Wow! I can’t believe my little girl just turned 4! She is such a sweet little girl and it has been so much fun watching her grow and learn. Ever since her 1st birthday I have put a lot of thought and time into the theme of her parties, the invitations, the food and of course the desserts. I have so much fun planning and preparing for her special day (and my younger daughter’s birthdays as well). This year Katelyn helped with the theme and one of the cupcake flavors. Her and I sat down together and looked through a cupcake book, Hello, Cupcake! , and she picked the snowglobe cupcakes and she wanted them to be blueberry flavored.
Since her birthday is in December I thought it was a fun choice. Once I knew I was going to have a December baby, I never planned to do a Christmas theme for her birthday (unless she absolutely would like one) so with this theme I decided to just stick to a winter wonderland theme and focused more on snowflakes and snow. Now living in Southern California we really have to imagine and create a winter wonderland, but I think we did a pretty good job.
We had so much fabulous food and I can’t wait to share all the recipes with you all over the next few weeks. Here was the menu for her fun and special day followed by some of the photos:
Appetizers:
White Bean Dip with Pita Chips and Home Made Pita Bread
Spicy Cheddar and Cream Cheese Dip with Tortilla Chips
Veggie Platter with Ranch Dip
Main Course:
Beef Sliders
Chicken Sliders
Winter Salad with Candied Pecans, Cranberries, Pears and Feta Cheese
Fruit Salad
Potato Chips
Desserts:
Blueberry Flavored Snowglobe Cupcakes
Peppermint Mocha Cupcakes
Oatmeal Cranberry and Pecan Spice Cookies
Party Favors:
Gingerbread Snowflake Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing
All the yummy appetizers!
All the yummy desserts!
Peppermint Mocha Cupcakes with snowflake sprinkles!
A little “Thank You” to all our fabulous guests! We had such a wonderful time and we are so glad that everyone could share Katelyn’s special day with us!
Happy 4th Birthday sweet baby girl! We love you so much!
Carrie,
Everything was absolutely darling…and delicious!
I am so proud of everything you do.
Love, Aunt Cil
Thanks Auntie Cil! Your kind words mean the world to me! I am so glad that you had a good time! Love ya!
OMG! The cupcakes turned out so cute! Awesome job!
Thanks Joyce! I had so much fun making them. I will post more photos when I post the recipes.
Those cupcakes are so cute! I can’t tell you how impressed I am with everything you made! Happy Birthday to your daughter! 🙂
Thank you so much!!! I just love throwing my little girls birthday parties, it is just so much fun!
Wonderful post and great photos..Happy B-Day to your little girl!
happy birthday! I wish all the best! 😀
So gorgeous, I am in LURVE with those snow-globe cupcakes! Beautiful job!
Happy Birthday to you beautiful little girl!!! Her choice of snow globe cupcakes was perfect. I scanned the photos before I read the post and immediately thought “Wow… those look like little snow globes!”
Enjoy your little one while you can… she’ll be a teenager before you know it!
Those cupcakes are what perfection looks like! :)) well done!
What a cutie! The cupcakes look delicious and I love the sprinkles.
the cupcakes are too cute. actually everything looks so pretty 🙂 i’m sure your little girl had a bunch of fun
I love the both cupcakes you made. They are so beautiful, and the snowglobes are so creative. I’m sure it was a Happy Birthday!
Being a December baby myself, I can fully appreciate the decorations and layout of your daughter’s party! Happy Birthday wishes to her.
those cupcakes look sooooooooo goooood !!!!