Kristen's Shower

One of my best and oldest friends is getting married in a month, I am very excited for her and cannot wait for her wedding!  Kristen and I sat next to each other in Kindergarten and have been friends ever since.  We played sports together growing up, she vacationed with my family and then we lived together in NYC after college.  We used to get quite the look when we went out together and we both introduced ourselves with the same name because we are also both petite with medium dark brown hair.  Her shower was this past weekend at the beautiful Glen Cove Mansion.  You can tell they do a lot of showers and weddings there; they were pros, super helpful and very prepared.  Savanna came with me for the first part of the shower and Chris was Mr. Flexible and came out to LI early and then picked her up (He also has her for his first solo weekend when I go to Florida for Kristen's Bachelorette).  Savanna enjoyed meeting some of my friends from High School that she hadn't met yet.  I was honored to do the dessert table for the shower and I wanted to share the details with you.  Per the bride's request I made a banana cake with chocolate filling, chocolate covered pretzels, mini mixed berry pies, cake pops and heart cookies.  Her bridesmaids dresses are a pretty coral from Jcrew so I did a color palette of light pink, coral and white.  

I hope everyone has a wonderful Mother's Day Weekend!

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!

  

A Garden Bridal Shower

I am honored to be the Maid (Matron :) ) of Honor in one of my best friend's from college weddings.  Caitlin's family is from Toronto, so I had the pleasure of planning her bridal shower in New York City.  Since most of her family lives in Toronto or other parts of the country it was a small, intimate shower.  I decided to have it at Bobo in their garden room.  Bobo did an amazing job, the food was incredible and the service was impeccable.  Grace, who is the event planner there, was extremely helpful throughout the whole process and our servers were over the top attentive without being over-bearing!  The garden room holds up to 35 people, but they have other rooms that hold more.  

Me, Caitlin and her Mom!

I decided to do the flowers myself (I found the idea on pinterest) and they were really easy and inexpensive DIY project.

I put together a small dessert table.  Caitlin hates chocolate so much I thought she was allergic to it the first few years that I knew her.  One of her favorite things to eat is a peanut butter and banana, sooooo I decided to make a banana cake with peanut butter buttercream for her. She loves candy so I made sure there was plenty of candy and had a few chocolate chip cookies for the other guests :)

As the favors I made mini peach pie jars since we have had such a great peach season!  

Isn't the space just great!

They had fresh fruit, croissants and banana bread on the tables.  We had burgers, a salad and two different egg dishes.  They continued to bring out fresh dishes :)

Bridal Showers

I wanted to share some pretty bridal showers I have done over the past few months.  I have been expanding and trying to learn some sugar flowers.  These are very basic for now, but glad I can offer them and will hopefully continue to teach myself some more :) 

I really love simple cakes with a pop of design (which here is the flowers)

This was a lovely shower hosted in a home in northern Westchester.  They were great and sent me a lot of pictures :)

The Whole Spread!

I did the desserts for the dessert table and they did a fabulous job putting it together.  There were a variety of mini sandwich cookies, berry pie bars, cupcakes, cakepops and mini peach and berry tarts!

This is not a great picture but I wanted to show you the cute cupcake designs upclose.  The bride to be just got a scooter and the invitation had a scooter and balloons on it so we matched it with the cupcakes.  

Look how beautiful the tables were and such cute favors!

These were cupcakes for a shower that I put their edible logo on

Another simple cake with some edible sunflowers (sorry also not a great picture!)

 Another simple yet elegant bridal shower cake with flowers :)

Cookie Place Cards

My cousin Christine is getting married this August and her Bridal Shower was this past weekend (Christine is on the left and her sister Jennifer is on the right).  

My Aunt asked if I could create something with cookies for the place cards.  My cousin loves sweets especially chocolate!  So I decided to make chocolate sandwich cookies with a nutella cream filling.  I placed the table number on the cookie and attached a tag with the person's name on it.  I was excited with how they came out!  

My cousin Liz has a baking business as well and my Aunt asked her to do cupcake bouquets for the centerpieces which came out fabulous.  She gave everyone cups and bags to take the cupackes home with them which I thought was very clever.  The cupcake fit perfectly, nice and snug.  I had placed mine in my bag and it didn't budge from the cup, it traveled really well!

