Oktoberfest in Havre de Grace Maryland

It has been quite some time since I updated the blog but with the move to Havre de Grace this past year we have been quite busy. I am going to try to update more frequently now that we are settled into our new space. 

With that being said I wanted to update everyone on a fun event going on here in town.  This weekend at Hutchins Park. Havre de Grace will be celebrating Oktoberfest with German beer, wine, music and lots of fun for the whole family. 

The event will run from 2-7pm in the park and will feature the Bavarian dance group of the Delaware Saengerbund along with and many other merchants selling great items. 

We will have a booth set up in the kids zone selling our paint your own sugar cookies, along with lots of other sweets including cake pops, chocolate covered pretzels and chocolate chip cookies. 

The weather is supposed to be great for this Saturday 10/15/16 and there should be a lot of fun and festivities for all ages. 

Don't forget to stop in downtown and visit all the local shops and start some Christmas shopping early. Look forward to seeing everyone this weekend. Hope you can make it out! 

Cameron's Elephant Themed First Birthday

I wanted to share this super sweet elephant themed birthday party. The party was for Amber's second son Cameron's first birthday! if you have been following the blog for any amount of time you will know that I have made all of Amber's first sons cakes and so the tradition continues and I could not be happy to be a part of it!

Amber wanted an elephant themed party in light blue, gray and white. She picked the desserts she wanted and allowed me to decorate them in the corresponding theme. I also made the backdrop and hanging tassels for the table.

The cake was buttercream with an edible mini elephant on top.

I made a set of cookies to match the theme.

Cupcakes were made by Amber with cute elephant toppers!

 Other desserts included cake pops, raspberry and pineapple cheesecakes and chocolate covered pretzels. 

Amber always does a fabulous job decorating and adding special touches to her kids parties!

  Happy family!

Happy Birthday Cameron! I hope it was a special one for you! Special thanks to Amber for the pictures and  for letting me be a part of his little mans day!

Mini edible taco cookies tutorial

So I'm back to show you my how to make cute taco cookies for your very own Dragons Love Tacos party. These cookies are so cute and tasty and all the kids will love them. [Buy the Book] If you are planning your own Dragons Love Tacos party. To check out more great party ideas check out my guest post on Spaceships and Laser Beams.

So first up you will need vanilla flavored and regular Oreo cookies, hot tamales, shredded coconut, chocolate buttercream, and orange flavored tootsie rolls. First take your regular Oreos and grind them up in a food processor. Then add the ground Oreos to a small amount of chocolate buttercream to make taco meat. Then take green food coloring and add it to your coconut to make lettuce. Next, take your orange tootsie rolls and shred them through a cheese grater to make cheese. Lastly, cut the ends of the hot tamales to make tomatoes. 

 Now that you have all the fixings you need for tacos it’s time to make the taco shells. First, pull apart the vanilla Oreos and scrap out the filling. Then you will need to cut a small portion of the end of each Oreo so that it will stand upright. Once you have completed preparing all of your taco shells you are ready to assembly your tacos. Remember for each Oreo you have you can make one taco.
Start with a line of chocolate buttercream towards the bottom of the taco where you made the knife cut. Then add the other side of the taco shell (cookie) against the buttercream line. Once you have both ends together the buttercream should hold them together upright. Make sure that you put the writing on the Oreos to the inside of the tacos so you don’t see the writing when the tacos are assembled.

Once you have your taco shells assembled you can add all of your fillings to complete your mini tacos. Start with the Oreo “taco meat” and make sure you get the Oreos to stick to the buttercream line you added previously. After the “taco meat” is added then add some shredded coconut lettuce on top. Complete each taco with shredded Tootsie roll cheese and two or three hot tamales.  Then just repeat until you have as many mini tacos as you want for your party. 

There you go super cute edible mini tacos for your Dragons Love Tacos party or for your very own Mexican fiesta. Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial and stay tuned for another great gender reveal party I have to share with you guys.

Dragons Love Tacos Third Birthday

So this year for my nephew Owen's third birthday he decided he wanted a party based on his favorite book right now which is Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin. This is a super cute book about dragons that love tacos, so if you want to lure dragons to your party better serve tacos, but better watch out for that spicy salsa. I decided to use the cover art dragon for the cake but made him green instead of red because that is Owen's favorite color. Of course as with every cake we make for Owen it has to be special so we decided to make this dragon smoke because he had to much spicy salsa at this party. The smoking dragon was a big hit with all the kids. I also included sugar cookie "chips" with fruit "salsa" and dragon feet cookies. Hope you enjoy the party this year. If you missed last years party be sure to check it out here.

 

 

We decided on less desserts this year and focused more on the dragon cake. I think it turned out really well and Owen loved it!

The tacos are made from Oreo cookies. I will be sharing a tutorial on how to make them in the near future.

Of course if we wanted to lure dragons to the party we had to have a taco bar!

Time to break open the dragon pinata!

This was a favorite activity!

Too much spicy salsa for this dragon!

 Making the dragon smoke was a little tricky to figure out but we managed to pull it off and have more knowledge moving forward for our next smoking cake! Happy Birthday Owen! I hope you loved your cake and had a blast at your party! You are turning out to be one awesome little dude and I love being here to see you grow up!

Here is a short video of the cake in action!

Little Southern Gentleman Shower Part 2

Ok so ready to get this party underway? If you missed part 1 you can check it out here. First up surprising Mom and Dad! Owen was so excited to surprise them with this party!

 

 

 

 

Isn't he the cutest! He will be a wonderful big brother!

    Time to make some bow ties! For the bow tie station I pre-cut all of the fabric needed to make the bow ties and then had step by step instructions on how to put it together. The best part was these were no sew bow ties so they were super simple to make but still ended up looking really cute.

 

Nicely done!

 

The onesie making station was a huge hit! I bought the stencils and paintbrushes for the onesies at Michael's and the fabric paint in the craft section at Walmart. I printed simple instructions for everyone to follow on how to make the onesies. The stencils are technically reusable if you wash them off and let them dry.

 

Everyone loved expressing their creative side and coming up with a cute design for Finn!

 

 

Look at all those fabulous designs Finn has to choose from and they were all made with love!

 

Time to open gifts!

 Time for desserts!

 

Ha ha the mustache cake pops crack me up!

 

Family excited to welcome baby number 2!

Hope you enjoyed this Little Southern Gentleman shower. If you are interested in throwing your own Little Man party please check out my Pinterest board for lots of great ideas and tutorials. I sure had a blast putting it together for my brother and sister-in-law. Can't wait to see little Finn grow into a little person and see his personality develop.