Gymnastics Cookies

Savanna and I were both super excited about the weather yesterday!  I know the 40's are still not warm, but it is crazy how warm it feels when you are used to the 20's.  Not only was it warmer, it was sunny so we could actually get out for a good walk :)  We have made the switch over to one nap which has been working good as long as we have a morning activity.  

I also wanted to share these gymnastics cookies I made for my niece, Monica's 5th birthday.  I wanted to work on them since I was not going to make her party AND my royal icing skills need some practice.  I was happy with the way they turned out, but I think I could still use some practice for more detailed designs.

Happy Weekend!

Cakes and Cupcakes

I cannot believe Christmas is in less than a week!  I had a few events that I never shared and wanted to show you :)

A first birthday for a little boy who loves dogs!

A baby shower for a soon to be baby girl.  The mom to be picked out this adorbale bedding that I used as inspiration for the cake. 

Thomas the Train cupcakes for a 3rd birthday!

Savanna's First 1st Birthday Party Part 2 and 12 month update!

I cannot believe Savanna is 1!!  Everyone tells you it goes fast and it really does.  The first 3 months feel long and then from month 6 on the time flew!  Savanna did have a ton of changes from month 11 to month 12, but of course there were still some developments.     

• Knows where her belly is
• When you ask if she wants you to take her coat off she will pull at the sleeves
• She pulls at her clothes to come off when we are running the bath
• She “brushes” her own hair
• If I have a necklace on she wants one on too
• She LOVES her books! Probably what she plays with the most.
• Plays with her dolls and pushes them around in her push toys 

Photo credit Raquel Bianca Creative (from her first birthday photos)

We had a small family party the weekend of Savanna's party and I wanted to share some photos with you from it!

Savanna is blessed to have 4 Great Grandparents!!

I thought this was a really unique and personalized gift and I wanted to share :)

For the desserts I made a small, simple soy free and dairy free smash cake for Savanna with one of Especially Paper's awesome banners.  I then made pumpkin cake pops, chocolate chip ganache cookies and an apple pie crumble.  

Savanna's First 1st Birthday Party!

As I previously mentioned we decided to split up friends and family for Savanna's 1st Birthday since we could not fit everyone inside.  We decided to have the friends party early so we could attempt to have it outside.  Luckily the weather cooperated for us and we had a nice day, it wasn't crazy sunny but it was a great temperature.  We had the party at an outdoor picnic area near one of the town parks.  It worked out great and we were very happy we did it there.  I ordered a full printable paper package from Little Birdie Prints on Etsy and was super happy with them. Kim was very responsive and easy to work with.  I used most of the package, the only things I did not use were the hats (Savanna hates anything on her head) and the thank yous (I already had personalized stationary for her and didn't think it was worth printing and buying envelopes).  I printed everything myself at home and it was super easy and I did not go through a crazy amount of ink.  I highly recommend if you want to add some fun custom detail to your party!

It was a late afternoon party so we decided to keep the food fairly simple.  We ordered sandwiches from a local deli and I made a pasta salad with broccoli and pine nuts and a mixed green salad with roasted butternut squash, walnuts, craisins and pumpkin seeds.  

Pumpkin Breads were the favors :)

Savanna had a blast playing in the ice and any water that had fallen....

For dessert, I of course had to go all out :)

I made chocolate chip ganache cookies, pumpkin cookies, chocolate cupcakes, pumpkin patch cake pops, and sour watermelons and pumpkins.  

Savanna had a personalized soy and dairy free pumpkin cake.  I took the fondant off before she dove in!

We cannot wait to celebrate again!

A Weekend filled with Birthdays!

We had a lot of birthdays to celebrate this weekend!  It started with this cake I made for one of our friend's daughter's family birthday party. Her favorite colors are purple and orange.  I ordered the cake bunting from Especially Paper and I loved the quality and how quick she was able to get it to me.  I will definitely be ordering again!

On Saturday we headed to Long Island for lunch to celebrate my Grandfather's 94th birthday.  Unfortunately, he ended up in the hospital (nothing major) and we didn't get to see him. We were still able to have a nice lunch with my parents and my dad's sister.  We then headed into the city and visited our friends Joe and Carol who recently had a little boy and they were celebrating Carol's birthday.  They have an amazing rooftop and it was the perfect evening for it :)

Lastly we headed over to my good friend Caitlin's 30th birthday.  Her husband organized a fabulous afternoon of sailing and friends for her.  We didn't make the sailing, but we were able to meet up with them for some cocktails before Savanna expired :)

Our last celebration was on Sunday. We had Chris's family over to celebrate his brother's 27th birthday! We watched the Giants lose again but enjoyed a yummy lunch and some cake pops! 

