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Baked with Love!

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There has been a trend late­ly of dar­ling bak­ing-themed par­ties, such as some of my adorable faves by Pas­sion for Par­ties, She’s Kin­da Crafty and One Charm­ing Par­ty! My daugh­ter, Anabelle, and I were so inspired to put togeth­er a sweet lit­tle play date to cel­e­brate Valen­tine’s Day with one of her BFF’s, Mikayla!
For the invi­ta­tion, I found the cutest “Lil’ Bak­er” clip art from Shel­ley at Print Mag­ic (she was even so kind to revise the girls’ hair col­or to that match that of Anabelle and Mikay­la!), which was attached to a heart-shaped wood­en spoon from the dis­count bins at Tar­get. I used addi­tion­al images from this set, along with back­ground pat­terns so gra­cious­ly offered for free down­load by Print Can­dee, for the rest of the paper goods through­out the decor.
The table was set in the coor­di­nat­ing col­ors of pinks, white and browns with a burlap table­cloth and felt heart cut-out place­mats from Home Goods. I am in love with uti­liz­ing these place­mats for the bright col­ors and vari­ety of pat­terns, for even oth­er, cre­ative uses, such as in my Sil­ly Old Bear par­ty last year where I attached sev­er­al togeth­er to cre­ate a back­drop. I uti­lized beau­ti­ful cup­cake plates that my sis­ter-in-law had giv­en me a few years back, along with cup­cake mugs my moth­er had bought me (can you tell my friends and fam­i­ly spoil me with cup­cake-relat­ed gifts?!), which were filled with choco­late milk and whipped cream. The girls were greet­ed with a set of oven mitts, aprons and chef hats adorned with cup­cake lin­er flow­ers. I first saw this adorable idea from One Charm­ing Par­ty and fol­lowed a tuto­r­i­al from Urban Com­fort to cre­ate my own! I added lit­tle rub­ber cup­cake pins found at Joann Fab­ric & Crafts. Lit­tle mason jars filled with spat­u­las (thank to a tip from Sug­ar­belle’s on Face­book!) and rolling pins were at each set­ting for when it came time to dec­o­rate their own cup­cakes and cookies.
My daugh­ter’s kitchen set from Pot­tery Barn Kids was absolute­ly per­fect for the occa­sion and dis­played all the desserts, ingre­di­ents and favors!
Although Anabelle and Mikay­la were going to dec­o­rate their own treats, I just had to make some of my own! I had orig­i­nal­ly made chef hat cake pops for my dear friend, Natal­ie at South­ern Belle’s Charm for her son, Greyson’s piz­za par­ty last year. This time, I added pink flow­ers to match the girls’ hats and also made some cup­cake cake pops, while both were housed in mix­ing bowls with bak­ing ingre­di­ents of flour and “frost­ing”. Instead of uti­liz­ing sticks, I made the pops on these super sweet pol­ka dot paper straws from Cakes and Kids. Just a cou­ple of days before, I saw the most dar­ling tuto­r­i­al to make edi­ble cup­cake box­es from Sweet Sim­ple Stuff out of choco­late and meringue cook­ies and decid­ed to try it and the result was absolute­ly pre­cious and perfect!
The rest of the fridge dis­played milk car­tons (from a tem­plate from A Lit­tle Hut), egg-shaped sug­ar cook­ies and marsh­mal­low bags. The favors were also housed here, includ­ing pas­tries of both felt and erasers from the Tar­get dis­count bins. I also ordered the most adorable brown lit­tle treat bags from Cakes and Kids, which car­ried the erasers, and pro­vid­ed cup­cake box­es in which to car­ry them home.
The play oven dis­played some cup­cakes that I made with top­pers match­ing back to the adorable clip art. Bak­ing inside were the plain choco­late cup­cakes and sug­ar cook­ies, baked with love, of course, and wait­ing to be frost­ed and sprin­kled! I also found the cutest cup­cake-shaped truf­fles in my local gro­cery store, which I includ­ed inside mea­sur­ing cups.
The sprin­kle sec­tion of the cup­cake bar was inspired by a pin by the fab­u­lous Jes­si­ca at Par­ty Box Design on Pin­ter­est (orig­i­nal­ly from Keuken­prins­es), who also has some of the most dar­ling cup­cake invites and print­a­bles! I also made some cup­cake choco­lates on sticks, which I arranged in “I ♥ U” mini vas­es. The vanil­la and straw­ber­ry frost­ing for the sweets were packed into indi­vid­ual plas­tic cup­cake con­tain­ers found at Home Goods, which were per­fect for the girls to car­ry to their tables and spread some love!
One of my favorite aspects of par­ties these days are the pho­to ops and I was inspired by some bak­ery booths that I had seen from Pot­tery Barn Kids last year, as well as She’s Kin­da Crafty’s lat­est par­ty. For an easy-to-make prop, I sim­ply used an emp­ty frame that my hus­band tied to some tree branch­es, and embell­ished it with addi­tion­al cup­cake lin­er flow­ers with the word “BAKERY” spelled out, inspired by the gor­geous ban­ner cre­at­ed by Natal­ie at South­ern Belle’s Charm with doilies and cof­fee fil­ters from our lat­est “Just My Type” Valen­tine collaboration!
Both Anabelle and Mikay­la had an absolute blast dress­ing up in their chef hats and aprons, dec­o­rat­ing their good­ies (espe­cial­ly with the sprin­kles ~ so glad we decid­ed to do it out­side!) and gob­bling up the goodies!
The bak­ery win­dow did not dis­ap­point! How cute are these pho­tos of the girls show­ing off their cre­ations and treats?!

