A Cupcake Bar Makes a Perfect Cupcake Party
Posted by hellocupcakeblog at 6/7/2008 8:03 AM and is filed under Our Readers' Cupcakes,Cupcake Sources and Tips,Cupcake Events 
Throw a Cupcake Party,
Another beautiful sunflower and Lady Bug, well done cupcakers!
Our Friends Did and it was a Blast!
Karen's pals Andrea, Allison, and Mary Helen conspired with Karen's husband Chris to throw a huge cupcake bash for us on Saturday. They came up with a perfect cupcake party that used a lot of the crazy ideas from our book Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make . For the party they set up two long cupcake bars with all of the candy fixings and frosting to make two of our favorite projects. On one table they prepped all of the ingredients for the sunflowers (Oreos for the centers, frosting for the petals, and M&Ms for the Lady Bugs) and on the other table they had spaghetti and meatballs ready to go (frosting for the pasta, strawberry jelly for the sauce, white chocolate bars for the cheese, and Ferrer Rocher hazlenut candies for the meatballs). There were fresh baked cupcakes at each station and some of the older kids had already received cupcaking instructions from Karen so they could help everyone else make their cupcakes. The clever hostesses Andrea and Allison color copied pages from the book and mounted them so they could put them by each station to give the cupcakers a clear guide for their designs. They even had a video from the TODAY Show going on the computer so everyone could see how Karen made the sunflowers with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb on their program last Tuesday. All this affair needed was cupcakers. I think there were eventually a couple of hundred guests including our new pal Kathie Lee from the TODAY Show who came with her husband Frank, daughter Cassidy, and some close friends and their kids. Everyone who came was in a mood to cupcake. As the guests streamed in they clustered around the tables to start making cupcake sunflowers and meatballs. The cupcaking action didn't stop all afternoon, it was even hard to get up to the cupcake bar and take photos. I didn't see as many cupcakes get eaten as I saw get packed in plastic containers and saved like precious treasures. They were so great looking everyone wanted to take them home. That's okay because Chris is a fantastic cook and he made lots of food so everyone ate well and the sunflower and meatball cupcakes survived to see another day. This party was a big success and proves our theory that serving cupcakes will make a party fun, but when your guests get to decorate them too you have got a bash to remember!
Another beautiful sunflower and Lady Bug, well done cupcakers!
Thanks to everyone who came and especially thanks to our hostesses and hosts for throwing us the Perfect Cupcake Party! We had a wonderful time!
Mrs. Cupcake and the three Mr. Cupcakes (l to r, Chris, Larry, Alan and Karen)
Keep on cupcaking!
Alan and Karen
What a great idea - I **LOVE** this ... thanks for sharing
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Oh wow! This looks like so much fun. With five kids home all summer and all their friends deeming this the hang out house, this might be just the type of activity we need.
You all look like you had so much fun!
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