Kiddie Buffets

         We are now gearing on adding a budget friendly pastry package to cater your most loved little one's birthday needs and it all started by acquiring a Ferris wheel cupcake stand.

         When I turned 18, I planned my own debutante's party, from the roses, the giveaways and the cake design and eventually, my cousin asked me to plan her debutante's party as well the month after.  I guess, I have always been a hands on kind of girl ever since then. So when I had my first baby girl Athena, birthdays was like heaven to me. On her first birthday, even though we celebrated it in McDonald's I still got to insert my stuff. Then on her second birthday, I decided to have it on our home.  I selected a theme for her in accordance to her favorite cartoon character strawberry shortcake.

          But back then, themed birthday parties are not common, so it was not really like a big deal.   People were just happy to see her strawberry shortcake cake, her strawberry shortcake giveaways, the house decorations and even my daughter's dress is strawberry shortcake themed.  the most rewarding part though is the twinkle in my daughter's eyes signaling how happy she is with her birthday.

So when my other daughter also had her second birthday, I also did a Hello Kitty themed party.  By this time, themed birthday parties are slowly catching the vibe.  I opted on utilizing cupcakes instead of cake to be the center of attraction in her kiddie buffet table and I utilized some of her Hello Kitty collections and my cousin made balloon sculptures as gifts.




My other cousins saw what I did with my daughter's birthday party that they too wanted themed parties for their children. The beauty of having a big family is that you have a lot of cousins who would be willing to help out with the set up and perhaps, also because I came from a family of artists, I was lucky to have a cousin who is a balloon artist as well.  Here are the results:

 

I then began a pure pastry buffet, not all of them are themed since I do accept small orders if the client wants to include balloon sculpture, they'd have to talk to my cousin so she can offer her own packages for it as well.  I also accept buffet consignment from other event coordinators but I do keep a collection of stands and jars as well as a chocolate fountain.

Here are some samples of my Kiddie Buffet:

 

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SO! ZOE.. Cupcakes

So Zoe goes Savory

The latest for So Zoe is our line of savory desserts and finger foods....

The Pizza Roll:

Found a recipe for this while watching television. This local show featured small and medium entrepreneurs and one of the the business highlighted was Pizza Roll.  They showed how it was done. I've always wanted to broaden So Zoe to not just offer sweet desserts but also savory  desserts as well. And not just all about baking and pastries.  I want to offer something more.  If I am going to offer this, I wanted it to be bite size pieces so it would be easier to enjoy not only by kids during kiddie parties but adults as well especially for cocktail parties.

A typical Filipino Kiddie party consist of spaghetti, slice bread, hotdog and sweet pastries like cupcakes, now mommies can add one to the menu that children will surely love. During cocktail parties, most of the time, it is kebab cocktail hotdogs and cheese or maki if they want to go a bit Japanese.

Because this product really taste like pizza, anyone who loves pizza will really enjoy this. And not just that, with the summer coming, this is a good beach snacks as well, something you can enjoy as you lounge, sunbathe and enjoy the sun without breaking your budget. You can even enjoy this during a lazy day at home.

The result bite size pieces is perfect for dessert buffets and is well appreciated by both the kids and adults.  

Pizza Roll comes in packs of 30 and pack of 50.

The Chicken Lollipops:

Another finger food product we offer is of course, the chicken lollipops. It has been sort of a family tradition to include this menu in any family event so might as well share to everyone what finger lickin' good really is bite size.

Other Savory Products:

• Chicken Cordon Bleu

More products available soon check out the savory page

Themed Cakes

When I first started making cakes and doing some frosting designs, I thought piping cupcakes was the hardest thing but as soon as I do them on a regular basis, I found it rather very rewarding if I get to accomplish a cake design that I first thought would be impossible for me to do.

Considering that I am using frosting as opposed to fondant with which has a lot of molders available in any baking supplies company, designing a cake using butter cream is a lot like sculpting, you really have to start from scratch. It will require your time and your patience so you better make sure that prior to making your themed cake, you have thought about the design first and how you are going to maneuver your way into creating your cake design.

Tinkerbell Cake

My youngest daughter had asked for a tinker bell cake for her third birthday so I started searching for a design which I believe I can achieve or at least find a way to achieve. My engineering and drafting skills were tested here, after all this would be my first layered cake and my first ever garden cake. Once I found a perfect design (you've got to love Google here) I set off to find my fairies luckily, Disney character toys are all over the metro so I was able to find them. I was also able to find chocolate stones in a local supermarket so I set off with doing my design. The mushrooms are hard to find but, luckily, I found some colorful mushroom erasers in a local school supplies shop so rather than waste more days hoping to find edible mushroom gum paste, I opted on using these instead. Having not made a layered cake before did became a minor setback as covering the entire cake with green frosting is not easy as it looks, the smoothing part of it is a bit of a challenge but I did it and was so proud of myself not to mention that my daughter loves her cake very much.

Adventure Time Cake

My cousin, after seeing what I did with the Tinkerbell cake, then asked me to make a cake for her son.  The theme she wanted was cartoon network's adventure time. I used my thinking cap to make this cake and I must say, boy! was I glad that I listened during when our drafting teacher thought us about dimension analysis.

For this cake though, rather than using my ever reliable red velvet or carrot cake recipe, I decided on making a chocolate cake.  Now, I have been experimenting on different chocolate cake recipes and I was not sure how this new chocolate cake recipe, I recently found, would turn out.  At first, I was a bit afraid that the cake would fail as the batter is very runny but by luck, it turned out to be perfect.  The taste was divine that I am already using the same recipe for my chocolate cakes.  I found some adventure time cupcake toppers in the shop where I get my baking supplies from and I used a licorice candy for my letters. I had the idea of making a checkered design from our checkered cake and there you go, Finn and the adventure time candy people.

I have made other designs as well without the aid of a cake topper (or at least the cake topper is not really the main reason for the cake to become a themed cake, ha ha ha!!!).  Here are a few cakes that became a rewarding challenge for me.

So Zoe Themed Cakes

Guitar Chocolate Cake

Super Girl Red Velvet Cake

Superman Choco Velvet cake