Girly Gatherings

We've Moved!

2010-10-12T07:24:00.000-07:00

Since my partners had taken a back seat with Girly Gatherings, I have decided to open my own little bakery called Allyson Jane! Please visit the new website at AllysonJane.com!

Big Big News!!

2010-09-30T00:49:00.000-07:00

Hello!!

I have been neglecting this website lately, but I have a very exciting reason though....

I AM OPENING UP A BAKERY!!

Rebecca and Kim, my partners here at Girly Gatherings, have taken a back seat with our business so I've decided to venture out on my own....

I am delighted, excited and beyond ecstatic to open this new chapter in my life.

Please visit my new site Allyson Jane and take a look around... we're having a GIVEAWAY!

Also, become a fan of Allyson Jane on our new Faceook page here !

Sneak peek of the new Halloween Line!

2010-09-14T21:14:00.000-07:00

I should be finished up with the entire line by the September 25th!

To place advance orders, please email me at allyson@girlygatherings.com !

Couture Cookies - Introducing the Celebration Collection

2010-08-14T17:07:00.000-07:00

I am so excited to introduce you to our very first line of cookies, the Celebration Collection!

Each cookie is hand cut and can be tailored with any color combination you choose.

To order Couture Cookies for your next party or girly gathering, please email me at allyson@girlygatherings.com

Girls Night Out Dessert Table

2010-07-31T21:33:00.000-07:00

What says 'Girls Night Out' more than sparkly pink martinis and zebra print?

Girls Night Out is a large event in the Seattle area, and the tickets sell out weeks in advance. When we were asked to be a part of it, we were so excited!

These individual cakes were a huge hit, especially the banana cake with Jack Daniels cream cheese filling and the carrot cake with orange ginger cream cheese filling.

All of our Couture Confectioneries are handmade to tailor to your event.

There were so many fun and girly vendors who were there, tons of fabulous women, and champagne flowing all evening. Who could ask for more?

We are so thankful that we were invited to participate in such an amazing event!

To order Couture Confectioneries for your next party or girly gathering, please email allyson@girlygatherings.com

Crown Cookies

2010-07-15T23:11:00.000-07:00

Happy 1st birthday to Prince Blake!

To order Couture Cookies for your next party, please email allyson@girlygatherings.com

Surf's Up!

2010-07-13T15:11:00.000-07:00

Aloha!

One of my customers asked me to create some surf cookies for her son's birthday party.

Using the graphic design that Posh Pixels made for her, this is what I came up with!

To order cookies for your next event, please email allyson@girlygatherings.com

And the winner is....

2010-07-02T17:20:00.000-07:00

{Crab Shack Design by TomKat Studio}

I am happy to announce that the winner of Girly Gatherings' very first giveaway is....

Joy from Sylva, North Carolina!

Joy, please email me at allyson@girlygatherings.com and let me know when you'd like your 2 dozen Couture Cookies!

Winner was chosen via Random.org

Congratulations Joy!

Two Dozen Couture Cookies! CONTEST CLOSED

2010-06-27T10:55:00.000-07:00

To celebrate all the recent Couture Cookie orders, we are hosting our very first giveaway - two dozen Couture Cookies {free shipping too} for one lucky reader!

Edible Image Couture Cookies are tailored to match exactly with your party theme!

Crab Shack design from TomKat Studio

Hand Iced Couture Cookies

Recognize our logo?

All of our cookies are handmade and we customize them to coordinate with your event. Girly Gatherings' Couture Cookies will make a fabulous addition to your party!

There are FIVE WAYS to enter this giveaway:

1. Leave a comment here and tell us what occasion/theme you would use our cookies for

2. Become a fan of Girly Gatherings' FACEBOOK page and leave a comment here that you did {if you're already a fan, then you can suggest our page to your friends instead!}

3. Post about our giveaway on your own Facebook page and leave a separate comment here with the link

4. Post about our giveaway on your blog and leave a separate comment here with the link

5. Follow our blog!

Contest ends Friday July 2nd at 5pm pacific time.

