Chocolate covered Oreos look like something you'd order from your favorite Etsy seller. They're also shockingly easy to make at home. Baby B and I made our first batch for our back to school party. I used the same method to make chocolate covered googly eye Oreos for...
Dessert Tables
How to Cut a Round Cake for a Party
Cutting a round cake for a party shouldn't feel like a math test. It's not. That googly eye cake from my Halloween dessert table was a showstopper, and I wanted to make it stretch without going back to unified geometry. (Poor Mrs. Eck. She really tried with me.)...
Googly Eye Halloween Dessert Table
A few years back, I realized I was not a “decorate the whole house for the holidays” girl — especially during the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s marathon. Putting it all up just to quickly take it all down? Give my tired hips a break. The perfect...
How Many Mini Desserts Should You Have Per Person?
I love dessert tables. Where there used to be cake and ice cream, now you get to pick out and arrange sweets to match your party. The downside? Instead of figuring out how many slices of cake you need or how many scoops of ice cream per person, you’re counting cake...
Things to Serve at a Kids’ Tea Party: Best Desserts, Drinks, and Sandwiches
One of my favorite images from my daughters' tea party is of all the guests gazing at our food and desserts table. If you're wondering about things to serve at a kids' tea party, you're in the right place — because the tiny sandwiches, the sweets on a tiered tray, the...
How to Make a Sharkcuterie Board
Y’all, I love a pun. I’m as corny as a dad joke. Anyway, I guess I also have a thing for Shark Week and shark parties, so I thought: how fun would it be to put together a sharkcuterie board full of candy and desserts? Here's how to make a sharkcuterie board for your...
My Parties: How to Style a Haunted Halloween Candy Table
This Halloween, I think my girls are finally too old to trick-or-treat. (Cue the mom tears.) But I thought it might be fun for the girls to celebrate Halloween with their friends. And we know that kids love candy at every age! So I set up a little Halloween candy...
How to Make Christmas Tree Cake Toppers
A multi-layer fondant cake that wows has it's place on dessert tables, but other times, you want quick, easy and inexpensive. But of course, you also want cute. These 3-D Christmas tree cake toppers provide the wow — quickly, easily and cheaply. Here's how to make...
101: How to Style a Dessert Table {Part 4: Add a Backdrop}
Just like your body has a skeleton, a stunning dessert table backdrop needs some support. So today in Part 4 of The Party Teacher's 101 series: How to Style a Dessert Table, we're talking about adding a backdrop — and the support system and tools you need to do it...
101: How to Style a Dessert Table {Part 3: Embellish Your Table}
Half the fun of the dessert table is dressing it up. Once you choose your menu, serving pieces and arrangement, you can have fun with tablecloths, runners, banners and buntings. We talked about adding non-food items to your dessert table in Step 2: Arrange Your...
101: How to Style a Dessert Table {Part 2: Arrange Your Treats}
There are TWO dessert tables: the one in your mind, and the one in reality. They don't always match. And there's a really good reason for that: the way you arranged your treats just isn't working. Maybe everything is too spaced out. Or maybe the arrangement lacks...
101: How to Style a Dessert Table {Part 1: Choose Your Menu}
A birthday party used to mean cake and ice cream. Now, the dessert table is the norm among party-loving moms. Feeling stumped about how to plan a dessert table? Or maybe you've tried to style one and it didn't look quite right? Styling a dessert table does take some...
My Parties: How to Plan a Bake Sale in 7 Steps
Last summer, my girls wanted to have a lemonade stand. They've never had one before, and pretty soon, it turned into a summer project -- and morphed into a neon snow cone stand to benefit The Confetti Foundation. We've turned this into an annual event, and I'll share...
Tutorial: How to Make Jolly Rancher Lollipops
This week is all about getting ready for our bake sale to benefit The Confetti Foundation. (Here's why I support them.) And since this is a one-woman-and-twins effort, we have spent a fair amount of time on Pinterest, looking for recipes that are (1) bake sale...
Guest Party: Great Gatsby Dessert Table
Today, I'm excited to welcome Roxana from Sugar-Sugar Cakes in Canton, GA. Roxana is one of my blog's lovely sponsors, and you've seen her work before in my parties, most recently the microphone cake pops from my girls' Country Music Awards Karaoke Party. Roxana...
How to Test Your Dessert Table Layout So There Are No Surprises on Party Day
This is the week of my much-delayed Gardening Party shoot. I've only wanted to stage this party for a year. Then we were going to shoot in May and got rained out. So we're bracing ourselves for the the June heat! I thought I'd share how I pre-stage my dessert tables....
Guest Party: How to Style a St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Dessert Table
What is not to love about today's guest feature? I love the crepe paper rainbow backdrop. I love the rainbow cupcakes. I love the cookies — stunning. So excited to share this eye candy from Michelle at Michelle's Party Plan It with you! Michelle designed the...
Tutorial: Easy and Inexpensive Fabric Dessert Table Backdrop
For our dinosaur party, I was looking for a new and better way to create a fabric dessert table backdrop. I usually use a pipe and drape system, or just attach fabric to Velcro on the back of my mirror, but that's just a pain. So what I needed was to cover a board in...




















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