A little whimsy, pretty colors and some very special sweets make up our garden party dessert table. We captured the essence of spring with blooming flower sugar cookies, cake pops and chocolate covered Oreo's. Some special display pieces were used turning rustic pieces along with things we already had into something new. We hope you enjoy wandering through our display and discover something that you might want to incorporate or make for your next party or dessert table.
We partnered with some very special makers to bring you this pretty display. Their lovely items inspired the color scheme as well as the desserts we made. The painted and sprinkles ball jars from Unpolished and Pretty set the tone for what we created. Savanah makes a variety of home decor items. Her decorated ball jars are a favorite! We used 3 different styles of her jars in our display. If you are looking for unique and pretty items for your next event or even your home be sure to check our her shop as many of her items can be customized!
Our garden party dessert table showcases a variety of sweets that can be made ahead of time saving your time and maybe even a little stress right before your event! We made chocolate covered pretzel rods that are decorated with our Sprinklefetti™ Pretty Spring Sprinkle Mix. To make the pretzels a little more special we made white chocolate bow with our mini bow chocolate mold. Unpolished and Pretty's mint and sprinkle rimmed jar worked perfectly for holding our chocolate covered pretzels. Along side the pretzel jar are mini cocoa rice crispy cups made in our coral polka dot baking cups and mint green polka dot baking cups. Sweet little bow cupcake picks by Olive Our Love Handmade finished them off perfectly. Kristen makes beautiful felt creations and the cupcake picks inspired the chocolate bows we added to the pretzels!
Some other sweets we made ahead of time are speckled chocolate eggs painted with pastel blue, pastel green and white edible art paint. They transformed white candy coated chocolate eggs into Robin's eggs. We placed some of the candy eggs in mini light purple baking cups and mini yellow baking cups. These are the perfect size for holding candies for party favors!
Chocolate covered Oreos are favorite sweet to make and can be made ahead of time. Our petite four chocolate mold is just the right size for making mini chocolate covered Oreos. We turned them into flowers by placing them inside mini cupcake liners. Use two liners, one turned inside out then placed in another mini liner to give you vibrant color on the inside and outside. The leaves were cut out of textured paper and placed under the cupcake liner to complete the flower look. Both sizes of our chocolate covered Oreos are painted with a variety of the edible art paints we carry to add a pop of color! We added sugar daisy flowers to the top of the full size Oreo's. These were perfect to scatter around the table top and became edible decor.
When deciding what to make for our garden party dessert table we knew flowers would be showcased. We wanted to make flower cake pops but making them by hand would probably not give us the look we were after. The flower mold from My Little Cake Pop worked great and created consistent shaped flowers! They have cake pop molds in all kinds of shapes to help your create beautiful cake pops in no time! We used our clear acrylic cake pops sticks and decorated them with layers of chocolate to create a 3D look to the front of the flower. Then they we dusted the surface with TruColor White Pearl Food Paint Powder to give it a slight shimmer. The inner petals were painted with more of the TruColor paint powders in shades of coral, mint and yellow. We'll share in another post how we made them.
One thing we like to do when creating a dessert table is to use unexpected objects to create interest to the display. The green frame was just perfect to accent our barn door backdrop. We glued some pretty butterflies in the center to complete the look. Mini terracotta flower pots were used for our Robin's nest rice crispy treat cups and for the flower cake pops. We placed purple tulip cupcake wrappers inside each of the cups before filling with sweet treats. We found a small wooden chest and the drawers were the perfect size to place the flower sugar cookies made by Sullivan Bakehouse! Chelsey's cookies are a work of art and taste delicious!
Another thing you can do to save on time, add some variety to your dessert table and support another sweet maker is to purchase some specialty items for your dessert table. Sullivan Bakehouse specializes in making beautifully designed sugar cookies. Be sure to stop by their Instagram page where they have friday bake sales! Chelsey's cookies were a great addition to our display and were made using our daisy flower cookie cutters set and are decorated in chocolate not icing! She matched the colors to our garden party perfectly! Each of the flowers were finished by adding our Pretty Spring Nonpareils to the center. Some of the cookies were tucked in the drawers of the chest while others were placed in the painted short ball jar by Unpolished and Pretty. A match made in heaven. The "cookie jar" would make a great take home favor or gift for someone!