Good luck everyone!

Pink Zebra Cookies!

2010-06-19T02:15:00.000-07:00

My daughter Caroline brought home a pink trimmed, zebra striped birthday invitation to her little friend's birthday party tomorrow afternoon.

Won't these be so cute to bring along with the gift for the birthday girl?

Crab Shack Birthday Party

2010-06-17T15:46:00.000-07:00

I made these cookies for the {wonderful} Kim of the TomKat Studio for her son's Crab Shack themed party using her party circle designs!

If you haven't been to her website, you should definitely check it out, it's quite fabulous!

{Photos courtesy of Vicki Lynn Photography}

A Harley Davidson Father's Day

2010-06-17T13:12:00.000-07:00

Can you tell that these were made for the Harley Dealership?

Happy Father's Day Downtown Harley!

Individual Graduation Cakes

2010-06-13T14:54:00.000-07:00

We met Cher (who has the MOST FABULOUS home by the way) at the Girls Night Out event back in April. She had asked if we could make her some of the same cakes we displayed at the event, for her daughter's upcoming college graduation party. These are banana cake with our Jack Danie's cream cheese frosting.

Never did we anticipate the little cakes we made for the Girls Night Out party would be so popular!

Couture Cookies now available for your next event!

2010-06-09T15:10:00.000-07:00

Hello there! Would you like to order some Couture Cookies for your special event?

Please email me: allyson@girlygatherings.com

Here is a sample of some of the Couture Confectioneries that can be tailored to your special event:

{Graphics by Michelle Tiek Photography and Design}

{Graphics by Posh Pixels Design Studio}

{Graphics by Keri's Custom Designs}

{Graphics by Paper Circus}

{Graphics by The TomKat Studio}

These were made as favors for a little girl who's birthday inviation was pink trimmed and zebra striped

{Graphics by Keri's Custom Designs}

Father's Day gifts for Downtown Harley Davidson, one of the local dealerships

This was a Movie Night themed party that I made two different sets of cookies for...one for the dessert table and one for the goodie bags.

Ice cream party cookies that would go fabulously with the TomKat Studio's Ice Cream Shoppe theme

These are so fun, they are a perfect compliment to just about any girly party!

Please email me: allyson@girlygatherings.com or give me a call at 253-495-4444 to place an order!

Minimum order is one dozen cookies. Most cookies are $36 per dozen. Orders two dozen and larger, price is $30 per dozen - please call or email for specific pricing.

I appreciate orders that are placed at least two weeks before your event. Cookies need to be paid for by the Friday before shipment.

I look foward to helping make your event fabulous!

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Movie Night Themed Brithday Party

2010-06-05T19:59:00.000-07:00

Happy 8th Birthday to my son Jake!

Being 8 years old, one of his favorite things are movies. Ask for a movie party and you shall receive!

My friend Shannon from SCRAP LIFT IT made these custom Movie Night invitations for me. Shannon is SO FABULOUS... I just told her my theme and she made 8 of these for me!

She has made all my kids' invites over the years, and she'll make some for you too! Email her over at luckygirl1207@hotmail.com and get your order started!

I designed Jake's entire party around her custom invitations....

These are the goodie bags I sent home with the kids. Edible image cookies! I chose three of Jake's favorite movies : Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Mall Cop. There is one of each cookie in the bags.

I wonder if these will make it all the way home?

Happy Birthday Buddy!

Littlest Pet Shop Birthday Cake & Goodies!

2010-05-22T16:38:00.000-07:00

Little Miss Lindsey turned 8 years old this afternoon!

Since her mom and I are friends, I offered to make Lindsey any kind of cake she wanted for her birthday, and as you can tell... she chose Littlest Pet Shop as her theme.