These days, we are so for­tu­nate to have access to so much inspi­ra­tion on the inter­net, in blogs and on Pin­ter­est. As you can see, I def­i­nite­ly took advan­tage of all the amaz­ing resources and tuto­ri­als out there! We had such a fun time “spread­ing the love”! Wish­ing you all a very sweet Valen­tine’s Day! ♥

Baked with Love Valentine Play Date Ideas ~ Lynlee's

Merci Beaucoup!



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Comments

  3. You ROCK!! This is the cutest lit­tle bak­ing par­ty i’ve ever seen!! i LOVE pink…and all of the details are amaz­ing!! HELLO…goodies dis­played in mea­sur­ing cups…awesome!! 🙂 LOVE! xoxo

  7. {bacon smelling salts} Total­ly felt faint from all of the sweet details! Play­ing bak­ery is such a fun and imag­i­na­tive thing for kids, but to actu­al­ly have it come to life–AMAZING! You are a true gem, Lynlee!

    {If Anabelle needs a big sis­ter or a PiG, I’m avail­able for adop­tion!} ♥ Your lil’ Hon­ey Ham

  10. Love the Bak­ery win­dow pho­to op. It’s genious! I may have to use that idea for a faux tick­et booth for my upcom­ing cir­cus party.

  18. Ohh Lyn­lee!! How adorable is this par­ty?!?!? OMG!!! Are you sure you’re not a par­ty plan­ner?!!? BEAUTIFULLY done my sweet friend! And you’re daugh­ter is just gor­geous!! Con­grat­u­la­tions!!!! BELLO!!

  22. Seri­ous­ly, this has to be the cutest par­ty EVER. You are amaz­ing — what a lucky lit­tle girl to have you as her mama! Fab­u­lous work as always, Lynlee!

  24. Oh my good­ness!!! I can­not thank each and every one of you enough for all your amaz­ing­ly sweet, kind and gen­er­ous com­ments!!! I am so incred­i­bly lucky to have such amaz­ing friends and sup­port­ers and help me “spread the love”! Mer­ci beaucoup!!! ♥

  27. Wow! I am in love with your cup­cakes! I am dying to know how you put the fronting on like that, they are lit­er­ary to die for!! The whole theme is a amaz­ing and the pic­tures are dreamy! I am also mes­mer­ized with your blog, that is prob­a­bly because I am a Paris lover and any­thing that has any­thing to do with the beau­ti­ful France is my obses­sion:)
    Wow! I cant get over this party!

  29. Oh my good­ness, this par­ty is super cute and I love that you got such great pho­tos of all the gor­geous details. I can’t believe you did all this for a play date! You’re like super mom!

  34. This is so sweet! Love, love, love it! I have been look­ing every­where for chil­dren’s sized rolling pins…where did you find them? You are amaz­ing­ly talented!

    • Thank you so very much for your super sweet words, Tina! I found the rolling pins at my local Hob­by Lob­by store! They orig­i­nal­ly had red han­dles, but I paint­ed them pink. Hope this helps! ♥

  36. Hi I am in love with the set up of this beau­ti­ful par­ty. Love the rolling pins am want­i­ng to know what they were used for exact­ly as you sup­plied sprin­kles & frost­ing which the spat­u­las came in handy for please. Thank you. Your cre­ativ­i­ty is amazing 🙂

    • Hi Olivia ~ Thank you so very much for your super sweet words! Quite hon­est­ly, the rolling pins for sim­ply for dec­o­ra­tion and a favor that the girls could take home. Hope this helps! ♥

  37. Thanks so much for your response. I looked into the kitchen from pot­tery barn as we got our first store in Syd­ney Aus­tralia recent­ly but they no longer make the clas­sic kitchen. It’s beau­ti­ful. Your blog on the “baked with love” par­ty is tru­ly amaz­ing. Want to be lit­tle all over again 🙂 look­ing for­ward to my daugh­ter grow­ing up for plen­ty of par­ty’s. Thanks again. Xo

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