Wedding Shower: Orange and Green Cupcakes and Cookies

Here are some pictures from the wedding shower I just helped throw for one of my best friends! We have known each other since my freshman year of college, and I am so excited to be celebrating her wedding day with her!

The colors for the wedding are green and orange, so I had to make sure that the cupcakes and favors (decorated sugar cookies) fit right in!

I decorated the cupcakes with buttercream frosting tinted with Wilton's leaf green coloring. I used a medium sized star tip to decorate. Then I topped each cupcake with a simple orange flower that I pipped using orange tinted royal icing.

I felt like there were cupcakes everywhere in my kitchen that day!!!

The favors were simple sugar cookies decorated to again match the green and orange theme.

Again, I felt like my kitchen was taken over! But these cookies were really simple. I used royal icing to pipe a boarder on the edges of the cookies and a simple sugar cookie frosting to fill in the rest. The white flowers in the middle were also made by pipping royal icing.

All in all the shower was a success and everyone loved the treats! I can't wait to celebrate with the bride and groom at the wedding!

Simple DIY Cupcake Stand

My friend is getting married! And we just threw her a lovely shower to celebrate. I was put in charge of the desserts and favors.

To give the dessert table just a little some extra, I decied to make matching cake stands using the wedding colors (green and orange).

The project was simple, I purchased two chargers (one round and one square) and a bud vase from Michaels and then used a strong adhesive to bond them together!

In total, this project cost $6 for each stand! So simple and it really added something to the overall presentation.

Wedding Shower Cookies

One of my sisters got married this past summer and for one of her showers, my other sister and I made these cookies. I can't take any of the credit, my sister came up with the idea and I just helped execute, but they turned out so cute that I needed to share!!!

We tried to make a cake too....it fell apart....I mean literally fell apart.........don't know where we went wrong........