Ameera’s Sweet 16th Birthday Party Dessert Table

Vanilla Cake with Buttercream and Strawberry Filling covered with Fondant and Chocolate Cake with Buttercream and Raspberry Filling

Cake Truffles

White Chocolate Dipped Marshmallows

Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting

White Chocolate Dipped Oreo Cookies

Raspberry Custard Cups

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies

Photo Backdrop

Pink Peony Flower Centerpieces

I was so happy to do the dessert table for Ameera’s Sweet 16th Birthday Party.  She had a vision of gold and pink and since her name means princess in Arabic, she likes crowns, so I incorporated all of these inspirations into the desserts.  My dear friend Laura helped me decorate the cakes.  I have never really worked with fondant, but she guided me through the process as we gingerly covered the cake with fondant and “glued” each little gold dot into place.  I spray painted a crown I bought at the dollar store for the topper. The bottom layer chocolate cake was piped with buttercream roses.  I bought some tuille with gold dots to lay over the white tablecloth. The craft store had a large cardboard letter A which I used to get some height on the table that I painted pink and then glued gold glitter on the bottom half.  I used white serving platters for the desserts. The cake truffles are super easy and can be made several days in advance.  A cake mix (I know – I know!) is involved combined with butter and sugar and then formed into little balls that you dip in melted white chocolate.  I loved them and could have eaten them all!  I used pretty straws and dipped jumbo marshmallows in white chocolate and decorated them with sprinkles and put them in a vase with pink and gold dotted tissue paper. I made vanilla cupcakes and piped pink buttercream on top and garnished them with cute little gold crown picks I found on line and gold metallic cupcake wrappers.  Oreo cookies were dipped in melted white chocolate and decorated with sprinkles which can also be made several days ahead.  I made little raspberry custard cups and topped them with whipped cream and a fresh raspberry with mint sprigs for color.  I dipped fresh strawberries in white chocolate and decorated them with sprinkles.  For the thank you gift, I made sugar cookies and cut out and decorated crowns and 2 different circles with the letter A and another with 16. I put them in little bags and printed thank you tags that I tied on with the curly ribbon I used throughout the party.  Every teenage party these days needs a photo backdrop, and we made ours from gold metallic and pink and white streamers and bought silver letter balloons that we tied in place.  For the table decorations, we spray painted apple cider bottles metallic gold and I made little pink glittered letter A’s for Ameera and glued them on long skewers that we put into the vases with peonies and decorated them with curling ribbon to carry the pink and gold theme throughout the party.  A lot of the desserts can be made several days in advance which made the process easier.  I hope she has great memories of her 16th birthday and I know I had a lot of fun making the dessert table.