Celebrating.

The Pink Frosting Party Team

xx

A great way of adding the uniqueness factor to your wedding day is by personalising to your individual style. Making sure you stay true to your couple style will really make a difference when it comes to the finishing touches of your wedding day. At the Pink Frosting Wedding Shop there is a gorgeous range of wedding favours that will add a touch of personality to your wedding.

Another way of adding your true style to your wedding day is by personalising your wedding bombonieres or wedding favours for your guests to take a little piece of you home at the end of the day. 2013 has seen unique wedding bombonieres really take off with bride and grooms really stepping up and creating some memorable and creative keep sakes for guests.

Wedding Themed Personalised Lollipops

Items such as candles, lollipops, vintage milk bottles all featuring a personalised message on a sticker design suited to your couple style have all been popular choices for the 2013 wedding year.

Mod Pattern Personalised Milk Bottles with Cap

Emerald Personalised Wedding Favour Votive Candles

Another way to add a unique feature to your wedding bombonieres is incorporating homemade goodies as a thank you present for guests to take home. Homemade jams, handmade soaps, delicious handmade chocolates, jars filled with the ingredients to make the perfect choc-chip cookies, mini homemade pies for a picnic themed wedding or even a signature drink made especially from the couple served in mini vintage milk bottles with a personalised sticker for guests to take home and enjoy!

Sweetie Pies Mini Pie Packaging Favour Kits (for 20 pies)

Your Wedding Bombonieres are a great way to show your creativity and really make them a unique favour for your guests to take home. Making it practical and something they will use in the future is a great starting point and adding the touches of your personal style will always create something magical.

Happy Celebrating!

The Pink Frosting Team xx

Wedding bomboniere are a gorgeous tradition where the bride and groom provide a small gift for their guests to take home in memory of your special day. It is also a way for the wedding couple to say thank you for coming and sharing in the celebrations.

At the Pink Frosting Wedding Shop we have a gorgeous and unique range of wedding bombonieres that is suited to any theme, colour, style and budget!

With thousands of wedding favours to choose from, Pink Frosting is renowned for its unique range of guest souvenirs, and this week we have some beautiful new wedding bomboniere and favours to introduce to you! These gorgeous gifts have just landed at Pink Frosting and here are just some of our faves:

Caribbean Blue Personalised Votive Candle Favours

With This Ring Keychain Wedding Favours in a Blue Gift Box

By The Shore Sand Dollar Coaster Favours

Mod Pattern Personalased Milk Bottles with Caps

Mr & Mrs Personalised Wedding Votive Candles

What are your favourite wedding bomboniere?  Traditional or modern?

Happy Celebrating!
The Pink Frosting Team x

INGREDIENTS

Butter cake
¾ cup sugar
1/3 cup water
125g butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs, separated
1½ cups self-raising flour, sifted
Chocolate glace icing
3 cups icing sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
60ml (1/3 cup) milk, approximately
1 cup coconut, approximately
Mock cream filling
2/3 cup jam
1/3 cup water
½ cup sugar
125g butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla

METHOD

Butter Cake: Combine sugar and water in pan, stir over heat until sugar is dissolved, bring to boil without stirring, remove from heat, cool to room temperature.
Beat butter, vanilla and egg yolks in small bowl with electric mixer until light and creamy, gradually add sugar syrup in a thin stream while mixer is operating. Transfer mixture to a larger basin, stir in flour all at once. Beat egg whites in small bowl with electric mixer until soft peaks form, fold lightly into cake mixture in 2 batches. Divide mixture between 2 well greased bar tins, (base measures 7cm x 25cm). Bake at 180°C for 30 minutes; turn onto wire rack to cool. When cold, spread Chocolate Glace Icing over top and sides of cakes; quickly sprinkle coconut over cakes before Icing is set. Cut piece from top of each cake, spread cavity with jam, fill with Mock Cream, replace top which has been cut in half lengthwise. Decorate with strawberries, if desired.
Chocolate Glace Icing: Sift icing sugar and cocoa into heatproof bowl, stir in enough milk to give thick paste. Stir Icing over hot water until spreadable, spread over one cake at a time. Sprinkle with coconut before icing the next cake; this Icing will set quickly.
Mock Cream Filling: Combine sugar and water in pan, stir over heat until sugar is dissolved, bring to boil without stirring, remove from heat, cool to room temperature. Beat butter and vanilla in small bowl with electric mixer until light and creamy, gradually add sugar syrup in a thin stream while mixer is operating; beat until fluffy.

To freeze: Cold uniced cakes can be frozen for up to 2 months. Icing and Cream are not suitable to freeze.

These make for the perfect dessert for an Australia Day Party!

Happy Baking!

The 2012/2013 Australian wedding seasons has kicked off and I am so excited to see a new and exciting set of colour palates and themes brides are trying out! One that has really caught my eye and I have fallen in love with is the idea of a Picnic Wedding. Summer is one of Australia’s most beautiful seasons and we love being outdoors! This charming, laid back and intimate theme has really taken off this wedding season and I have put together some inspiration and ideas on how to plan the prefect summer picnic wedding with some adorable and gorgeous extras from Pink Frosting.

