Buddy: We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.

When this shower was planned I told Nanette, I dunno, but I think the theme might be diabetes. I definitely went for a sugar overload with the baking. Nanette's MIL hosted the event at her gorgeous home, she had a pink and green bunny theme and did amazing decorations and a lovely lunch.
Me? I just did dessert and favors. It was a great set up since that was my only responsibility I could just focus on that, which I really enjoyed doing. Here's a list of what I put together:

Burger bites (cause they were in the invitations)
Neapolitan cookies
Mexican Wedding cookies (Nanette's fave)
mini cocoa cupcakes
strawberry and chocolate maltballs
a cereal bar with four different cereals
'sleeping baby' lemon cupcakes
Broken Glass Jello

The sleeping cupcake babies were probably the biggest hit. They were surprisingly easy to do, and people seemed to get a kick out of them. I think I might do it again for one of the kid's birthday parties.

For favors made personalized cards (soon to be in the shop since I am redoing things) and (even more!) cupcakes. I put them in an individual cup-a-cake holder - those things work fabulous! I am so impressed with how you can even turn it on it's side and the cupcake doesn't even fall - fantastic! For the cupcake favors, I made a spice cupcake with cinnamon frosting. I knew those would hold up the best, flavor wise and not dry out.It was a hot day, but everything turned out just as I had hoped. I couldn't have done with without Nanners MIL that's for sure. That woman is a party animal. I got many catering biznass propositions, but as always, I say NO. Cause then all the fun would go away!

There's a theme here you see. If you look closely there are little pink hearts on everything, from the invitations, to the food to the favors. And since Nanette and I basically became friends over baking, baked goods (not diabetes) was a running theme as well. I think it went well, only the guests could tell you for sure, but I had a lot of fun baking. As I told Nanette, you know me and the boredom - now that it's over, NOW WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?

Thanks for all the contest entries, a winner will be picked soon.
More shower pics, HERE and on Nanette's blog.