Bridal Shower Dessert Table

I offered to help throw a bridal shower for Midge (friend and scrumpdilly reader). My main task was the dessert table. Bake, bake, bake, I did for over 14 hours.

72 cookies for gift bags (lemon butter cookies, molasses cookies, and swirled sugar cookies)
60 cookies for cookie dish (molasses cookies and swirled sugar cookies)
54 cupcakes (chocolate with vanilla buttercream frosting lined with blue sugar, lemon with lemon buttercream frosting and raspberry fruit gem)

2 vegetarians
1 vegan (me)
21 omnivores who didn’t know the difference; all goods were a huge hit!

I had a great time baking. And an even better time reflecting on it afterwards.

Ba-jeezum! I did a ton of birthday baking from mid-June ’til now. From the Severed Unicorn Head Superstore birthday cuppers (post below) to all the human birthdays, I may as well have climbed into the oven myself, just like Hansel and Gretel. Luckily, for all involved, I kept my oven playtime to me staying on the outside.

“Thin Mint” Cookies

Sugar-Crusted Shortbread Cookies

Lime-Coconut Cupcakes

Tiramisu Cupcakes

Thanks to the cookie testing I’m doing, I had some pretty gourmet-looking cookies to give away. Cookie tray worthy. I had some damn tasty cupcakes in there, too. The Tiramisu cuppers ended up kind of ugly, but boy, did they taste like a little bit of paradise. Too bad I have to help eat some of those. You know, before they “go”.

Birthday-like cupcakes for the Severed Unicorn Head Superstore art opening

When my friends hired me (read: they asked; I said yes) to make cupcakes for their art opening, this is the guidance they gave, “It’s a birthday party. So something birthday is good.”

So I did some math. Severed unicorn heads + birthday parties = colors. Lots of colors. So that’s what I went with.

Ingredients for colorful, birthday-looking cupcakes for a Severed Unicorn Head Superstore party

Basic vanilla cupcakes from VCTOTW
Basic chocolate cupcakes from VCTOTW
Vanilla buttercream frosting from VCTOTW
Natural food dye for pink coloring
Sprinkles
Trader Joe’s Fruit Gels, halved