Dessert Table: Birch Bark Beauty

Ok, so lots of you loved this quirky, creative forest cake idea and told me so here, on Twitter, and on Facebook. I'm back today with another woodsy cake (and dessert table) with a birch bark theme by Sweet Sweets Cake Art.

Isn't this just the coolest forest dessert table? It's cute, but not too cutesy. What do you think? 

In the mood for a little more feathery, birch bark goodness? Check out this dessert table I designed last year.

images by A Simple Photograph via Style Me Pretty

Reader Design: Woodsy Wedding Dessert Table

Amanda of Buttercup Cake Design contacted me a few weeks ago with a really nice email. Amanda is a Canadian baker who designs dessert tables to showcase at farmer's markets. Yesterday, she contacted me again to share images of one of her recent works and to let me know that she plains to incorporate my Halloween printables into her display this week!

Amanda designed this woodsy Autumnal dessert table for her sister's wedding.

I especially love the wild, but refined look of this cake. Since Amanda knew it would be blazing hot during the August nuptials, she created this styrofoam cake and added a real top tier for the couple to cut.  Amanda cleverly incorporated authentic natural elements into the design to add a rustic feel. Her wood stumps serve as risers and platters. You can also use real bark like I did here and here.

Amanda chronicles her journey in the dessert table design world on her blog Sweet Pursuits. She has a fabulous outlook on celebrating the ups of the business so that the downs are a little less upsetting. One of her most recent celebrations? This dessert table was published by Vancouver's Real Wedding Magazine.

Congrats Amanda, and thanks for submitting your dessert table!

So tell me, what's your favorite element of Amanda's design?

Behind the Scenes: Woodsy Photo Shoot

Earlier this week, I mentioned that photog Emily Steffen and blogger/stationer/stylist Bethany Hway and I were teaming up to bring you a great seasonal dessert table. After lots of brainstorming and one day scouting, Emily and Bethany found the perfect natural setting for our project.

Don't worry, we cleaned up all of our prep work before leaving the state park.

Bethany and Emily tag teamed the table and took lots of pretty pics.

 

 

This really was a dream setting. I can't wait to share the final images with you.

Have a great weekend!