A successful, Pinterest Inspired Pink Party!

As I had mentioned months ago, I was basing F's second birthday party entirely on concepts found on Pinterst. With a little tweak here and there, modified to my own ideas, it was quite successful and fun!!  The entire family got involved it was amazing. My mom made F a pinterest inspired pink cake. She used her own cake recipe and frosting recipe and not the one on pinterest but she did utilize the concept of graduated pink layers. It was delicious and so cute and pink. My little girl loved it.

Another componant that my mom decided to do was a Pink Lemonade served in little mason jars for the kids with a pink straw and lemon slice. It was a huge hit. My little girl loved it.

I went with Pink chocolate dipped treats from cake balls to marshmellows and pretzels. Candied apples, cupcakes as well as cookie pops.  There was also a Pink Popcorn on pinterest however they used pink tinted butter. I didn't want a greasy buttery treat since we would be outside and I didn't want it to get soggy so I instead made a pan popped corn, covered in a pink tinted Candy bark. That WAS DELICIOUS. Since the party it has been made a few times and will continue to be served on family movie nights, slumber parties etc. It was the same pink popcorn concept but with my own personal twist.

For foods we just went with things my little girl liked and a few things that our family liked to noche on.

For Decor I used a Hot Pink Pop Up canopy with pink tablecloths and pink tulle pinned around the table as a skirt of sorts (in the picture on corner was pulled down unfortuately, I didnt get a picture with it completed).  I used Pink Lanterns, paper poms, TONS of pink balloons, Pink Mums and pumpkins. It was an outdoor party complete with our favorite dogs, and Papa giving the kids a hayride on his little trailer and ride on mower. The kids LOVED it. Even the dogs had a blast with the hay and balloons and treats for them. After all, what is a party for F without her Bff's Dixie, Yankee and Belle?

Here are pictures from the day: She was all ooh's and aahh's, OH MY PARTY!!, Balloons, just everything she saw she had to say ohh look pink, presents..........She talked about it for days. She even tried my mom's cake. Knowing F, You would know how much she hates all things dessert. She doesnt eat cookies, cakes, pies, donuts etc. She is a savory kid. However, she loved blowing out her candles (6 times) and when my mom cut her the first slice, she was in awe of the pinkness. She dug right in and instantly with the first bite explained "OHH YUMMY", which made my mother's day. After all, Mom did stay up until 4 am making that amazing fresh 6 layers of varying shades of pink cake with scratch frosting.

For the joy on my little princess's face, I would do it over and over again.

IT is VERY Picture Heavy!!

Cookie pops and various treats!

Another concept we went with for our Pinterest party was lots of chocolate dipped foodie goodness!

While F doesn't eat sweets or any sort of sugary foods, we were still going for the eyes wide open reaction from her. She loves pink and over the top anything. She is quite the girly girly and loves boots and skirts, jewelry and purses, Pink nail polish and hair bows. Anything pretty and pink was going to be exciting for her.

We decided on lots of single serving on a stick types of goodies. I apologize in advance for the stinky cell phone pictures. This was another late night and I had forgotten to get out my camera until we were almost done. 

Earlier in the morning, I let F help with making the cake for the cake pops. Later in the day she was so excited to help decorate the dipped pretzels and marshmallows. It's funny because she would never taste them but had a blast creating them.

We dipped Pretzel rods.............RIDICULOUSLY Easy! You can buy colored Chocolate melt at most any grocery store, michaels, joanns or hobby lobby. I have a fancy smancy baby cakes chocolatier (yeah nothing more than a wee little crock pot).  The good thing about it is that I can leave the chocolate in there and go do other things and come back to the dipping later.

Back to the pretzels...no before pics sorry
Simply take your pretzel rod and dip half into the chocolate then garnish while still wet with sprinkles, m&ms, nuts, coconut...the world is your oyster.

Marshmallows...
Insanely easy. Stick a lollipop stick almost all the way to the top of the marshmallow and dip the top half into the chocolate and again garnish while wet.  We used Pink Strawberry Marshmellows with a standard chocolate and the very top dipped in a pink chocolate with glitter sprinkles.

Cookie Pops... These serve to be a bit more tricky because they melt and fall apart (shockingly the marshmallows really didn't).
I used a chocolate sandwich type cookie. Pushed the lollipop stick into the white center and then froze them. Freezing them helped with the melting process. It pretty much eliminated that problem. Once semi-frozen, I dipped quicking into a pink chocolate and F rolled them in sprinkles

Candied Apples.....Standard Caramel Candied Apple, dipped in chopped nuts. once dry, dip the bottom half in traditional chocolate...Let dry then dip the bottom quarter in pink candy bark.

Luckily, I once again had some help from my husband. He deserves some kudos for staying up late rolling cake balls and sticking lollipop sticks in things.

She had such a great time with her goodies and the guests loved them and took a bunch home.  Sure they could have been prettier or more refined but my 2 year old daughter got to help and I would never trade that joy of us being in the kitchen working on things together for anything. If that means a lopsided cake or partially burned pie crust, then so be it. Togetherness is the most important and they were made with love!