Project V: Dessert Bar

our dessert bar creation for this project required us to extend the chosen theme onto desserts. we customized our standard menu of items such as sugar biscuits, marshmallow kebabs and biscuit sticks according to theme but at the same time tried to incorporate some 'french-ness' into the whole display. apart from the regular cupcakes available, we introduced a mini croquembouche cupcake (a culinary experiment on our side) and macarons. dessert labels were translated into french too!

dessert bar skeleton: the night before the event saw us arrange and fix the main dessert bar features such as the large french frame which served to be the main backdrop of the bar.

the focal point of our most symmetrically designed bar (to date) were 2 towers of macaron shells. some were adorned with gold fleur de lis.

a closer look: 2 types of cupcakes were made: the mini croquembouche cupcakes were of lemon flavour while the blue frosted on your bottom left were chocolate. the blue macarons (later on we introduced soft green and sand colored ones for some pretty variation) were filled with nutella cream (yum!). we also managed to find some blue candy with brown stripes that perfectly matched the whole bar. for a different texture, jelly made in complementing colors were cut into cubes providing some nice translucency among the more 'opaque' desserts. 

petite croquembouche: sprinkled with caramel. custard filling were added into the lemon cupcakes. 

sugar biscuits: away with the usual geometrical designs of our previous bars, we royal iced wreaths and fleur de lis onto the biscuits to maintain the theme.some gold sparkle were then added for the finishing touch.

we re-packaged chocolate nuggets with a customized wrapper bearing the name of the bridal couple. the motif is similar to that used for for the bridal invitation card.

dessert bar labels: similar to the chocolate nugget wrapper, dessert labels for the bar used the same wreath motif...

instead of normal pearls embellishing our chocolate dipped marshmallows, gold sugar balls were used this time. fleur de lis motifs were also added to the sticks for detailing. 

and finally we found beautiful sugar drizzles (more importantly in the right shade) for the popular biscuit sticks. we absolutely love how it looks like those colorful precious stones you pick up at a gem shop. yum.

our final post on project v will come up soon featuring some behind the scenes photos. i hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as we did putting it all up together.