She would, with the delight only a one-year-old baby can muster, grab handfuls of the delicious confection and shove them indelicately into her rosebud mouth, eliciting the oohs and ahhs of our closest family and friends. “All this, for me?” Her eyes would widen in gleeful anticipation. When I spent a few hours making a baby-sized cake for her sole enjoyment, I expected her to be overcome. One of the pitfalls of motherhood is the expectations we have for our children’s behavior. The “Like a Boss” and “Eat Well, Travel Often” frames I borrowed from baby’s nursery, as well as the Eiffel Tower and the gorgeous painting I commissioned by my dear friend Allison. Lacking a pretty, white cake stand, I purchased this from Target, but the rest I borrowed from friends.
I also snagged a mylar/burlap metallic banner from their dollar section (kind of like this one). Hobby Lobby came through with sparkly gold cupcake wrappers (which disguised my not-so-perfect cupcake crowns), and an adorable gold sparkly “Happy Birthday” cake topper. Target’s Spritz line of party supplies was a godsend–I picked up gold plates and napkins and treat boxes, as well as a little gold pom pom garland for her high chair. I ordered this lavender tablecloth from Amazon. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star First Birthday Decor The lesson here is this: for every perfect Pinterest post, there’s a stickless cake pop swimming in Candiquik. I removed the sticks, cut each ball in two, reformed them, dipped them into the coating, sprinkled them, and called them cake balls. Mic drop. The cake balls (which were originally supposed to be cake pops) were too heavy and ended up falling off the stick into the candy coating. My microwave died, so I tried melting white chocolate in a double boiler, and it never actually thinned enough to dip.
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR CAKE CRACKED
They never developed feet (those ruffles on the bottom that macarons usually have) and some of the shells cracked across the top. Although I’ve made probably fifty batches of nearly-perfect French macarons in my life, the second batch of lemon macarons failed. In this case, three somethings went wrong. Whenever you have a major event like this, something is bound to go wrong. I rounded out the menu with some blueberry yogurt pretzels from Fresh Market and a 9-inch lavender rosette cake (vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream) from Whole Foods. Lavender Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star First Birthday Party MenuĬhocolate Chip Buttercream Sandwich Cookies For the Rice Krispie star pops, I dipped them in the same candy coating as the cake balls instead of using the decorating gels, then decorated them with the sprinkles. I followed these recipes and just added the glitz and glam of the Wilton gold stars and sprinkles instead of the recommended decorations. For the cake balls and Rice Krispie pops, I am linking to other sources. For this party, I somewhat relied on the Great Bakers such as Bakerella (via Pioneer Woman) to do the grunt work for me. This is a unique post because normally I post original (or inspired) recipes. Although I didn’t have an exact number I needed to stay under, I needed to do this as inexpensively as I possibly could. The idea of a dessert and champagne party came to mind because duh, they’re my two favorite things. There was one pesky limitation: budget.
Naturally, I wanted to make her smash cake myself, and I wanted it to look awesome. I wanted an elegant, small gathering (Champagne not optional).
Her name also means “star”, so I settled on a Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star First Birthday Party theme.
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR CAKE FULL
She’s full of sunshine and loves lemons as much as I do, hence the nickname.
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