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 Lovely Spring Bridal Shower

Two of our best friends are getting married this September, but unfortunately they are on the same day!  I am the matron of honor in one and Chris is a groomsman in the other.  Since I am very sad to be missing the one wedding, I was excited to be able to do the cake and favors for the bridal shower a few weeks ago! It was a fabulous day for a lovely outdoor spring shower.  The cake was red velvet the brides favorite! 

Of course I am not looking at the camera!

New York Magazine Wedding Event 2012 Photos!

The New York Magazine Wedding Event last week was fabulous, I met a ton of wonderful new brides, event planners, caterers, bloggers and photographers!  

I wanted to show you the dessert table I put together for it.  I had Raquel from Raquel Bianca Creative shoot my work for the event. Raquel has been my photographer and designer for over a year now, and takes all my site photography. I asbosultely love working with her!  First, she makes my work look incredible! She is also someone you can count on which is great.  I never send an email and have to wait days for her to respond, she is super reliable! I also love that she is always sending me ideas to help me grow my business which, is much appreciated when you have a small business.  

About four months ago she launched Raquel Bianca Creative, a photography & paper design company based here in New York. She shoots children & infants, portraits, fashion, engagement, food, events and more. She also designs invitations and created the paper tags you see on my wedding display. This aspect of her business is unique because she can shoot your photo, and then design the card or announcements that you send out to friends and family. 

Wedding cakes & some other pretty cakes

I wanted to share with you some of the small wedding cakes I have started to do.  At the moment I only do buttercream cakes.  I personally like them better because I believe the fondant takes away from the taste and quality of the cake (KbyK only promises to give you the best)!  I am excited to be doing another 3 tier wedding cake and entire dessert table this weekend.  Stay tuned for the photos!

This shower cake was for a wedding that will be in Costa Rica in February!

Small simple shower cakes

Dessert Table!

I had a lot of fun planning my first full dessert table!  It was for a unique little bridal shower.  There was dessert and champagne and a suprise treat from a guest speaker.  I thought the guest speaker was such a great idea from the host!  I decided to try and keep summer alive with sunflowers :)

PS Check out the new Fall Menu!

My New Stand!

I am in love with the new stand I invested in to display my treats. It is so versatile, it can hold cake pops standing straight up and when you flip it over there are no holes and you can use it for cupcakes, cookies, and cakes!  It also can be altered to use it in 5 different sizes!  I first used it for the Lovely event and put both cake pops and cupcakes on it.  Below are some other recent events I have used it for :)

PS - These pops went with the cupcakes in the above photo - I am also excited about my new flower punch to make tags! 

Towers

It has been exciting to get some fun new projects, I wanted to share some cupcake/cake pop towers I did recently!  

The first was for a Bridal Shower, it had a zebra and hot pink theme and they held it at an adorable little restaurant in Brooklyn called the Chestnut.  I made sure the bride got her own special red velvet cupcake!

The second one was for a candy land Bat Mitzvah!  They had the most amazing centerpieces and name cards for the children!  I made 3 towers that incorporated her colors and candy from the game!  There were lollipops, gumdrops, candy canes, licorice, gingerbread-men, peanut brittle and a crown for the ice princess!

Custom Treats

Almost all of my treats are personalized for each event and made to match the theme of the occasion that you are celebrating.  Never hesitate to ask for something that I have never done before; I will always make a make a sample first and if you are close by you can come taste :)

Baby Shower K-Pops - It's a girl! 

Can't make your friend's big birthday - Send them a box of treats!

Bridal Shower Pops to match the wedding colors that include the brides initial

Gettysburg Women's Lacrosse Team made it the National Championship and these k-pops gave them some fuel to play - THEY WON!

Custom K-Pops

I love personalizing a K-Pops for events!  The first picture was a favor for a baby shower,  the colors match the baby's nursery :)  I ordered the stickers from Beau Coup to coordinate with theme, but I also do custom stamped tags.  Additionally, I have started to work with passion for details and they developed these adorable favor boxes for my K-pops.  They are completely customized and can be used as a place seating as well!

Kelly's Bridal Shower

For Kelly's shower I did two 8 inch cakes, one carrot with cream cheese frosting and the second vanilla with chocolate ganache and a chocolate espresso buttercream, and they were decorated with fresh gerber daisies. 

Included was a pot of red velvet flower shaped k-pops!