Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Christmas Party


CROQUEMBOUCHE -French dessert often served in place a the traditional wedding cake made from cream puffs held together with carmel.

PEANUT BUTTER KISS CUPCAKES - Chocolate cupcake with peanut butter filling finished with chocolate ganache.

HOMEMADE GINGERBREAD MEN

WATER INFUSED WITH ORANGE AND CRANBERRIES & CRANBERRY HOLIDAY PUNCH

Cute Annie Modeling the appetizer table and also our piano serenader.

CARNEGIE DELI CHEESECAKE - Homemade from Carnegie's own recipe.

MOZZARELLA & TOMATO TOPIARY - I saw this on Barefoot Contessa and loved it.
MY LITTLE HELPERS. THANKS GUYS!


Last week I catered a Christmas party for my aunt and had a blast. Here is a list of what I served.
Appetizers: Panko Breaded Shrimp, Assorted Savory Puff Pastry Bites, Teriyaki Meatballs, Thai Lettuce cups served in Crisp Wantons, Assorted Crudites Tray, Cheese & Honeycomb Tray and a Mozzarella & Tomato topiary.
Desserts: Mini Peanut Butter Kiss Cupcakes, Mini Pina Colada Cupcakes, Carnegie Deli Cheesecake w/ Fresh Strawberries, Cranberry Banana Bread, Gingerbread Men Cookies and a Croquembouche (Cream puff topiary).
Drinks: Classic Christmas Cranberry punch, Orange & Cranberry Infused Water and Hot Wassel.

Some of the items were pre-made but I made a majority of the items from scratch. My poor oven was going non stop but I really enjoyed all the baking and cooking. Also a big thanks to Maile who filled and frosted 200 cupcakes and decorated all of the gingerbread men and Suzette for making the mozzarella topiary. Everything turned out exactly how I envisioned it.

4 comments:

Kiana Hayden said...

Kay- you're the bomb.com. Everything was so beautiful and those cupcakes were AMAZING. You did such an awesome job!

The Lyon Family said...

You never cease to AMAZE me. The food looks de-lish! Good job Kay. You should so totally start your own catering/event planning company.

k2 said...
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k2 said...

You did a great job K. I can see why everyone was happy. You've got some fantastic pictures for your portfolio. Ditto on the catering/event planner thing. I love what you did with the Barefoot Contessa idea.