Do me a Favour!

Spread the Love

Jams and Chutneys – Go foraging and gather seasonal fruit, add sugar and make jam. Recycle old jars and cover with fabric from old dresses or shirts or match with bridesmaids dresses and colour coordinate ribbons. Label with your names and wedding date and your guests can enjoy the fruits of your labour for weeks to come.

Cookies – a simple butter cookie in the shape of your choice, you and your friends can make these up to a week in advance and (whoever has the best pipe-writing) write your guests name on them. These double up as place cards too.

Pebbles - collect beautiful smooth pebbles over your engagement when enjoying the beach, lakes and mountains and then paint with pictures and guests name. You could even note where you found it showing that whilst you were there you were thinking of your nearest and dearest. Another place card and favour in one.

Make Scents – set up your own lab and make gorgeous, unique fragrences. Collect bottles from vintage and thrift shops and markets or ebay and amazon. Great tips from here: http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/a/makeperfume.htm 

Let Love Grow – plant cuttings from your garden (family/friends/great outdoors or garden centre) into little buckets or pots, label with guests name and let the love grow.

Something Old, Something New – Collect vintage cups and saucers and make candles. For equipment: http://www.homecrafts.co.uk/_candle-making?gclid=COH5q—na4CFaEntAod-BliJQ 

The Food of Love

For those with a sweet tooth and you don’t want to make your own, bag or box up sweet treats such as truffles, sugared almonds, cookies, mini cupcakes and our favourite: macarons.

Pretty in Pink Macarons

When Two become One

Macarons

Sweets for my Sweetie

For those with  a sweet tooth our wonderful “Sweetie Tables” are a unique way to indulge yourself and your guests. We take inspiration from you and your favourite sweet treats to theme your table.

Our Sweetie Tables make fantastic focal points for a variety of events. Hen Parties can delight in an afternoon of champagne and cocktails served from teapots into antique cups and saucers whilst catching up and enjoying a wonderful spread of mini cupcakes, meringues, personalised cookies, handmade chocolates and marshmallows. Of course there are no calories when indulging at a special event!

You could also enjoy one of these spreads at a wedding, whereby instead of favours the guests are given little boxes/buckets which they can take to the table and fill with their favourites, there is something for everyone. This can be broadened out to include dessert and for an alternative wedding cake: a whole table of gorgeousness.

Of course this is just an excuse for many of us to behave like kids in a sweet shop but for the real kid in you, or even children themselves, how about your own sweet shop at home, bright and fun and full of sunshine.

We can offer cupcake and cookie decorating for all your guests both big and small plus a full on afternoon picnic spread, afterwhich they can help themselves to their favour boxes and fill up for midnight feasts back at home.

So whatever your event and theme, there is something for everyone, which will be completely unique to you and yours.

Macaron Tower

"Spring Sensation"

For those that are trying to stay ahead of the trends, check out our Macaron Tower, as inspired by the likes of Laduree and Pierre Hermes in Paris.

Macarons have always been a Parisian delicacy and popular across France. They are now the “it” sweet in London and are slowly making their way up to Scotland.

Macarons are a mixture between an almond biscuit and a meringue, which gives them their “feet”. Traditionally they are made with ground almonds but we also like to mix it up and have made them with pistachio and a rose filling; pecan and maple; walnut with carrot, ginger and cinnamon (a modern day carrot cake); and a hazlenut with sumptious milk choclate filling.

We love to play around with colours and flavours and theme our macarons and towers to any event. We think these towers make a fantastic alternative to the traditional wedding cake; cupcakes and the croquembouche. They also make a beautiful table centrepiece instead of flowers that can be enjoyed at the end of the meal with coffee. Waste not want not!