To me springtime means gardens coming back to life, flowers in bloom and birds returning to build their nests and to lay their eggs. This was the perfect inspiration for the final piece of our display, the cake. We made a small tiered rice crispy treat cake and topped it with our edible bird's nest cake topper. The nest is filled with more of our painted chocolate eggs and a tiny bird. Under the nest we piped frosting leaves and allowed them to set before dusting them with TruColor Spring Green Shine Food Paint Powder and TruColor Turquoise Shine Food Paint Powder to give the leaves more dimension and shimmer. There was a little space around the cake and the top of the cake stand so we added more of the chocolate covered chow mein noodles and that completed our rustic spring birds nest cake.
We hope you enjoyed looking around our whimsical garden party dessert table! We love creating sweet displays that might help to inspire your next dessert or dessert table!
To thank you for taking a look at our display we've partnered with the other wonderful makers featured to bring you a fun giveaway! You have a chance to win a gift set from us including the sprinklefetti pretty spring sprinkles, purple tulip cupcake wrappers, a variety of baking cups, mini bow candy mold and clear cake pop sticks, a limited edition spring sprinkle jar from Unpolished and Pretty, a set of daisy flower sugar cookies by Sullivan Bakehouse, a set of cake pop molds by My Little Cake Pop and a set of felt bow cupcake toppers by Olive Our Love Handmade.
Giveaway #1: Comment here on this post with what your favorite parts of our display is. That's it! Giveaway runs now through Sunday May 22, 2016 at midnight (est). We will randomly select a winner from the comments entered on this post. Winners will be notified by email by Tuesday night and have 24 hours to respond or we will select another winner. Open to USA residents only.
Want a second chance to win the same prize pack? Follow us on Instagram @bakerspartyshop. Sometime this week we will announce a second giveaway with the same awesome prize pack on our Instagram page!
Until next time sweet friends!
Esther & Shauna
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I honestly just love the whole thing! This time if year is just swimming with amazing opportunity for a dessert bar like this! From my baby girl’s first birthday and my nieces first birthday (which is also MY birthday!) to family reunions and BBQ’s. The colors just pop and the decorated mason jars are amazing! I think my favorite part may just be the adorable chocolate covered pretzels, though. Those bows? Love!!
I lobe the cake ?
It’s so hard to choose just one thing! I love the short painted Ball jar and I love the dotted cupcake liners. I love how it all looks together! I adore party stuff and setting up pretty party displays and tables. :)
Those cookies are beautiful
How to choose just one piece?? I love it all! I love the vibrant colors and all the sprinkles!! My favorite would probably be how you used something ordinary (cupcake liners) and transformed it into an easy decoration!
I can’t pick one thing! The whole display is so pretty and looks perfect for spring!
I love the bright, cheerful color combinations on this display and the mason jar floral arrangement is amazing! Love the whole setup!
Love all of the pastels and little touches that pull everything together! Absolutely gorgeous
Everything is so beautiful in your display! In love with the flower cake pops…and everything sprinkle covered!
I loved pretty much everything!! It was quite inspiring! However, since my daughter does competitive cheer, anything with bows are my favorite!!!!
I love how you displayed the cookies in those little drawers. I’m always looking for creative ways to show off beautiful cookies on my dessert tables.
How do I pick just 1?! I love it all!! Love the sprinkles on the pretzel rods! And the rice Krispy treat cake! Love it ALL.
Those gorgeous cookies from Sullivan bake house are my favorite! :)
The entire set up is absolutely beautiful!! But those pretzels covered in the sprinkles are so perfect!!
I love how colorful this it. Not only does it say Spring. It also says party.
The whole party is amazingly sweet!! I am in LOVE with those sprinkles! Sprinkles on everything!!!! :)
I am loving the sprinkles on the mason jars! They just add to the fantastic color scheme :) But I can’t pick just one thing I love bc its all just perfectly displayed!
