Decorated Table for a Christmas Dinner

Christmas is a holiday we celebrate in December and it is the perfect occasion to decorate a table and enjoy a great dinner, good wine and a dessert to finish very smiling that day.

When Christmas approaches we started making a list of things we want to do. We want our home look welcoming and full of colors and brightness to celebrate each day in December. Our list includes decor, christmas tree, gifts, recipes and many other things.

To decorate a Christmas table we should select colors, the green and red are traditional, but any color as gold, white, brown, orange combined with Christmas elements can offer a nice constraste. The elements to be used can be tablecloths or table runners, an attractive centerpiece. In this case, I have used items already had a steel tree and a christmas crown, but we can also use a vase with Christmas balls, candlesticks and candles, an arrangement floral, or you can make your own centerpiece with natural elements like flowers, pine cones, nuts, fruits, etc. To complete the design of the christmas dinner table you can used dishes decorated with Christmas prints, cutlery, glasses and cups.

Often you can see chandeliers on the Christmas table, because the light is representative of Christmas

Cupcakes with Christmas Sprinkles

Any excuse is good to taste a sweet cupcake and now is time to celebrate Christmas and what better way than with a shaped cupcakes Christmas tree.

Those cupcakes are decorated with buttercream flavored rum raisin, and although the cream is delicious, today my attention was stolen by those Sprinckles of Christmas that I used to decorate the cupcakes, leaves and red holly balls were complemented with a fondant little star. Sprinkles are small sugar figures that are used to decorate cakes, cookies, cupcakes, etc.

Cupcakes decorating the Christmas table

Cupcakes decorated with scent of orange blossom Buttercream and Christmas Sprinkles

Sprinkles is a famous bakery in USA with The World's First Cupcake ATM dispenses freshly baked cupcakes and cookies.

Lemon and Strawberries Buttercream Cupcakes

Cupcakes to celebrate the first birthday of a little princess. Combining the buttercream and fondant decorations for cupcakes, gives us attractive and professional results, however it can be more laborious because we have to work with more ingredients. But for a few cupcakes with lemon and strawberry flavored, worth sacrificing for.

The pastry bag is a kitchen tool that we can find it of cloth, plastic, silicone. Used to decorate cakes, cookies, cupcakes with buttercream, meringue or chocolate. The pastry bag is used with nozzles in one end, in order to give different shapes to the decor.

The pastry bag and nozzles allow us to do different variety
 of decorations in our cupcakes.

Souvenirs for a Baby Shower Party

The best way to thank friends attend our parties is giving them a beautiful souvenir that allows them to remember the event. The souvenir or memories is a small detail that makes the invited person happy. We can do the souvenirs with our own hands to make it special and unique, however in this case, when I saw this little doll in a store, I thought that it would be the best souvenir for a girl baby shower party.

Cute souvenirs in a white basket



The reason for the party is to welcome to a new baby that will be born soon. What better than this little doll to represent it. The truth is this doll has its history. "At the beginning of the pregnancy, baby´s father bought a musical star. The musical star would be heard by her little baby every night. Mommy would put the musical star in her belly and the baby could hear the melodies. When I saw in the store this little doll with a star, the first thing that came to my mind was that this little doll is my baby".

Chocolate and a thank you card to complement the gift



Souvenirs were part of the decoration candy table



Souvenir is a small detail that makes happy guests at the party

Baby Faces Cupcakes for a Baby Shower Party

When the arrival of a baby approaches, they begin to flutter the ideas in the heads of the mother and her friends. Her priority is start with the preparations for the Baby Shower Party and Plan a Candy table with delicious Cupcakes.

Cupcakes filled with tangerine buttercream

The roller helps us to knead the fondant, we must ensure that it is a non-stick material. In the market we can find rollers of different materials, silicone, nylon and plastic, those are the best option to work with the fondant more comfortably. The roller is used to extend the fondant and to have a perfect finish in the shapes we need to mold.

Cupcakes in the candy table

The wooden rollers are not suitable to work with fondant because 
it will stay stuck!

Witch Hat Cupcakes for Halloween

Halloween is the perfect excuse to bake cupcakes. The traditional festivals are full of joy and what better way to spend a good time eating a sweet dessert. This time a witch hat to decorate the cupcakes in a tonight as terrifying as it is Halloween.

Sometimes the fondant is too hard to knead, because depends on the temperature. That usually happens in cold weather. In those cases we can separate the fondant in small pieces and introduce a few seconds in the microwave, so soon acquire a warmer temperature and will be more easy to mold.

