A good friend of ours has a birthday on December 23rd, and most years he (and his lovely wife) use his birthday as a wonderful excuse to have a Christmas/Birthday party. A few years ago, the birthday boy celebrated his 40th birthday. Ever since, the party invitations have read, “please join us for John’s (2nd, 3rd, 4th…) annual 40th birthday party!” Last year, I offered to prepare desserts for the party of about 40 guests. I’ve enjoyed playing party planner for this family a couple times, and their daughter’s Snowflake Ballerina Party is still one of my favorites!
Please enjoy John’s 3rd annual… or was it 4th annual, 40th birthday party!
This classic dessert table set up could work easily for a variety of holiday occasions. I started with a set of cake stands in the center (Martha Stewart Collection at Macy’s), some pretty glass trees (Target), added simple boxes wrapped in paper (I use boxes to create height on a table for most of my dessert displays), with square plates (Target) setting on top. Matching white rectangular platters (Target) work great for displaying lots of treats, and a smaller platter (Crate and Barrel) in the center completed the set up.
Now let’s take a look at the desserts…
I made my (famous among my friends) Fudge Mint Brownies.
(Left) Coconut Snowballs and (right) Decorated Sugar Cookies.
More decorated Sugar Cookies (not quite sure why I made them blue when everything else was red/green/white… oh well)
(Right) Delicious Cranberry White Chocolate Bars (think Starbuck’s Cranberry Bliss bars!)
I decorated store bought white fudge oreos with simple royal icing snowflakes, piped directly onto the cookies.
Which treat would you go for first?
Oh my word! It's all so stunningly beautiful!!
Wow! This looks stunning – I love the colour combination and like the touch of blue there too.
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I love that table. Specialy the tower with the trees on top. Everything looks tasty. You have officially inspired me.
Glory everything looks beautiful!
Can I ask where you get the little papers that the brownies are on? I am making squares for a bake exchange and would like to put them on something like that.
Forgot to add that this display is amazing! But then all of your parties & displays are. 🙂
I LOVE those white plates, platters, etc. from Target! I'm working on building up a collection. I would totally head straight for the mint brownies, and people would have to fight me for them. 😀
I love that I know exactly what spot this is in your house! I also love the fudge mint brownies! I have made these and they are awesome! Love you!
~Cecilia
You inspire me! This is absolutely beautiful!
Hi, I just adore your blog. Love that holiday christmas party table. I just found you from Tidy Moms blog.
Erika
Wow, everything on that table looks so cute and delicious! I'd definitely go for the snowflake sugar cookies first; they look absolutely divine.