Saturday, April 21, 2012

Just Pictures: Tea Party For Our New Niece!

My older sister is having a second child, a girl (yayy!), and didn't want a baby shower this time around. Well, I made her have one.  A surprise tea party baby shower.

My sisters and I have been talking about holding a tea party for awhile now, an inspiration from my talented friend, Cin Cin Let's Eat's annual tea party (examples here and here). My younger sister and I planned this party together and decided on 3 savory sandwiches (my responsibility) and 4 sweets (sister's responsibility).

The menu...  
-- Curried Egg Salad --
(inspired from here, without the celery and green onions and added about 1 Tbsp of yellow curry powder to the mix of 8 eggs)

-- Chicken Salad (courtesy of Safeway, haha) --

-- Cucumber Sandwiches with herb butter, half with proscuitto on top --
(mix softened butter with chives and salt, thinly slice an English cucumber and nicely layer cucumber pieces on bread)

-- Raspberry Coconut Thumbprint Cookies --

-- various cupcakes from Frost Factory --

-- Passion Fruit Tart with Strawberries and Raspberries --

-- Fruit Salad (not pictured) --

The spread 

It was a fabulous time on a Sunday afternoon of April Fools Day.  We cannot wait for our little niece to arrive in the world (just a few more weeks, yeah!).


5 comments:

  1. You have to say the ugly tart is laduree! I'm not good with presentation...

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  2. Current score: your sister - 2, you - 0. time to catch up!

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  3. thanks thanks! you did surprise me good.. good thing you didn't post the picture of me w/ my medical mask on.... lol... it was a wonderful tea party.. all the sandwiches were delicious... and of course the laduree passion fruit tart was awesome~ thanks a million~

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  4. Yay!! Nice pictures! Love the decor too! You're the master of streamers hahaha. Are the cupcakes from frostfactory good? Always pass by but never went in. and btw I'm finally done with my tea party post!...2 months later!

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    1. the Frost Factory cupcakes were pretty good, most of them had fillings inside. my favorite was the mudpie!

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