West Island College Anniversary BBQ

West Island College celebrates their 35th anniversary this year.  In an effort to share the pride and happiness associated with reaching this milestone, they hosted an outdoor BBQ and fair this past weekend.  They not only invited their alumni but offered free entrance to anyone who wanted to enjoy the festivities.  What a great way to say thank you to their community!

We were around to offer our cake pops as a sweet finish to an excellent BBQ spread.  The attendees were very appreciative and made us feel very welcome.  The whole tone of the event was super and we felt really lucky to be part of it.

Many thanks to Alex and Chantale for including us in this event!

Rocky Roads at WIC

Don't these little rocky road cake pops look delicious?  If you were at West Island College's 35th anniversary this past weekend, you could have tasted one yourself!  For some more details on the anniversary BBQ, have a read of the post above this one.

Yatch Club Fashion Show, Part 2

  

These pictures are just a few snaps of the table we had at the show described in the previous post.  The Ladies Committee is committed to introducing and supporting local businesses as part of the fashion show so we had some space with other vendors to display our products and talk about what we do.

Petit Buttercup Goes Fashion

Every year, the Ladies Committee at the Hudson Yacht Club hosts a fashion show.  The fashion show not only helps point everyone in the right direction for their spring/summer wardrobes, but it provides a venue for local business and raises money for a local charity.  This year, proceeds were donated to NOVA.

Erika is a member at the club and via some insiders* on the Ladies Committee introduced our cake pops to the organizers of this year's show.   In an effort to include entrepreneurs in the area, the committee ordered some of our products to serve after the show's wine and cheese.  Since the pops were being served to the attendees as they were seated at their tables, we made a point of labeling them so that the ladies would know what flavor they were indulging in.  Our little bites were a hit and we had a great night with all the ladies. 

By the way, the show itself was amazing.  Neither the organizers nor the attendees were put off by the unseasonably hot weather.  The clothes were lovely, the emcees kept the tone light and pace relaxed and the models were super.  Notably, all models are members at the club and displayed a great range of looks and ages - the youngest ones in their 20's to a true role model at 90.  Wouldn't it be nice if all fashion was so inclusive?

Special thanks to the Ladies Committee for making us feel so welcome and putting together such a great event.


*You know who you are!

Build-a-Bear Party

Last week a good friend asked us to create cake pops for her daughter's birthday party.  It was a Build-a-Bear party and all decorations were pink and brown.  We sourced these great little bear ornaments and corresponding ribbon.  How lucky were we to track these down and how perfect they are for the birthday girl.

Happy birthday Victoria!!!!

More Party Pictures for Sarah!

Here are a few pictures of the table and the birthday girl herself.  Enjoy!

Happy Birthaday Sarah

Last weekend was my oldest daughter's 9th birthday.  In an effort to keep 10 nine-year-olds interested and engaged, we hosted a mad science party for her.  Flubber and fireworks making were both on the agenda!

The mad science theme made it lots of fun designing the dessert and gift bag table. I started by choosing a color palette for the table.  As good luck would have it, I came by some great scrap-booking paper decorated with what looked like (in the eyes of a non-chemist) atoms and molecules.  The colours were bright, clear and - most importantly - easy to match.  Not surprisingly, our famous cake pops made an appearance on the table.  At the demand of the birthday girl, we made vanilla and cookies and cream pops dipped in white chocolate and sprinkled with colourful confetti that matched the paper.  We added a little mad science of our own to the cupcakes by sprinkling them with pop rock candies to give it an extra surprise POP!  We also had white chocolate covered Oreos, jelly beans (displayed in test tubes), coloured popcorn and other candies.  The best part though, was Sarah's reaction when she saw the table...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPAYA!

First Communion Cupcakes

While cupcakes are not part of our standard offering, we do make them from time to time to help out our clients.  The ones you see above were created for the client described in the post below; blue and white first communion theme.  We created both vanilla* and chocolate cupcakes with a little custom chocolate on top to finish the look. We again put a dress around them to help them mesh with the overall colour scheme and make them a little more special.

* Keep in mind that at le petit buttercup we only use really vanilla bean to flavour our vanilla cupcakes and cake pops.  You can definitely taste the difference.

First Communion - Take 2

Continuing with the first communion theme, here is another great option, this time for a boy.  The client's requirements posed a bit of a challenge for us at first - but we love a challenge.  Our client had based her party decorating theme around a strict blue and white colour scheme.  However, she knows our product well and is a big advocate of our maple, mint chocolate and rocky road cake pops.  Seeing as we don't like to change the appearance of those flavours - the outside is as good as the inside and the total look helps makes them so yummy -  we created the cute cake pop dresses you see above. This way, our client can have the cake pops she wants while still making them blend into the decor of her table.

First Communion - Take 1

What a cute package!

For a number of our clients, it is first communion and confirmation season.  As such, one of our clients asked us to create a gift bag to give away for her daughter's first communion celebration.  She had already determined the theme to be yellow and white butterflies so we obviously incorporated this into our packaging.  Inside each cute little package, we included a vanilla cake pop with a coordinating flower and a cookies and cream cake pop dusted with yellow shimmer powder.  They proved to be a lovely surprise for the lucky recipients.

Mother's Day Gift Box

WE ARE BACK!!!! Here is a box we made for our clients who were looking for a nice Mother's Day gift.  The package holds six cake pops of different flavors.  While we gave these ones a definite "springy-Mother's-Day-feel", they can be dressed up in a variety of ways to suit any occasion.

Anyone Home?

Our lack of updates has not gone unnoticed by us either... 

This week, expect a rash of new posts chronicling our latest projects and packages.  I'll spare you the details regarding some ongoing computer and connectivity issues but give you my word that we'll be back on track shortly!