Hi Everyone!
We recently had a giveaway on this blog for 2 Pinkalicious cupcake cookbooks – congrats to the winners! The best part was that we threw a perfectly Pinkalicious party for my daughter and her friends.
Here’s the details from our party:
I started with just a few simple decorations including this cute paper plate center piece. I took one of my large Pinkalicious themed plates and cut along the cute Pinkalicious in the middle. Then, I taped it to a skewer that I had on hand. I placed this along with some pink shredded paper and pink candy into an empty mason jar – voila! A quick and easy centerpiece that looked oh-so cute!
I dyed 1 scant cup of large, dried noodles with 2 tablespoons of vinegar and around 7 drops food coloring in a large zip lock bag. Then, shake, let them sit in the bag for about an hour, and lay them out on some foil to air dry over night! I chose both pink and purple because my daughter loves both Pink and Purple equally. 🙂 Then, I cut some string. I tied a noodle on one end and I wrapped the other end with clear tape to prevent fraying. This was just a little activity to help fill in the waiting gaps while I got frosting and food ready for the girls!
Then, each girl got to spread their own frosting. When I announced that it was time to decorate, my daughter literally started yelling, “IT’S CUPCAKE DECORATING TIME!!” I’ve NEVER heard her yell like that, but hey – it really was that exciting!
The girls added sprinkles and a cherry as well. My favorite moment was watching the girls put the cherries on upside down. They tried desperately to get the stem to stick to the frosting and all I could think was: they’re trying to put it on like a tree! It was sooo cute to witness! Eventually, with a little prompting, they figured out that the cherry easily sat on top of the frosting instead of the stem. 🙂
While my daughter finished eating (she’s the slowest eater on the planet – well, maybe not the planet, but you get the idea), one of the moms started to read the book, Pinkalicious, to the girls who had finished. It was so cute to watch them all gather after they had eaten their cupcakes – it was great timing!
Then, we finished up with some noodle necklaces. This was my favorite shot of one of the girls who had her necklace down between her feet as she worked hard to thread a patterned necklace!
And, the result! A perfectly Pinkalicious noodle necklace! The girls had a lovely time getting to celebrate pink together (and, a little bit of purple :-)). Oh, and the cupcakes that we ate were simply divine. If I can bake them, so can you (seriously, I’m the one who ruins the mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving…the kind from a box…;-)).
Your Turn!
What kind of party will you be throwing this year?
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In full disclosure, the Pinkalicious marketing team provided the party products shown about for us to throw this party in addition to the 2 Pinkalicious cupcake cookbooks for us to giveaway on this blog! A big thank you to the team!
This looks super cute!! I bet you and L will be having a blast in the kitchen! I know a few little girls out here who will absolutely love having fun in the kitchen with this book!
Yummy cupcakes!
Love to bake and if I can bake alongside my adorable current and soon to be born grandchildren, then I’m in hog heaven!! Love this!
I love to bake and this book looks like fun!
I enjoy making cupcakes.
I want to win because I love to collect cookbooks
I’d love to win because these look really yummy.
you can NEVER have too many cupcake recipes!
Because we’re big fans of the pinkalicious stories so having a pinkalicious cookbook would be a great complement
Fun! We love cupcakes! 🙂 Yummy Yummy! Even with a bite taken out of it yours it still looks yummy and fancy! 😉
I have a daughter who LOVES these books and this book could give me some great ideas for her birthday party in February.
For my son’s upcoming birthday, cupcakes are better than cake
I like to bake and my daughter loves all the books.
I would love this for my daughter for a christmas present
My daughter loves to look at pictures of desserts– since I don’t make them very often! Not that I don’t love them… I love them too much! She loves pouring over my recipe book!
My daughter loves to cool with my husband actually. They would have a lot of fun recipes with these books!
Thanks for the opportunity!
My niece would love this book!
Because we love Pinkalicious and we love cupcakes!
my daughter loves pinkalicious and we enjoy baking cupcakes, so this book is perfect
Being the only female in the house, I could use some pink and well… my boys LOVE cupcakes! You did a great job!
I love to bake
My husband loves baking esp with my oldest boy
we have loved ALL of the ilicious books and both my daughter and I love to bake so we would absolutely LOVE to have the cookbooks!
My daughter loves Pinkalicious so this would be a fun Mommy/Daughter activity!
Entering for my blue-a-licious boys and soon to be pink or purple-a-licious baby girl 🙂
I love to bake and cupcakes are my all time favorite thing ever
I want to win because we love to bake cupcakes of all sorts!
I would love to win this because I have a 7 year old who loves to cook with me and who would love this
I would love to win this as my daughter likes to help me back and we would have so much fun making these recipes together.
Laurie Emerson
This is the best of both worlds–Miss Pinkalicious and baking together!
I would love to give this to my niece. she is a great cook.
I would love to learn some new ideas for my nieces birthday.
We love all the books in this series
i would love to win because we would have a blast with this
I love baking with my kiddos we are always looking for fun new recipes 🙂
It just sounds like it would so much fun! and tasty!!
i’d love to win this for my niece. it’s so cute!