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Decorating A Graduate Tea Party

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Serve up an elegant graduation tea party complete with old style tea sandwiches, canapé, classical music, and amusing treats like tassel pasta and edible diplomas.

 

A Graduation Tea Party should be a short sweet and elegant affair where many guests are invited. It is one of the few tea parties where it is quite common to have as many to thirty guests to hundred guests at one time. Of course all of this depends on the number of guests that you want to invite at one time.

 

As graduation tea parties are quite large in number, it is usual to serve mostly sandwiches to save on mess and preparation time. A soup and Jell-O salads are also served to round out the meal a bit.

 

On the invitation ask you guests to dress casually but formally. Make it clear that classic music will be on the menu as well as several classic games of strategy and skill – poker, chess, checkers and croquet in the back yard. Winners of these games can expect to receive small party favors such as tiny silver picture frames, pens and bookmarks,

 

The design theme for this party should be black and white to match the formality of the occasion of graduation. A nice touch is to display photographs of all of the other graduates in the family on the walls and pictures from old yearbooks. One contest that could be held is “worst year book “ photograph for which the winner wins some kind of booby prize.

 

As this party is very grown up, you should use your very best silver tea service and crystal bowls. Square black and white plates also add an interesting touch to a staid looking table. White Oxford China with your laciest white tablecloths would be best for giving the whole affair a formal yet humorous flair.

 

If you like you could also attempt to make an ice sculpture of your school’s mascot or have on ordered up professionally. You can also give this type of party of personal touch by offering napkins or souvenir matchbooks engraved with a favorite saying or a motto.

 

Of course you shouldn’t forget the cake. You can get cake molds in the shape of graduation albums and all sorts of objects that relate to graduation ceremonies.

Girly and Feminine Wedding Cakes

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Decorating cakes so they are frilly and feminine is a real art. One of the most interesting of these cakes is the Pink Champagne wedding cake . This is not a new thing…the Pink Champagen Wedding Cake is actually a 100-year-old tradition. The cake was invented during the roaring twenties and it is basically a white cake in which all of the liquids (like water or milk) have been replaced by pink champagne. This gives the cake a distinctive fruity flavor.

 

In fact to make it at home all you have to do is buy a white cake mix and simply substitute pink champagne or even a rose for the liquids specified in the baking instructions. The frosting is also easily made out of butter, sugar, milk and champagne as well. The cake never naturally turns out pink so a few drops of red food coloring are added to the frosting to give it a delicate pastel rose hue.

 

Very few bakers nowadays make this retro style of cake but you can find it at the Kansas Steak Company online if you want to order one for a special celebration. However making one yourself is relatively inexpensive and also super-easy.

 

It is very traditional for wedding cakes to be decorated with edible pearls. Edible pearls are not anything fancy. They are simply tiny balls of fondant that have been rolled into tiny balls. They are then dusted with real edible pearl dust to give them their solid and shiny appearance and are often unmistakable for the real thing.

 

Real edible pearl dust can be bought online and eating it is supposed to have the same effects on a man as Cialis. Interestingly pearl dust is also sometimes sprinkled into glasses of poured champagne at weddings to make the drink less acidic and also make them glow a bit in the dark.

 

Edible pearls look great with natural wildflowers and that is a real decorating trend nowadays. Some cakes that are more feminine look fantastic with shiny ribbon wrapped around them or very polished strips of fondant.

 

If you a Cinderella bride then you will definitely want to look into the wedding cakes that are shaped like castles. Palace themed wedding cakes also suit people who are having the literal “fairy-tale” wedding such as a medieval wedding or one based on Disney. Believe it or not you can even get wedding gowns that are based on the gowns of Disney characters nowadays!