Her mother had decided against traditional "goodie bags" so I made 20 little kids 20 cupcakes and 20 cookies to take home with them!

I bought some 24 ounce cups and lids and used those as the to-go containers for the cupcakes. Believe it or not, this is THE BEST WAY to take a cupcake to go. There's a little lip in the bottom of the lid that keeps the cupcake from knocking around.

Yeah.... these didn't make it all the way home. The kids ate them immediately.

Sophia's Farm Party!

2010-05-15T18:19:00.000-07:00

Rebecca's daughter Sophia celebrated her 3rd birthday this afternoon with the funnest party ever! As you can tell from the cake, the theme was FARM!!

There were pony rides and even a petting zoo!

Kids never tire of hay... Rebecca hid little prizes throughout and let the kiddos jump and play in the hay.

Happy 3rd birthday Sophia!

I hope it was a good one!

Happy Birthday Rebecca!

2010-04-28T19:11:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to my dear friend and business partner Rebecca!

We celebrated a little bit early as she's headed out of town with her family this weekend for a birthday vacation.

Happy 30th dahling! Love you!

Fairy Cake

2010-04-26T21:01:00.000-07:00

This cake was made for a little girl named Fiona. Isn't that just the cutest name?

Her mother specifically wanted a cake to be designed with Cicely Mary Barker's flower fairies. If you look close, you can see them hanging out under their flowers on top of the cake.

Superman Cake

2010-04-26T20:55:00.000-07:00

This cake belonged to one happy little boy!

Off Road Jeep Cake

2010-04-23T21:03:00.000-07:00

My friend's wife called me and asked us to make her husband's 30th birthday cake. She didn't really know exactly what she wanted the cake to look like and told me I could make whatever I wanted. Then she says "He REALLY likes his Jeep."

I had asked my partner to do a quick drawing of a "Jeep" cake and a few minutes later I called her and told her that I had an idea... why don't we make a mountain scene with a road running up the cake? She said that was funny, that's exactly what she already drew!

Great minds think alike!

Girls Night Out Event

2010-04-17T09:49:00.000-07:00

We were invited to show off our goodies at one of the largest events in our area, "Girls Night Out". 650 tickets were available and they SOLD OUT prior the event.

We've added dessert tables as one of the things we offer and here's our very first one.

Since we were there to promote our business, we designed this table around our company logo.

Everything on this table is homemade, and although we had reserves, we could barely keep it stocked, things were selling left and right!

Some of things on the table were:

white cupcakes with lemon filling

chocolate cupcakes with raspberry filling

cake bites - chocolate cake mixed with cream cheese and drizzled with pink chocolate

Parisian macarons with white chocolate ganache filling

wedding cake with a damask print

cookies handmade with our company logo iced on them

homemade marshmallow

carrot cake with orange ginger cream cheese filling

banana cake with Jack Daniels cream cheese filling

red velvet cake with white chocolate cream cheese filling

The event director emailed me this morning and had this to say (!!)

"You guys were a huge hit last night. Everyone was talking about you. I took the banana cake back to my office and had to share it with 5 people. It was amazing! Not only did it look good it tasted incredible. Seriously one of the best cakes I have tasted. Way to go."

We had an absolute fabulous time and the entire event was a great success!

Nursery Rhyme Baby Shower Cake

2010-04-09T18:58:00.000-07:00

This cake was ordered for a baby shower with an old fashioned nursery rhyme theme.

There are edible images around the sides of the cake from the 'Hey Diddle Diddle' nursery rhyme.

SO CUTE!

Loving the expression on Humpty Dumpty's face!!

Easter Cookies

2010-04-04T08:58:00.000-07:00

We're going to Grandma's house for Easter, and I just couldn't resist making these bunny cookies for the kids!

Martini Cupcakes

2010-04-01T21:24:00.000-07:00

Would it be weird if I asked for an invitation to this party?