Your invitations are the first part of the puzzle your guests see so why not make them special. Depending on your style there is a range of wedding invitations that suits the picnic theme, try these adorable Love Birds invitations in a range of different colours, or these fun and elegant Chalk Board invitations. If you’re going for a more vintage style picnic theme the Lace Invites in a range of colours will suit your wedding impeccably.

With a picnic wedding your ceremony and reception are most likely going to be outdoors, which gives you the opportunity to use Mother Nature’s resources and adding a touch of style to them. You colour pallet for an outdoor picnic theme begins with crisp whites, fresh greens, lemon yellows, vibrant reds any colour that just screams out summertime! Walk down the aisle to a row of white lace parasols or hang large tissue paper pom poms along the chairs down the aisle for a garden-fresh summer feeling.  I love the feeling you get when there are lanterns and pom poms hanging whimsically through a tree! They make for such a gorgeous addition to the scenery of being outdoors.

When it comes to the table settings, this is where you can start having a lot of fun with how you want to design them! For your centrepieces give your table that real country chic picnic feeling and use these large wooden woven picnic baskets filled with flowers, home-made treats, fresh fruit vegetables and bread, the choices are endless with this, they can also double as your table numbers for guests to find.

Continuing with your picnic outdoors wedding theme, send your guests home with wedding favours to match! I love the warmth these mini woven baskets give filled with scrumptious home-made cookies or anything that matches your picnic theme and they tie in perfectly with the centrepieces.

A picnic wedding benefits from the beauty of the outdoors, and with this the colours go to match, natural woods and leafy greens as well as red and white checks this country chic feeling will make for a cosy and memorable event.

This morning I discovered a gorgeous post by Mensaje en una Galleta showing their rainbow butterfly cookies, which are just divine!  I promised the Pink Frosting crew I would give these a go today and I made them (even hand-cut in a holiday kitchen with no cutters etc) – they look terrific!  Here’s the technique:

Firstly, follow my basic party biscuits recipe:

Ingredients

125g room temperature butter
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 egg at room temperature, beaten
2 cups of plain flour
4 tablespoons cornflour
1 teaspoon baking powder
a pinch of salt

Food colouring in the colours of your choice

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees c.
• Beat the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until they have creamed (become pale and creamy).
• Drop in the vanilla and the egg and beat until all mixed together.
• Stir in the sifted dry ingredients and once the batter has become stiff enough, take out of the bowl and knead together.
• Now, at this point, divide the mixture into the number of layers of colour you want.  So, if you want red, green, blue and yellow for a rainbow, divide the mix into four equal amounts and place each into different bowls.  Add the food colouring to each part to make the colour of your choice (you might even like to make variations of the same colour using different amounts of colour in each bowl).
• Mix in the colour using your hands (coverered in gloves of course!), then individually roll out the dough onto a lightly floured board or your kitchen bench to about 3-4mm thick.  Try to get the dough as flat as you can.  Many bakers use the trick of running the dough through a pasta machine to get the even thickness you see in shops.
• Use cookie cutters to cut your biscuits into the shapes for your cookies and layer the colours on top of one another to create the layered cookies.
• Place onto a greased baking tray lined with baking paper for about 12 minutes or until golden.  Keep a keen eye on the oven as they are cooking as they easily overcook if left in for a few minutes too long.
• Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Once completely cook, you can get to icing.

Here are some gorgeous examples by the experts over at my new blog crush Mensaje en una Galleta:

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

Out and about today, I suddenly had a hankering for an old fashioned ice cream choc top.  The kids adore sprinkles, so it dawned on me that we could attempt making choc top ice cream cones with sprinkles… well, the results were outstanding!  What a way to start the sugar-rush this Easter!

Makes 6 delicious ice cream cones.

Ingredients

300g good quality white chocolate

1/2 litre of good quality vanilla ice cream

6 flat bottom ice cream cones (unless you have a stand for traditional cones)

113g (4oz) sprinkles in any colour and shape you choose

Method

1. Melt the chocolate in a metal dish over a pot of boiling water on the stove.  Gently mix until the chocolate has melted and then set aside to cool slightly but not set.
2. While the chocolate is cooling slightly, place your sprinkles into a shallow bowl ready to coat your ice creams.
3. Take out the ice cream from the freezer, making sure it is very cold, and scoop into the tops of the ice cream cones.
4. One by one, coat the ice creams with the slighly cooled chocolate and immediately roll the chocolate in the sprinkles. 
5. Place cones onto a tray and freeze until you’re ready to serve.
6. Serve with napkins and plenty of smiles!

I adore this recipe for kids birthday parties, Easter by the pool and even dinner parties.  I’m thinking of trying this recipe with a dark chocolate coating and broken pieces of peanut brittle, which would make a delicious adult dinner party treat with a smooth Baileys.

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn