Superbowl Party

(sweet & sour meatballs, beer cheese cookies, touchdown taco bites, seven layer dip)

Upcakes!

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The upcake is the sweeter big sister to the cupcake. It has no wrapper, and when frosted, looks like a little cupcake mountain. Why make the switch to upcakes? More icing! There are a few tricks to baking these adorable sweets, so read on!

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The ingredients are the same as a cupcake, but rather than being baked in cupcake tins, I baked mine in little tomato sauce tin cans. There's a good reason for the smaller size of the can, aside from the preportions. You'll find out about that later. To prep the cans for baking, spray the inside with cooking spray, and cover the side in a cut roll of parchment paper. I put in about 1/3 cup of batter into each tin, and mine slid right out after baking!

To frost, hold lightly at the top and the bottom, like you're pinching it, and roll the upcake around while slathering frosting on the sides. (If you use a standard size can for baking you won't be able to manage this move, your upcake will be too wide to hold and frost in this way.) Load up those sides with sprinkles, before you set the upcake down. 

The frosted sides make the upcake really hard to move after frosting, so I set mine down on squares of parchment paper so that I could transport them to storage after decorating. 

Now it's time to frost the top... lay that icing on, and try to smooth out the place where the top and sides meet.

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Upcakes are really too messy to pick up with your hands, you'll want to use a fork, and I know where you can get some really cute ones! 

I don't know about you, but my whole family is ready to make the permanent switch from cupcakes to upcakes! My favorite vanilla cupcake recipe, and the one I used, is from Cupcake Project, and I love their vanilla frosting too.

Do upcakes really exist? Yes! I searched to find what I could and came up with a lot of "Up" movie themed cakes. But I first saw an upcake, as shown above, on my Instagram feed. I can't remember who posted it, but they were visiting a diner in Pennsylvania called Dixie Picnic, and I think they are the ones who created the upcake. I've changed the shape a little to make them much more vertical.

Go forth and tell all of your friends about upcakes!

New Year's Appetizers

Food: Stuffed Mushrooms, Whoopie Pies, Pot Stickers, Fried Mozzarella, Meatballs, Stuffed Tomatoes
Our cocktail forks

We've also go these super festive forks for your fete! 

Happy New Year!

Ice Cream Social At West Elm

I am so excited to host this event for St. Louis's new West Elm store! I have so many great brands offering their items for our swag bags, which are going to the first 20 people to register...

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Creature Type

Firecracker Press

Finch Vintage Rentals

Indie Mats

Snorkeling Coconut

Sucre Shop

Verde Kids

Come and learn how to customize your ice cream spoons with Sucre Shop and then eat some delicious ice cream by Frostbite! This is a FAMILY FRIENDLY event, so bring the kids! Be sure to call West Elm to register so you get some awesome swag!

Darling Parties!

Dina is Creative director of Deliciously Darling Events, a party design firm based in Atlanta. She takes ideas to the Nth level, always focusing on the details and completely transforming her parties with any theme her customer can throw her way.

We always love to get requests from Dina, and thought it was time to showcase some of the things we've put together for her. For more design ideas, DIYs and to book her for your events, check out her website!

Barbecue, Sucre Shop Style

Chevron Fan Handles

Starry Ice Cream Spoons

Stripey Straws

Watermelon image courtesy of Chicago Foodie Girl

St. Louis Party Supplies

Sucre Shop's studio is based in St. Louis, and we sure love this city we live in! I'm not a born and raised mid-westerner, but I really admire the way this big city acts like a small one. Still we have all the amenities of living somewhere much larger, including all of these fantastic local places which help our parties go with a bang:

Happy 4th, Sucre Shoppers!

In honor of Independence Day, we’re making an appropriately colourful - yet somewhat historically inappropriate - dessert: Eton Mess! Named after the super-posh British boys’ boarding school Eton College, it’s a divine combination of juicy fresh strawberries, fluffy whipped cream and sticky crushed meringue that’s the perfect summer dessert.