More Teeny Tiny Food...

I love all things TINY! Miniature food is all the rage.There is so many pictures of Tiny Food all over the web including on Pinterest.  For kids parties, it is loved by adults and children alike. Here are a few of the tiny foods I did for Evie's tiny party.

Mini Oreo's

Cute chocolate crackles

Little lolly shop

Cute as a button cup strawberry cakes

Tiny Tarts: Custard, Lemon and Caramel.

Mini 3 tier coconut and pineapple Birthday cake.

Lou x

The magic of Mushrooms...

I love the look of Mushrooms, for a woodland fairy type party theme.
For Evie's tiny party, I bought little pink mushroom lollies.

The take home party favour table was like a mini lolly shop, each guest could choose 1 lolly jar, a lolly pop, a tiny yo yo and a toy. Everyone loved it. The pink mushroom lollies on the far left, were a popular choice.

 I am looking for a few ideas on Pinterest of how else to make sweet little mushrooms. They could be made from spiced biscuits, meringue, cupcakes, cookies.

What do you think is the nicest?

Lou x

Tropical Coconut Pineapple cake recipe

I have cooked this cake many times as it is so easy and always turns out super moist and everyone always asks for the recipe. So finally, here it is:

 

Mix: 2 cups SR flour, 1 cup desiccated coconut, 1 cup caster sugar, 1 cup tinned crushed pineapple, 3 eggs, 150 gms melted butter. Just hand mix or a quick whizz with the electric mixer.

 

Cook in a 190 - 200 degree oven in a large pan for about 1.15 hours or if you use smaller pans or cupcakes perhaps about 45 minutes. This time and heat varies of course depending on the size pan and your oven.

 

The icing and the filling is usually butter cream with some pineapple juice and crushed pineapple instead of any other liquid (save about 2 tablespoons from the can used in the cake). Lemon cream cheese frosting would also be lovely. For Evie's 3 tier birthday cake I then scattered the cake with coconut.

Lou x

Easy take home lolly bags as party gifts for Evie's 4th Birthday Party

May flowers and little blue flowers from the garden.

 Evie turned 4 ! As we went away on a holiday just afterwards we just had a nice little family party for a birthday cake supper. I of course still have to have the lolly bag for guests to take home (even though most guests are adults). So I just chose 3 flavours of Jelly belly's and set up a mini lolly buffet. It was lots of fun and looked so pretty too.

 

We used a teaspoon to scoop them into little bags then sealed with a tiny wooden peg.



Lou x

Just a drop please...

Whenever we would refill my Nans drinking glass or tea cup she would ask for "just a drop please". Here are some more photos from The Tiny Party. Thank you to Liam for helping to keep the "just a drop" drinks filled!

Lou x
                                                                            

Jump for Joy

We hired a small jumping castle for the party. It was so much fun and so worth it as it kept kids of all ages entertained all afternoon!

Lou x

Coconut and Pineapple Cake & more Tiny goodies!

I made the coconut and pineapple cake, it's coated in pineapple butter cream and coconut.

I wanted the cake to look a bit "not too perfect". My older sister made the tulle skirt for the baby doll on the cake.

These are my "cute as a button" strawberry cupcakes made out strawberry puree.

I made the yellow buttons out of fondant icing

My beautiful Mum made the little lamingtons.

I decided to have a menu board instead of individual food labels. My younger sister, who is a graphic designs did up all the printed material. She designed, printed and framed the menu's, I thought they looked fab. Thanks to my Dad for taking all these gorgeous photos.  More photos to come, bye for now, Lou x

More Tiny Party photos for you Lisa!

For the Tiny Tarts, we had Lemon Meringue, Caramel and Custard. I bought pre-made tart shells from a local deli as that saved a heap of time and looked better than what I could ever make. I made the Lemon Meringue and Mum kindly made the custard and caramel. She did a few tests to get them just right.

Do not fret, more photos to come!!

Lou xo

Little Miss Evie's Tiny Party, cute choclate crackles

Cute chocolate crackles.

For chocolate crackles, I always use the recipe on the copha packet, except I halve the amount of copha used and it still holds together perfectly!( without the gross cohpa waxiness) I am onto a good thing with the cocoa that I always use as well. Its Woolworths home brand 100% cocoa powder, it is the richest, darkest colour and makes chocolate things so much more chocolaty. It is found with the drinking chocolates like Milo rather than the cooking section. All the crackles got eaten up quick smart!

Lou xo

Tiny Party Prep

The little lolly shop being set up on our very useful front table.

Our little girl had her "tiny" party on the weekend and I would say it all went very well. More photos of the actaul party to come, but here are some of the photos of all the preparation. Thanks to my sisters and parents for being so wonderful with all their help. This will be a party we will remember forever.

As usual for any of my party's, we visited the local flower markets, more just for the fun of looking. We purchased just 2 bunches of miniature pale pink roses. As seen  on my sister blog, who helped me with all the styling: pale pink roses for the party

A test run of the "Tiny Treats" table.

I wanted to see how it would all work and that I had enough plates and stands, which I borrowed extras from my Mum and sister instead of buying more.

The uncooked Lemon Merigue Pies, ready for the oven. Seeming that they where so small, I made them extra lemony with lots of zest added. They where a hit, may I add!

The tiny Trifle, ready to be topped with cream in the morning. I made raspberry jelly and added a lot of fresh strawberry puree to it. The sponge was also home made strawberry  cake to make the trifle really yummy.

The party was such fun to plan and do! ( but a lot of work too)

Lou x