Abby's 1st Birthday Cake

2010-03-27T21:54:00.000-07:00

This cake was for a darling little girl named Abby who turned 1 this week!

True Religion Jeans Birthday Cake

2010-03-19T17:50:00.000-07:00

This cake was ordered at the last minute for a 16th birthday. Her mother couldn't think of a cake design that she wanted, but she did say that her daughter loves designer jeans.

I have to admit, I have several pairs of these jeans, so we knew exactly how to make the tag!

I hope she LOVES it! You only turn sixteen once. Wasn't it John Mellencamp that said "Hold on to 16 as long as you can... changes come around real soon, make us women and men."

So true.

Cupcakes For a Wedding Rehearsal Dinner

2010-03-17T21:27:00.000-07:00

These were ordered for a rehearsal dinner held in a banquet room at a restaurant. The restaurant wanted to charge $10 a head for dessert. For 50 people. Clearly, I am in the wrong business!

The happy couple has chosen peacock colors for their wedding. Without making the cupcake look like a peacock, I think these turned out pretty good. :)

Poker Tournament Cake

2010-03-06T15:20:00.000-08:00

We were asked to make any kind of cake we wanted for a Poker Tournament. We decided on a house of cards cake. I think it turned out well!

Everything on this cake is edible, including the cards!

Nicole's Birthday Cake

2010-02-14T10:22:00.000-08:00

The birthday girl's favorite colors are pink and black!

Suzie's Birthday Cake

2010-01-15T19:54:00.000-08:00

My friend Suzie's birthday is coming up and we are going to surprise her at her favorite restaurant. She thinks it's just going to be her and her husband for dinner...

I hope she loves this cake.

How could she not? It has a boa on it, and little sparkly jems!

Happy Birthday Suz!

Zoo Animal Baby Shower Cake

2010-01-08T19:47:00.000-08:00

This order came from a wonderful lady that I met at a dinner party. She was throwing the mother-to-be a zoo animal themed shower to coordinate with the nursery decor.

How cute did this cake turn out??

Sports Cake

2009-12-16T21:16:00.000-08:00

Kayla, who turned 17 today is all about high school sports! She's lettered in basketball, softball and soccer and wants to be an ESPN sports announcer when she gets out of college (she's going on a soccer scholarship!).

I had her stepmom send us a picture of her letterman's jacket... the logo on the jersey is an exact duplicate of the picture on the back of her jacket. Even the way her name appears on the back matches her jacket!

I learned from Kayla's stepmom, that they are both fans of our cakes!! (yay!) Kayla really wanted one of our couture cakes for her birthday, but didn't think it was in the cards. She was SO surprised when her dad and stepmom surprised her with this!

Everything on this cake is edible, except for the ribbon at the base of the cakes. The flavor is chocolate with *white chocolate cream cheese* filling.. yum!

Caroline's Glamour Cake

2009-12-12T22:44:00.000-08:00

I made this for my daughter's 6th birthday. She was having a 'glamour' party, so what is more fitting than a bottle of nail polish?

All the little girls loved it! My favorite part was the filling. It was a chocolate cake with cream cheese filling *that I tinted pink*!

Very Glamorous if I do say so myself!

Bengals Cake

2009-10-17T13:49:00.000-07:00

This is a birthday cake for a 7 year old boy named Luke, who's a major Bengals fan! His Dad ordered the cake and had only one request: Ochocinco and Palmer jerseys somewhere on the cake.

Lucky for us, we had a secret trick up our sleeves... and everything on this cake is edible!

His son was SO cute when he saw it. He yelled "Dad, it's SO COOL!"

That just made my day!

Bustier Cake

2009-10-03T17:08:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for my friend Ron's birthday party. I had a tough time trying to figure out what kind of cake to make. A traditional two tier cake didn't really suit him.

This cake definitely says 'masculine' while staying fabulous at the same time!

This was surprisingly easy to make, and was a big hit at the party!

