Years ago I was asked to cater and set a birthday party for two sweet cousins, celebrating their first birthday together. The theme: vintage circus. I’m sharing all the details for decorating, setting, labeling and catering the dessert table.
This party was a little different from the typical services I had provide in my catering days, since I was setting and styling a dessert table that included some food and treats that I didn’t make, alongside the items that I did make. Here I provided all of my plating and all of the custom labeling. I also provided the custom cake in the center, the two smash cakes and cupcakes including Strawberry Shortcake and Bananas Foster and ton of details to make this happen.
I really loved creating the custom paper products for the table. I tied in the color story of aqua, gold, red and white color scheme into each piece. I used vintage-inspired circus stationary, and added the pieces to the dessert-label tags. I created everything on my computer and printed the pieces at Staples, onto glossy cardstock. I cut paper triangles to add to some of the pedestals and added ribbon throughout the table.
The creative sisters and mothers of Cam and Jax were responsible for making the beautiful banners above and below the table. I was so happy to hang them.
I made mini cakes for the sweethearts, Cam and Jax, to really smash into. They were made with a simple Vanilla Velvet cake, covered and decorated with fluffy vanilla butter cream and some sprinkles.
As a special bonus, I made giant fondant lollipops for boys to take photos with, and to add a little something special to the table.
The fondant cake was made to be super-special centerpiece, and to feed the party-guests. I created the aqua color for the fondant and pieced the diamond, rectangle and triangle shapes together, to create a vintage feel to go perfectly with the elephant cake-topper.