Unfortunately this picture didn't come out great and don't ask why Savanna is naked :)

Hope you are having a great Monday!

July Cakes

We have been enjoying some quality family time and have not been doing as many cakes, but I have two fun ones that I wanted to share with you today. Both were for little girls' 3rd birthdays. 

The first was a simple princess cake.  With this cake I did mini cupcakes with edible images of Disney Princesses (I was unable to get a picture of it all together).  

The second party was at Victorian Gardens so I did a carousel themed cake.  The adorable paper carousel was made by Oooh La La Paperie. 

We are enjoying this perfect weather and having fun cruising in central park this week.  

My nieces are visiting so we spent some time with them at my parents pool during the heat wave. We are excited to meet them at the Jersey Shore for a week on Friday!  They taught Savanna how to kiss it is super cute.

Hope you are having a good week and enjoying this lovely summer weather :) 

Zoe's Birthday Party!

Savanna's friend Zoe turn 1 a few weeks ago!  Unfortunately, my good friend Kristen's wedding was the same weekend so we had to miss the party.  Since we were unable to go to the party, I was excited that I could at least do the desserts.  Zoe's party was a farm animal theme and they even had a petting zoo there! Zoe's Mom and Dad went to HS with Chris.  They were a different year in school but last year we discovered that they live around the block from us which has been a lot of fun.  A girl from their HS has a beautiful photography company. She took all of the wonderful shots below.  You should check out the rest of the party here, along with with all of the other amazing work she does.  

Cow, Pig and Duck Fondant Cookies

Mini Animal Mixed Berry Pies

Zoe & 1 Cake Pops with mini cupcakes

I love this one of Zoe digging into her cake!

This is such a cute shot of all the other kids "helping" her :)

This is my favorite!

Little Miss Party Planner Events

I wanted to share some pretty amazing parties with you today.  Seri and Michelle over at Little Miss Party Planner, have been quite busy this spring and they have been keeping me busy as well :) I have highlighted their dessert tables here, but you should definitely head to their website to check all the details out!

I love all their parties, but the first may be current favorite, A Preppy Little First Birthday Party. They didn't do the typical large first birthday cake, instead they made a beautiful and personalized dessert table with a lot of little yummy treats.

Carrot Cake "Ice-Cream Cones"

Gold Painted Cake Pops

Don't you just love their gold spray painted Ball Jars!  I want these all over my home (when I have one :) )

I love these color me cookies from Eleni's , what a fun activity/favor for the kids at the party!

I will continue with First Birthday Parties and share this simple but beautiful first birthday party for a little Gabrielle.

Mazzy's Milk Bar was such a fun and unique theme for a 3rd birthday party and had so many amazing details!

How cute are the cow covers for the cake pops!

Cookie Pops!

Oreo Cookie Cupcakes

Next is a fun Poker themed party for an 8 year old boy.  Cupcakes with playing card toppers, playing card, heart and spade fondant cookies and a cake just for the birthday boy.

Along the same theme is a Las Vegas Party for a 50th Birthday Party.  I cannot take credit for this gorgeous cake! How amazing is it???  I did the Moustache Cake Pops, brownie oreo truffle mini cupcakes, playing card and chip cookies and cupcakes with the fun playing chip/photo toppers.

I am always in awe of their creative vase / centerpiece ideas.  

Lastly is a Baby Shower for their very own Michelle who is due in a few weeks.  I was honored to do the cake, some mini cupcakes and mini orange meringue sandwiches.

Memorial Day Recap and Drum Cakes

Hi!  As per usual, I am trying to catch up! I just realized I never wrote a 6 month update for Savanna so I will do a 6 and 7 month one next week :)  I know I keep saying this, but where does the time go??  After Kristen's shower the following weekend we had a lovely Mother's Day Weekend and the weekend following that I had Kristen's Bachelorette in Fort Lauderdale and then it was Memorial Day and we got back on Tuesday and I had to do a 1st birthday dessert table and the dessert table for Kristen's wedding in 3 1/2 days so now I am finally sitting down :)  

I wanted to start with sharing two Drum cakes I did in April and May. The first was a cake for a Fresh Beat Band theme party so I included the instruments from the other characters as well.  The second was for a little boys 1st birthday, I thought it was a unique and cute theme for a first birthday.  

