{Party Bee} Dia De Los Muertos Dessert Table

The day after Halloween last year, I knew I wanted to create a Dia De Los Muertos dessert table for the following year. So let me tell you, I was so excited last month when I started designing my table and decorations for Halloween. The Day of the Dead decorations are so colorful, festive, and easy to do! It is a celebration that lasts for the few days between Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos.

When I started my design, I knew that I wanted a bright but limited color palette for my printable collection. So my primary color scheme was red, black, blue, and yellow. This helped keep things a little balanced and overall cohesive. For an added pop of colors, I wanted to have lots of paper flowers to adorn the table. These paper flowers are very traditional within the Mexican culture, as are the papel picado that are replicated in my printable collection.

As you know, I love sugar cookies and so I knew I had to create some for my table. I created sugar skulls and flowers with skull centers. The color palette was a little lighter than the rest of the table, but I liked the variety of hues. I can't get enough of sugar skulls and I just loved the way these turned out

I also knew I had to create chocolate covered Oreos, so similarly I made sugar skulls and mini flowers. These were so saturated with color and looked so bright and lovely on the table.

I am a big fan of balance and cohesion, and the flower toppers on the cupcakes balanced out the colors from the chocolate covered Oreos quite nicely.

 

I couldn't resist adding margaritas to the celebration! Really what is a fiesta without margaritas?! Though these ones were adorned with coordinating straw flags and placed next to a beautiful Calavera Catrina!

I cannot have a table without water bottles. These are one of the simplest and cost effective items that can be used on a dessert table all while adding to the decor. Not to mention, water is necessary after eating all these sweets!

I tried something a little different this year and created chocolate covered Pretzels...let me just say these were super rich with the crazy amount of chocolate that went on the pretzels. Death by chocolate is truly what these bad boys are....but aren't they beauties!

Lucky for me, my best friend, Gabby, makes the cutest cake pops and she so kindly added to my table by creating these adorable sugar skull cake pops!

I had such a fun time creating this dessert table. If you are interested in creating a table like this, check out my printable collection for next year!

Hope you had a Happy Halloween and Feliz Dia De Los Muertos!

{Sugar Bee} Making it a Sweet Dia De Los Muertos/Day of the Dead

It is November 1st and in my culture, today we start celebrating Dia De Los Muertos. So as we remember the loved ones that have passed away and celebrate their memories, I have created some treats to make Dia De Los Muertos extra sweet!  These traditional sugar skulls and flowers are perfect to lay on an alter, dessert table, or for a little gift. 

Feliz Dia De Los Muertos!

{Queen Bee} Bootiful Halloween Cookie Packaging!

 

I love to give cookie gifts and I just can't help but to package my cookies in these bootiful cookie boxes. This year my kids teachers' will be receiving a small but spooktacular set of cookies to enjoy with their family this Halloween. I enjoy teaching my kids to appreciate their teachers and that they can show their love and appreciation all year long. It doesn't have to be with gifts, but with their attitude, rhetoric, and behavior. But in this case, they are getting some ghoulish goodies! 

This type of packaging is always offered with my flash sales or if custom orders meet my minimum quantity. Keep an eye out for my Thanksgiving and Christmas flash sales!

{Sugar Bee} Brewing up Cookies for Halloween

 

Halloween is in a few days and I am busy whipping up some goodies! When I started planning my Halloween cookies over the Summer, I had such a hard time deciding on what I wanted to create because there are so many cute designs and themes! So after much thought and narrowing down, I decided to create two mini sets that could also work well together as one.

First was my Frankie Collection! Here I created Frankenstein and his Bride all ready to go out Trick-or-Treating! I made Frankenstein and his Bride (inspired by designs by Fresh Cut Flours and Sweet Sugarbelle) as well as a pumpkin candy bucket and a plaque sign held by monster hands (also inspired by Sweet Sugarbelle).

Second was my Witches Brew Collection! With these our little witch (design by Semi Sweet) is brewing up a little Hocus Pocus by creating poison apples (design by Angelica Made Me) in her spooky couldron (inspired by Life's a Batch).

The best part about these two mini sets is that they can easily be mixed and matched or combined entirely since they have a coordinating color scheme and well, monsters and witches just seem like they would be hanging out together at the monster mash bash! 

All these cookies have me very excited for Halloween!

Wishing my readers a sweet and spooktacular Halloween filled with ghoulish goodies and a few tricks with your treats!

{Sugar Bee} Sugar Skull Chocolate Covered Oreos

Halloween is a week away and I am starting to get to work on all of the sweet treats that will be adorning my dessert table. Here is a sneak peek of just one of the yummy goodies that I will serving. Can you guess what my theme is this year?!

{Sugar Bee} Cookies for a 3-Ring Circus

 

I was so excited when I was asked to create cookies for a little boy's 3rd birthday party. Hudson is turning 3 and to celebrate his special day, his mom is planning to throw him a 3-Ring Circus themed party. It is such a cute theme and I had so many ideas it was so hard to narrow it down!

After a lot of brainstorming I came up with a set that I think depicts a 3-Ring Circus perfectly. When I design cookies for birthdays I always love to personalize the cookies with an initial of the birthday child or the age in which they are turning. In this case, I chose to do both! I created a number 3 in a festive circus tent pattern with blue pennant banners. I mimicked the red and white color scheme on the traditional popcorn bucket, but added a touch of black on the H which helped tie in the Ring Master's mustache. The butter on the popcorn also helped tie in the yellow on the clown. And of course the clown was a must because who doesn't think of clowns when they think of a circus?! The hardest part for me was deciding which animal to create for the set....do I choose an elephant, a seal, a monkey, or horse? But ultimately I chose the lion because kids are always excited and awed with the lions at the circus. They are also fun because I get to use sprinkles and what child doesn't love sprinkles?!

I had so much fun with this set and I hope the birthday boy loves them as much as I loved making them!

Happy 3rd Birthday Hudson!

{Sugar Bee} 80th Birthday Cookies

When I got a request to make cookies for a couple who are turning 80, I was so delighted to be a part of such a special day! This sweet couple is having a joint 80th birthday party and it was essential for me to create something that was elegant, festive, and fun!

I was told that these two are big Green Bay Packers fans so I knew my touch of fun and whimsy would be to create sugar cookie cheese wedges with the Green Bay "G".  The main color scheme of the party is black, white, and gold....all very elegant! However, I needed to pull everything together with the cheese wedges, so I included the green and yellow into the color scheme in the form of flowers and leaves for a pop of color and to create a cohesive cookie display while still looking pretty.

I kept the the chocolate covered Oreos very clean and elegant with white and gold being the main colors. These can be incorporated easily on to a dessert table and coordinate with just about anything.

I am so happy with how everything turned out and I hope the birthday "boy" and "girl" love their special treats!

Here's to being 80 years young!