Retro Baby Shower

Holy cuteness, Batman!  One of my favorite clients requested this fun and cheery dessert table for a friend's baby shower and this is what we came up with.  When we initially consulted there were a lot of disparate elements discussed: pin up, rockabilly, retro, nautical, cherries, kewpie dolls, polka dots and sparrows.  I was a little nervous about how to meld all of these elements so I wound up paring down and really focusing on kewpies, polka dots and nautical elements.  Here are the super sweet results.  Enjoy!

Fan background - sometimes you just KNOW you will "use it someday," as was the case with these polka dot beauties from the 99 Cent Store.  I found them in February (a Valentine's Day Special) and finally got to use them in June!  Totally worth the wait.

Cupcake liner centers.

Vintage baby carriage filled with chocolate kisses.

Cinnamon Buns in the Oven.

Baby Powder Donuts.

Chocolate chip cookie tower.

Cherry bomb cupcakes.

So cute!

The hostess requested a ruffle cake.

Pints of popcorn.

Operation Cookie

Sometimes the best cure for burn out is to just play.  I've been so busy lately with cookie orders and party planning (not complaining, I swear), that it's started to feel a little bit like a grind with little time to enjoy my family.  This week I had some downtime and spent it not at the spa, but doing more cookies.  Well, one monster cookie to be exact.  

I'd had this idea of an Operation inspired cookie for awhile, but wasn't sure how exactly to go about it.  I started out with a huge cookie - like 7x12" the biggest one to come out of our oven yet.  I wanted the game pieces to be moveable, but wasn't sure exactly how to go about it.  Pipe them on mini cookies, perhaps?  I didn't want the cookies covering up the red openings so I ultimately just piped the shapes in royal icing on a sheet of wax paper and allowed them to dry before peeling them off.  They're way more delicate this way, but it was the exact look I was going for. Loving this blast from the past and the newest member of our Play With Your Food movement.  Plenty of detail pics ahead.  Enjoy!

The set.

Pieces in place - and no annoying buzzer!

Tweezer detail.

Funny bone.

Writer's cramp!