I also wanted to share some pictures and details from our Memorial Day Trip.  For the last 4 years, Chris has spent Memorial Day studying for the CFA so we have not been able to really enjoy it.  I was really excited for this year, so we decided to spend some time down in Bethany Beach, Delaware where Chris's parents have a beach condo.  We were hoping since it was further south it would be nicer, but it ended up not really being a beach weekend.  His parents condo is in Sea Colony which is almost like a resort so we were saved with the indoor pool!  Savanna absolutely LOVED the indoor pool.  We have been doing swimming lessons for about 2 months now and I knew she enjoyed the water, but I think between her being older and spending even more time in the pool she just had a blast.  Chris's mom also got her a little pool that we filled with some water that she enjoyed.  Despite the bad weather it ended up being a good few days.  Although I will say babies are such creatures of habit, Savanna was a little cranky by the end and was so excited when she got home :) 

March Treats and Easter

We are super excited to be heading out to Chicago on Friday to visit my sister and nieces for Easter.  Since Savanna cannot color eggs or have an egg hunt this year I think it will be fun for her to watch her cousins. We stopped by the park yesterday (yay is spring finally here??) and she really enjoyed watching the kids play.  I think it will be fun for her cousins too since they will be able to interact with her more than when they were here in January (such a big difference from 2.5 months to 4.5 months).    

Today I wanted to share with you a cookie recipe that uses hard boiled egg yolks.  It would be great for your leftover easter eggs, but of course I could not seem to find the recipe anywhere this week.  Hopefully I will find it over the next year so I can share it next Easter.  So instead I am sharing some recent projects I have worked on :) 

These were for a dessert table Little Miss Party Planner put together for a 40th Birthday - check out there blog posting for all of the details from their fabulous party!

 

This was a birthday cake for a little girl who turned 6 and had a Ninjago themed party

These were for a Sweet 16 :)

I made a cake, lemon tarts, and glazed carrot cake cupcakes for a bunny themed baby shower.  The favors were "Its a Girl" Nail Polish with adorable bunny tags.  I matched the cake to the tags :)

Have a wonderful Holy Week and Easter!

Business Update and Some Recent Projects!

Providing innovative and tasty Kreations to our loyal customers has always been and will always be my passion, but being a mother has always been important to me as well.  In order to give each order the attention it deserves, and to be a great Mommy for Savanna, we have decided to evolve Kreated by K into a more customized/speciality business. We will continue to eagerly work on special occasion cakes, dessert tables and new products, but will be scaling back menu options and only taking a few orders a week to guarantee the quality you've come to expect from KbyK. To maximize our work with our loyal local customers, we'll no longer be accepting wholesale orders and will not be shipping outside of the NYC area. Kreated by K plans to focus on a limited number of exciting projects each week, so please place your orders as far in advance as possible. Of course, last minute orders will be welcomed whenever possible, just ask:)  Below are some pictures of projects I worked on this past month!

A Crawfish Pot for a guy from Louisiana

"Ready to Pop" baby shower

Bowling Party Cookies

Peter Pan Cake

November and December Cakes

Hope everyone is having a fabulous week. We are enjoying our time off over here.  Savanna is getting big fast, we were at the doctor this morning and she is over 11 lbs already!  It has been fun to watch her grow and learn. She has started to find her hands and learning how to smile and laugh which is the most fun.  She currently loves anything that has flashing lights and plays music as well as the mirror.  I will share some more pictures and updates of her next week, but for today I wanted to catch you up on some of my favorite Kreated by K cakes from November and December.  Hope you have a great 3 day weekend!

Fall Girls Parties!

I wanted to share some fun girl's cake's/parties that we did this past fall!

For Emily's birthday she had a 50's theme which I thought was so fun!  For their dessert table I made the cake, "ice-cream soda" cupcakes, record and poodle skirt cookies!

For Avery's birthday, I made a pinwheel cake!  I cannot take the credit for the idea though, her mom found the idea on pinterest and I loved it!

For Chloe's Birthday we made a ballet and flower themed cake for the little ballerina who turned 3 :)

This was for a little girl who wanted a "Fairy Princess Unicorn Cake"

This one was for a little girl who had her birthday in December!

Catching up!

Hope everyone is having a great week!  We celebrated our one year anniversary on Monday, I cannot believe it has been a year - time really does fly! I had saved the wedding cake topper I made for our cake pop tower and we had some on Monday night, it actually held up pretty good! 

Now that fall is officially here, I wanted to share the remainder of the summer projects I have not shown you!

This cake was for our good friend Jason's 30th Birthday Party!

An Animal Themed Baby Shower Cake

Alice in Wonderland Themed Cookies and Cupcakes

I Love NY Cupcakes!

