Cute Cupcakes!

The Elf Laundry Dessert menu is fun-filled and easy! Use these adorable Christmas candy and cupcake ideas for your dessert buffet.

The Cute Cupcakes:

These are some seriously CUTE cupcakes, and so easy to make. Start with a chocolate cupcake and make frost with peppermint frosting. You can make this by adding a touch of peppermint extract to white frosting. For the easiest ever cupcake decorating ideas…top your frosted Christmas cupcakes with a peppermint candy ball for extra cuteness… and to cover any not so cute frosting mishaps. The finishing touch is the ADORABLE Elf Laundry cupcake wrappers. These Christmas cupcake wrappers come in collections of three perfectly coordinated designs. Hand painted cuteness adorning peppermint cupcakes… what could be better? Use them for all of your cupcake decorating ideas to create polished couture cupcakes every time.

We used the cupcake wrappers to line our cake tier as well. We gave instructions on how to recreate this cupcake display in the last post, so check it out if you missed that. For the sweet plaid border, simply join the plaid cupcake wrappers from your Elf Laundry collection together by inserting the tab of one cupcake wrapper into the slot of the next cupcake wrapper and continue in this pattern until you’ve created a circle. We used 5 wrappers for this. Finally, we created a miniature cake tier with small cake circle placed on top of an empty cupcake wrapper, turned upside down. We placed sweet Oreo bundles tied with a festive ribbon on this tiny cake tier.

The Cotton Candy Display:

Cotton candy is all the rage right now, and it looks like snow if you use white cotton candy! Cute. We created these precious elf hat cones to serve our puffs of white cotton candy. They are made by rolling a piece of citrus green scrapbooking paper into a cone shape. Use your Elf Laundry Christmas cupcake wrappers to form the brim of the elf hat, and staple or glue-dot them into place. Finish the hats off with a handmade pom-pom attached with some hot glue. Fill them up with cotton candy just before your party. We used clothes pins to hang the hats! Really cute.

Visit The Dressing Room for more Christmas cupcake decorating ideas to come!

Christmas Dessert Table

This dessert table is part of the Elf Laundry party plan that we have… free for you! We created this Elf Laundry themed party and have the complete how-to for you! Now you have no excuse, you just have to do it. We’ve done the planning for you! Today, we’ll show you how to set up this amazing Christmas dessert table in shades of red and green. Not to worry if you don’t own the exact items you see on this dessert table, we’ll give you the menu and a road map for setting up a table of your own… with items you have in your own house.

Dessert Table Set Up

Setting up a table just for desserts has become a popular trend and a great way to entertain. The food becomes a part of the party décor and makes the event feel so special. Tiny tidbits of a variety of desserts allow the guests to nibble and sample. Here is a complete plan for setting up a table for your own party. This dessert table feature is great for the holidays, because you can just set it up and fill it with new desserts whenever the fancy strikes. Whether you are planning a party or it’s just the family, this will be a precious addition to your Christmas décor. Get your Elf Laundry cupcake wrappers while they are still in stock for the season to complete this look!

Start with the table. A simple folding table pushed against a wall works beautifully. Before setting the table in place, we hung a red velvet fabric on the wall as a backdrop for our dessert table. Then, we put the table in place and draped it all the way to the floor with a solid green fabric. Don’t worry that the fabric doesn’t cover the entire table, just use masking tape to secure the fabric to the top of the table so that the bottom edge just skims the floor. Next use a festive wrapping paper and unroll it across the top of the table. We used a fun red and white wrapping paper.

Now, look around your house for items of varying heights, or items that can be stacked to create the height. These items you collect don’t necessarily need to be cake tiers and the such. Maybe you have beautiful candle sticks or hurricanes. Lamps, vases, planters, and other home décor items are also great choices. For our table, we used jumbo gumball machines for height on either side of a retro metal cart. The idea is to put the items with height in the back and arrange them across the table. It doesn’t have to be perfectly symmetrical, just balanced.

For the next level, look for items that are shorter that the first set. For our table, we used empty metal cans and hot glued two cardboard cake circles together. Then glue the cake circles to the tops of the cans. Finally, we attached the pom-pom garland around the edges.

Front and center, we placed a low tray filled with decorated sugar cookies. This could be anything from a platter to a low profile bowl or a similar tray.

The desserts themselves are really very simple, and can be swapped for your favorites if you like.

Our Christmas Dessert Menu:

* Sugar cookie cutouts- elf hats and socks
* Chocolate cupcakes with peppermint frosting
* Oreo cookie bundles
* Cotton candy
* Brownie pops
* Oreo pops
* Gumballs
* Milk

Visit us again for tutorials and more ideas to bring together your own Elf Laundry Christmas!