A Dorothy the Dinosaur Tea Party - Part 1 Themeing

As featured on Les Enfants this week. The Inspired Occasion had the pleasure of styling and supplying baked item for a stylish Dorothy the Dinosaur tea party for a special little girls 3rd birthday party. With the colour pallet of yellow and green with splashes of pink and blue the designing began.

The client provided us with the invitation created by Surreal Creations who also provided the stationary items for the dessert station which included the bunting, menu cards and loot bags all of which worked well with the theme.

We choose crisp white table clothes with lemon table runners and used sage green risers for both the dessert and drinks station. 

Various risers where used on the table including cupcake stand, cake stand, various box's and cakepop tins to give the dessert station levels of interest. Along with a variety of decorative jars filled with candy adding to the overall feel of the dessert station. With table utensils wrapped in matching ribbon trimming. 

Pre Event Set-up by The Inspired Occasion

The Inspired Occasion arrived onsite the day before to commence the set up, so all that was needed the morning of the party was for us to plate up our melting moments, cake pops, macarons and cupcakes (to be featured in Part 2). Along with hanging some yellow lantern on the deck.

The miniature drink bottles again a huge hit with the children who enjoyed the novelty of filling them with Rosy Tea (Cordial) the vintage colour coordinated straws again adding to the overall theming.

Drink Dispensers/Bottles and straws supplied by The Inspired Occasion

Suppliers 

Surreal Creations: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Surreal-Creations/148034065220353

The Inspired Occasion is excited to bring to you part two of this Dorothy the Dinosaur Tea Party tomorrow night with the details on the themed baked items!!

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Macaron Crazy - Our Top Tips

The Inspired Occasion just can't believe how crazy people are over our Macarons. They are by far the most popular baked items on our edible list and make a great addition to any function.  Not only do they taste amazing but we can also colour match to any theme.

Its hard to believe that 4 simple ingredients can create something this mouth-watering, and believe me it’s very difficult to  just stop at one

• Almond Meal
• Egg Whites
• Iccing Sugar
• Caster Sugar

Although Macarons use only 4 ingredients they are certainly not a quick whip together recipe, they require total concentration without distraction!!  Because of this we tend to bake our macarons at night when we are less likely to be distracted by the pitter patter of little feet  

Because of their popularity you will find lots of new products on the market to help you make perfect macarons, from special baking trays, silicone mats, powdered egg whites and ground almond meal.   However we have found that just sticking to the basics and using a few everyday appliances such a a mix master, fine sieve, piping bag, spatular and metal bowls you too can create beautiful mouth-watering macarons without unnecessary expense.

Without giving away all of our trade secrets here are a few of our top tips to help you achieve amazing home baked macarons:

Top 10 tips from The Inspired Occasion

• Always use old egg that are at room temperature
• Never try to make macarons on a hot or humid day
• Process, Process, Process your almond meal and icing sugar through the blender prior to sieving
• We use a teaspoon of egg white powder in our egg white to aid in stability
• Wipe you electricmixer out with some salt to make sure it is clean and dry for best egg whites
• Lower temperature oven is better than higher we recommend 150degrees
• Macarons hate heat and humidity, if in doubt we always put the air conditioner on.
• Macarons get better with age, wait 24hour once assembled before you eat for best results
• Use good quality chocolate and essence for your fillings
• Once you start you can't stop so make sure you have some time to yourself without distraction.

With vibrant colour like these it’s no wonder they are the trend on many of our dessert/candy stations at the moment, with the ability to colour and flavour match they can be  beautifully presents in Glass Jars, on Decorative Platter or Cake Stands to enhance any social function

With our most popular macaron varieties being:

• Raspberry
• Peppermint
• White Chocolate
• Caramel
• Dark Chocolate Ganache

However we are getting more and more request for citrus, nut, coffee and liquor flavoured macarons. So if you have a favourite flavour we are able to create a mouthful of mouth watering macaron.

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