Witch Cupcakes to celebrate Halloween Party

The history of Halloween witches

An ancient legend that the old witches were meeting twice during the year: April 30 and 31 October. Satan realized the call and they came mounted on broomsticks, to share spells and black wisdom in those ghoulish festivities.  The word "witch" derives from the old Saxon word "wicca, or wise". And it was thought that witches, being possessors of magic, also had the highest wisdom. Today Halloween night is also recognized by all " the night of witches".

Maya the Bee in Fondant Cupcakes

Decorate cupcakes with attractive insects for children has been fun. Today the colorful insect Maya the Bee is the protagonist, this beautiful bee is used to decorate the children parties.

The technique Modeling with fondant is not difficult, however, to make perfect and well-defined fondant shapes are required a lot of practice to get skill and perfection.

Fondant should be well kneaded. When the fondant to stretch and it is elastic enough, we can use it and begin to do the shapes. If the fondant is well kneaded, it will prevent cracking at the time of modeling.

Cupcakes in the candy table

The Story of the Bee Maya

Maya is a bee born in a bee hive during internal unrest: the hive is dividing itself into two new colonies. Maya is raised by her teacher, Mrs. Cassandra. Despite Mrs. Cassandra's warnings, Maya wants to explore the wide world and commits the unforgivable crime of leaving the hive. During her adventures, Maya, now in exile, befriends other insects and braves dangers with them. Maya is prisoner by hornets, the bees' sworn enemies.

Prisoner of the hornets, Maya learns of a hornet plan to attack her native hive. Maya is faced with the decision to either return to hive and suffer her due punishment, saving the hive, or leaving the plan unannounced, saving herself but destroying the hive. Maya makes the decision to return. In the hive, she announces the coming attack and is, totally unexpectedly, pardoned. The forewarned bees triumph over the hornet attack force. Maya, now a heroine of the hive, becomes a teacher, like Mrs. Cassandra and shares her experiences and wisdom with the future generation.

Special Cupcakes

I enrolled in a course in creative pastries "Todo Cupcakes" to learn new techniques and combination of flavors to make a colorful, delicious and professional Cupcakes.

I've been learning a little about the secret of the cupcakes from the hand of a talented girl named Julia Guarch. She is famous in networks by its beautiful pastry work, we can see their work on her web postreadiccion. It never hurts to do a course in which you can learn, improve techniques, learn the latest trends in confectionery, meet people and most importantly have a good time.

Today, the world of pastry is very large, everyone wants to make beautiful cakes, funny cupcakes, original cake pops, perfect macarons and stop counting. There are so many options in the bakery, so at each event or meeting you can surprise and you may be surprised with the creativity we see in all the desserts.

I have a long way to go to achieve a professional cupcake, only it be achieved with experience, enthusiasm and love of art!

Baby Shower Fondant Cutters

In the market there are a variety of fondant cutters with different sizes and shapes to decorate cupcakes with fondant. This time we will use cutters with the shape of baby bottles, horses, baby clothes and strollers to decorate some cupcakes. This type of decoration is aimed at baby shower parties or meetings where the arrival of a new baby is celebrated.

Fondant cutters are necessary tools to making well-defined shapes in cupcakes decorations. It is very important hydrate the fondant with vegetable shortening, it help to get a most flexible fondant and also It is used to lubricate the fondant cutters.

Vegetable shortening

It is used to hydrate the fondant, making it more flexible and also it help us prevent sticking to the work surface.

Cupcakes change dramatically when are decorated with fondant. When we use our fondant cutters we can play with colors and get different results.

Fondant cutters help us make flat figures, if we want to create figures embossed can be done with the fondant molds!

Ladybugs in Fondant Cupcakes

We continued working with the fondant. This time the decoration is related to that tiny insect that many parents choose to celebrate the first birthday of their babies. The ladybug is an insect that is characterized by its red color and  black spots. We can buy the fondant red or we can dye the fondant with dyes.

Gel Dyes

Fondant should be dyed with gel dye. It is not recommended use the liquid dye because softens the mass. In the market there are a variety of brands of edible dyes, we can select the one that best suits our needs. We can keep trying until we find the brand that we like.

Ladybugs decorating the party table

Ladybugs are very attractive, their spots and their color attracts the attention of children and adults. His biggest fans are farmers because that ladybugs have an intense appetite. They eat insects and help to keep protected crops. In many countries, the cute ladybugs are considered symbols of good luck.