A Pig Themed Birthday Cake :)

A Simple Bridal Shower Cake that was for one of my dear friends :)

Little Miss Party Planner Events

Hope everyone is having a fabulous August week!  I wanted to share some of the treats I made for the wonderful parties that Little Miss Party Planner put together this spring and summer.  I have included the links for each party so you can check out their entire spread and beautiful decorations!

For a 30th birthday party on a boat in April, I made mini lemon meringue tarts, white chocoalte covered oreos, cheesecake pops AND the cake.  The birthday boy loved Kite Surfing :) LMP did a such a great job with the nautical theme.

For a 40th brithday party I made some fun cupcakes with an old photo from when the birthday boy was little as well as some 40 cake pops!  Don't you just love the way LMP displays everything!?!

For Seri's (one of the LMP owners), son's bris she put together an amazing party only a week after she gave birth!  This had a fun "Got Milk" theme and she used some pictures that were captured in the hospital.  I made "Got Milk" cookies, cupcakes, cow cake pops and some white chocolate covered oreos with an L for Luke! 

 For a lovely rustic bridal shower, I made some chocolate espresso cookies, pie pops and purple glitter cake pops!

 

We both share the same wonderful and talented photographer, Raquel, from Raquel Bianca Creative, and Raquel's sisters asked LMP to plan her Bridal Shower.  LMP centered the theme around Long Beach Island, where they are getting married, but added in a lot of cool camera props as well :)  If you check out Raquel's website you can see her cool paper design that she did for her wedding. For the party I had the pleasure of making some mini pie tarts, chocolate espresso cookies and some really cool camera cookies!

  

Pippa's Dohl

One of my friends from JCrew threw her daugher an amazing Dohl, which is a Korean first birthday.  In regards to the scale and importance of the event, Korean first birthdays can be compared to a Bar/Bat Mitzvah or a Sweet Sixteen.  A large dessert table is one of the traditions in which I was excited to be apart of!  One of the other traditions is to lay items of signficance out and whichever one they pick is what determines their future.

The colors of the party were grey, pink and white and it was a bunny themed birthday since Pippa was born in the year of the Rabbit :)

This wonderful party was held at Bann Restaurant and all of the fabulous pictures below were captured by Mike Ngo Photography.

This is my favorite photo of the birthday girl!

Here she is determining her future!

A Bunny Cake Pop and Cupcake Tower

My Bunny Birthday Cake!

April and May Favorites!

I have been super behind in keeping you up to date with my projects so wanted to get you caught up!  I have been doing a lot more custom cakes which has been a lot of fun!  Hope you enjoy!  

A Zebra Cake with a Hot Pink Princess Crown

This was one of my favorites!  The birthday party was an Under the Sea theme at an Aquarium in Riverhead Long Island

A Simple and Pretty Cake for a Bridal Shower with Bow Cookies as Favors!

Hungry Hungry Caterpillar Cupcakes and Cake Pops!

A Baby Shower Stroller Cake that matched the invitation

I love getting inspiration from the invitations - this Sports Cake for a 2 year old boy also matched the invitation

Another Animal themed Party Cake!

Girly themed Cupcakes

A Girly Elmo Party!

I would say Elmo and Sesame Street are the most popularly requested theme for children's parties.  I had fun doing a girly version for an Elmo Party this past weekend.  They had a fun pizza party and they ordered these adorable centerpieces for the party from which I drew some inspiration from!  

March Favorites!

Hi!

Sorry I have been so MIA, it has been quite busy around here which has been great! I wanted to share some of my favorite March Projects with you :)

 "Under the Sea" Cake Pops in flower boxes for a Sweet 16

White Chocolate Covered Oreos with Lemon Lime Pop Rocks that were for Little Miss Party Planner's amazing Pure Nail Ice Party (see more from the party here)

A new cake for my menu!  Coconut Cake!

A Train Cake for Jack's 1st Birthday!

A girly Baptism Cake

A Totoro Cake!

Milk and Cookies Baby Shower Cake

A customer was celebrating a year after his heart surgery!

February Fun!

February was an exciting month filled with a lot of small custom projects.  I have become obsessed with instagram! I have really enjoyed capturing all of the projects with it, so I wanted to share them with you here!  

Our wonderful wedding photographer, Maggie Harkov, posted some pictures from our wedding and I wanted to share those with you as well.  You can see them in her most recent blog :)

Minnie Mouse Cake Pops and Mini Cupcakes

"Cute as a Button" Baby Shower Cake

Blackberry Cake

Present Cake Pop

Valentine's Cookie Cake

Custom Valentine's Cake Pop Boxes

Abby Cadabby Cake Pops

Chinese New Year Cupcakes

Simple Football First Birthday Cake

Favors for a Twins Milk and Cookies Baby Shower