Megan's Feather Boa Cake

2009-09-19T20:33:00.000-07:00

This was a cake for my next door neighbor, Megan, who was turning 6. How fabulous is this for her?

No cake for a little girl is complete without a feather boa and a little bling!

Lime Green & Black Wedding Cake

2009-09-09T18:37:00.000-07:00

We were asked to make a cake for a lime green and black themed wedding.

The bride wore a lime green dress and wanted everything to coordinate. She and her husband came up with the design for their cake!

Wedding Cake

2009-08-28T17:01:00.000-07:00

This cake belonged to one of the prettiest weddings ever! The bride's colors were tangerine, lime and yellow. The space the couple chose was industrial chic with with walls and walls of windows looking onto a park!

The cake was a very simple white, with chocolate colored satin ribbons. We asked the florist to make the cake topper using flowers from the bride's boquet, to ensure that everything matched perfectly!

50th Anniversary Cake

2009-08-08T12:52:00.000-07:00

This cake was for the sweetest couple! Their son and daughter-in-law ordered this cake for their anniversary party.

We kept it simple, plain white with gold organza ribbons. The wooden 50 was spray painted with gold glitter paint.

Emma's Fashion Cake

2009-08-01T18:52:00.000-07:00

This cake was ordered for a 9 year old's birthday party. Her mother said that she likes all things girly and fabulous! I'd say that she came to the right place, wouldn't you?

HA HA

This cake was made using edible images. All three tiers are different. The top tier has purses, shoes, perfume and dress forms on it. The second tier has flowers and words that say 'These are a few of my favorite things'. The bottom tier has pink and black presents.

Very girly and VERY fabulous!

Lightening McQueen

2009-07-18T19:14:00.000-07:00

Lightening McQueen is every 4 year old boy's life! Jonathan's dad had a very specific design in mind when he ordered this cake. He even sent us a picture!

Everything on this cake is edible, right down to the 'Rust-eze' logo on the hood of the car!

Alexa's 1st Birthday

2009-07-11T20:31:00.000-07:00

What a stylish cake for a little girl's 1st birthday!

American Flag Cake

2009-07-05T14:14:00.000-07:00

This is a cake that I made for a party at my home on the 4th of July. I doubled my standard white cake recipe, and poured it onto two cookie sheets, to make a traditional sheet cake. It's frosted and filled with homemade cream cheese frosting, and adorned with blueberries and raspberries. Using the left over frosting, I piped stars in between the raspberry stripes. To make sure that I had 7 red stripes and 6 white stripes, I measured the width of the cake and divided by 13. Then I made marks with a toothpick at the appropriate intervals.

I think it turned out fabulous! Everyone ate it while we were watching the neighborhood fireworks. What a fun day this was!

Elmo & Cookie Monster Birthday Cake

2009-06-20T19:32:00.000-07:00

A little boy's uncle ordered this birthday cake for his 2 year old nephew. We were very excited about how Elmo and the Cookie Monster turned out!

The Tiki Bar is Open!

2009-06-13T19:35:00.000-07:00

Happy 35th birthday to Marcus! Rebecca made this cake for a birthday party that had a Hawaiian Luau theme.

Loving the Tiki Gods!

School's Out!

2009-06-11T19:21:00.000-07:00

This hamburger cake was made for an end of the school year bash.

Rebecca did an outstanding job! I've seen several hamburger cakes and this one is by far the very best I've seen.

Everything looks so life-like!

R2D2 cake

2009-06-06T20:42:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for my son's 7th birthday. Like any 7 year old, he's ABSOLUTLEY obsessed with Star Wars. So many little buttons this guy has on him!

I think the adults were more impressed than the kids... the kids wanted to know why he didn't light up, and how come he didn't talk!

Lindsey's 7th Birthday

2009-05-16T20:50:00.000-07:00

The colors on this cake were taken right from the party invitation to make sure it coordinated with all the party favors...

My favorite part are the jewels on the tips of the crown!