Love the flower cake pops! But everything looks awesome. Gonna try to make flower cake pops for niece’s birthday. Thanks for the idea.
I love the colors! Especially the flower cake pop idea! It’s unique and adorable!!!
Everything is so adorable! I especially loved the flower cake pops though. They are so cute.
I love everything!! The whole set up is so adorable but if I had to choose a favorite it would be the flower cake pops absolutely gorgeous!!!
I must say…the entire display is absolutely stunning! I took some time to try to pick a favorite, I didn’t think I could, but, I kept coming back to the flower sugar cookies in the small jars!! Well done ladies!!!!
Love the Sugar Cookies — so cute! And those chocolate dipped pretzels are so fun for the season!!
I love the whole display the Oreos are so cute ???
Love the chocolate covered mini Oreos turned into flowers. They look perfect!
My favorite is the flower mold cake pops!
I Love everything about the display! The mason jars dipped in sprinkles has to be my favorite, very cute idea! Everything matches perfectly! I will have to use some of these ideas on my next dessert table!
This the perfect set-up for the girly girl in everyone! I love the chocolate covered Oreos the best. Such a sweet touch with the flowers on top :)
I just love the fun spring colors and the cookies. I also love the cupcake holders. Ok I just love this whole display!!
I love the bird nest. Great party theme!
The Edible rice crispie treat cake topper is so adorable!
Wow gorgeous! I love everything but especially the flower cake pops and cute little bow toppers!
Love love the Rice Krispie cake ? And the pretzel rods. Wow such a beautiful display of sprinkles.
I love everything! But I especially love the Ball jar filled with those pretty flower cookies!
I love everything you have displayed here. The sprinkle pretzel rods are so pretty. All the colors are so cheery! Delicious and beautiful display.
I love the sprinkle pretzel rods and the awesome Ball jars!! Everything looks beautiful!
I love the bright, cheery color palette! And how you refurbished found items to use in decorating:)
This is such a sweet set-up! I loved the sprinkle-dipped Mason Jars and this is coming from a girl that ALWAYS uses glitter ;) So cute and fun; I love it!!!
Wow! It is all so pretty! I love all of the sprinkles and pops of color using the baking cups! So sweet and fun!
I love all the colors! You’ve featured so many of my favorite goodies (chocolate-dipped pretzel, sugar cookies, rice crispy treats, etc), I can’t name just one favorite. I like butterflies, bows, and flowers, too—the display is lovely.
Umm EVERYTHING! But simplicity is my favorite. I love the easy pretzel sticks. That bow just makes them pop. And it’s so easy with the bow molds!!! Love this page, love the creativity and I LOVE how convenient it is for me to bring my creations to a reality with the tools you provide. THANK YOU BAKERS PARTY SHOP!
-a happy baker.
Wow, what’s not to love about this adorable display. I adore the painted mason jars coated with sprinkles! I definitely need to make those!
I like the flower cookies!
It’s all awesome, but I really like the flower cutout cookies in the small jars! Anything in canning jars is super cute I think. :)
This dessert party table is so inspiring!! So many clever goodies displayed!! What a wondrous idea to do for an end of the year party or graduation or best yet, Sweet 16 birthday party!!
My favorite are the chocolate covered mini Oreos! Super cute and very elegant looking with the paint and wrapper! Love
The birds nest is amazing! I also love all of the colors from the cookies to the cup cake liners!
I love Chelseys sugar cookies using your daisy flower cookie cutters set and how she used the Spring Nonpareils as the finishing touch to them! I’d thinking of making these for my nieces school fair bake walk game!
Love, love, love those dipped pretzels – so cute and festive! ❤️
The flower cookies with spring nonpareils as their centers are adorable . I liked the look – I really didn’t think to add those as the centers ! I always use a different color frosting or gel in cookie centers ! They would also look cute as a cookie bouquet on sticks !
The chocolate-dipped pretzels are so festive! And so versitile for any party theme.
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