Real Festa: Fire Truck and Stars Birthday Party

Another Festa to share:

This time we celebrated Tomas 3rd birthday with a Fire Truck and Stars Theme party. The big event took place in a local Fire Station. We had the opportunity to enjoy a tour of the Station, a presentation of how the fire men get ready for a call. The kids climbed the trucks and spent some time with the braves firemen. It was fun for the kids and for the parents, too.

I created a dessert table inspired in a vintage fire truck and stars. I included cupcakes, chocolate cake, cups of fruit, cookies on a stick and some candies all using the matching colors: red, beige and brown.

The guest tables where decorated with some wooden cars holding balloons on paper stars .

Congratutalions to Tomas' parents, Fernanda and Josh. The party was fun fun. Good job.

Table decor

Dessert Table

Cookies and Thank you favors

Real Festa: Elmo's birthday Party

A good friend of mine, AnaLya, asked me for a dessert table for her son Nicolas's 2nd birthday celebration.

It was a great party. Kids had a blast. They enjoyed jumping in the bouncy castle, decorating cookies, playing games and enjoyed the puppet show.

Congratulations AnaLya and Nicolas, the celebrations was great and of course, thank you for letting Festa be part of it.

I chose red and aqua colors to match the "Elmo" theme and style a small table with some treats: small cake for the candle, cupcakes, krispies, m&m's and pretzels.

Vanilla Cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.

M&M's

Pretzels

Krispies Treats

Lollipop tree

Cake

Kid's table

Cookies decorated by the guests using marshmallows, Oreo cookies,

chocolate raisins and red frosting.

Lunch boxes

Cake balls

I have been making tons of cake balls for different events and I have heard many times, what is a cake ball? For those who haven't had the change to taste one, you are missing something!

Cake balls are bite-size bits of moist cake blended with frosting and cover with candy melt or chocolate bark. It is a twist on cupcakes and an excellent alternative for a dessert. They are beautiful, they are delicious, they are just IN. You can make them in different flavors, shapes, colors and designs. They look pretty, but they taste better!

Baby Shower

Kids bouquet

Birthday Party

Halloween

Kids

Teacher's gift

Thanksgiving

Birthday cupcake

A special cupcake for grandma Aida.

Have a Happy Birthday!

Tres leches cupcakes

I am always craving something. This time a "Pastel de las tres Leches " (three milk cake). This is one of my favorite cakes. It is also very popular in Mexico.

I decided to make only half the recipe (so, I don't eat all) and with a little twist, I made instead of one cake bunch of cupcakes. I love mine very moist. You will see in the pictures how the milks come out the bread. I topped them with homemade whip cream and pieces of mango. I know they loaded with calories, but they were just really GOOD.

Piercing cupcake with fork

Pouring the milks

Milks coming out...

more cupcakes

Wedding favors

I styled some Thank you Favors for a wedding in Spain. I have few pictures to share with you.

White porcelain tea bag holder in teapot shape with a tea bag and a spoon.

Little glass jars filled with special edition of dark chocolate M&M's (burgandy and dark brown colors)

Vanilla candle in a mini wine glass

Chloe's 4th birthday

Our family from Belgium visited us in DC two weeks ago and on that weekend our niece, Chloe, was celebrating her 4ht birthday. I jumped on the opportunity to celebrate with her and make her feel special. By the way, she is an adorable girl.

I styled a birthday table using pink and blue colors. I baked a fun cake (three different color layers) and chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. I arranged some candy treats and snacks . I set a pretty table for the kids and of course we had favor bags full of fun stuff. My two kids and Chloe enjoyed every single detail it was on the table. They cut and served themselves the cake, they tried and destroyed everything. It was just FUN!

Banner made with different pink ribbon (left overs from other projects)


Bottom candy in top favor boxes


Fun cake


Blue, white and pink layers.


Chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting


Rice crispies mini squares



Kids' table





Favor bags



& the birthday girl