Sophia's 2nd Birthday Luau

2009-05-09T20:58:00.000-07:00

Rebecca made this fabulous cake for her daughter's 2nd birthday that was Luau themed.

I love all the detail on the surfboards!

Downtown Harley Davidson's Grand Opening

2009-04-25T21:02:00.000-07:00

Downtown Harley Davidson in Renton, Wa had their Grand Opening party on April 25th of this year.

Rebecca and Kim spent hours hand cutting the flames and it literally took me all day to make this cake. It was worth it though! The radio stations from Seattle were there and kept announcing 'Girly Gatherings' on air!!

Carter's Farm Cake

2009-04-23T18:45:00.000-07:00

This cake order came to us from one very frantic mother of a soon to be 1 year old. She had ordered a cake from a local baker well in advance of her party. The week of the party she could not get the baker to return her phone calls. How's that for anxiety while planning your only child's 1st birthday party!

She was in desperate need of a favor, and to top it off, the party was in 3 days and on Memorial Day weekend! Both my business partners were going out of town, and it was my husband's birthday. Long story short, we were able to move things around and get this done for her! Did I mention that we practically gave this cake away too? The other baker had quoted her a grocery store price for the cake. Yikes!!

Your first born only turns 1 once, right?

Good cake Karma...good cake Karma!

21st Anniversary Cake

2009-04-21T21:07:00.000-07:00

This little beauty was ordered by a VERY thoughful husband for his 21st wedding anniversary. We asked him what the colors in his wedding were so we could make the cake special for his wife. The only color he could rememeber was pink. :)

Do you see the glass bear on top of the cake? He gave that bear to his wife on their first date over 21 years ago. How sweet is that to have it put on a cake?

Bird Cake

2009-04-20T18:58:00.000-07:00

We made this cake for a Southern Living party. Rebecca has always wanted to make a "bird" cake and she jumped at the chance to make this one!

Underneath the pretty robin's egg blue color is a banana cake with Jack Daniels cream cheese frosting!

**Mmm Mmm**

80's Night!

2009-04-19T15:11:00.000-07:00

My girlfriends (and business partners!) made me this "awesome" cake for my birthday this year! I had an 80's themed party at my house. Everyone dressed up and we all had a fabulous evening!

My favorite thing about this cake is the stuff on top... there's a VHS movie cover from the Tom Cruise 'Cocktail' movie (which was the first R rated movie I ever snuck into at 12 years old!) a 'Yo MTV Raps!" sign, a Tiffany tape cover and a Keds logo! Totally 80s!

**LOVE IT!**

Brandi's Rock-N-Roll Cake

2009-03-28T21:14:00.000-07:00

Brandi's husband saw one of our cakes at a birthday party and ordered a cake for his wife's birthday. Like most husbands, he was a little tongue tied trying to describe his wife and what she liked. We did figure out that she's very Rock-N-Roll.

I think this cake does a great job of saying Rock-N-Roll, right down to the flames on the top and to the small heart with wings on the second tier!

Maria's Daisy Cake

2009-03-19T15:26:00.000-07:00

When we received the order for this cake, all they told us was that the birthday girl like daisies and her favorite color was teal.

She LOVED the cake!

Roaring 20's Party

2009-02-15T21:31:00.000-08:00

Rebecca made this cake for a murder mystery themed birthday party that she was throwing. How fun is that?

This cake defines the 20's with the fish net stockings, pearls, feathers, and of course the flapper fringe!

Bridal Shower Cake

2009-01-05T16:42:00.000-08:00

This is a traditional 'Tiffany' blue and white bridal shower cake with fresh white flowers on top.

Hawiian Bridal Shower Cake

2008-04-01T16:05:00.000-07:00

Rebecca made this cake for her friend's bridal shower in Hawaii. Being the resourceful girl she is, she decided to use local flowers from the florist in Hawaii.

Tres chic!