Review and Giveaway: Candy Stripe Party Christmas Set
I always love to hear about new local ventures, particularly those set up by enterprising clever mums thinking of business ideas from home. I spotted a new company recently via Facebook called Candy Stripe Party, an online party boutique. The business was set up by two mums called Thea and Kate who live very close to me. It turns out that we have mutual friends in common and having had a look at the Candy Stripe Party website, I’m personally thrilled to find such pretty and unusual party sets for children all in one place.
This is the sort of stuff you would usually see in a Martha Stewart or a Donna Hay feature. I love their baking cups, the delicate twine, the cake push-up containers and their paper straws, in particular. I’ve also used the Meri Meri cupcake kits before and the cases stand up very well during baking. So, if you are planning a party for your little ones, do take a look – you can shop by party theme and colour. I know that Thea and Kate have plans to stock more items as the business grows.
I’m particularly fond of their current Christmas range and Candy Stripe Party would like to offer one of my readers the chance to win a Christmas party set for your little ones. We usually have a little table for the children at Christmas, where they can sit and eat snacks, clementines, gingerbread biscuits and cakes, so these plates and cups will come in very handy for us.
Please note that the mini milk bottles were purchased by myself from Dot Com Gift Shop (School milk bottles in a crate RRP £9.99) and they will not form part of the prize.
The yummy cupcakes featured in these photos were made to a recipe by Sarah at Maison Cupcake for Speculoos Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting. If you haven’t tried Lotus caramelised biscuit paste, keep a look out for it – it is available in the UK now at Waitrose and it sits next to the Nutella. It is made from those lovely little caramalised bicuits that are usually individually packaged and it’s highly addictive!
The photos were taken during a recent Food Styling workshop at my home, which I’ll be writing lots more about soon.
Here’s how to enter the Candy Stripe Party giveaway –
Good luck to Thea and Kate with their gorgeous new little local venture and many thanks for the Candy Stripe samples.
My little girl loves anything sausages whether on stick, in roll, or on its own!
Jelly and Icecream, always.
Chocolate Cake
My little boy loves mince pies
Mini Pizzas
cocktail sausages drizzled with honey and sesame seeds always go down well with the kids
Cheese straws
cocktail sausages and any sort of cake!!
My son always go for cheese and anything sweet like a chocolate finger
My kids love the home made chicken nuggets & the humongous quantites of plain crisps & nibbles that are consumed around xmas, plus lots of chocs – they are deffo my girls!!
Very pretty candy stripe set, never seen any like this. will luck great for my kids party.. heres hoping.. Good luck
Festive shaped biscuits
sausage roll, vegetarian samosas and pancake rolls
sausage rolls
sausages on sticks
Cheese footballs
cocktail sausages
Little cocktail sausages im lucky if they make it to the table!
Good old crisps !
my kids love cheese sarnies, sausage rolls and cup cakes!
Caramel Shortcake!
Jelly and Ice cream
My mother-in-law always bakes cup cakes for the partys, the kids love them!
chicken nuggets
Cowboy pies winners every time
Sausage rolls!
Probably cocktail sausages
My kids love jelly boats
mini cocktail sausages
my sons fav is cupcakes , he usually goes for homemade over shop bought too 🙂
Mince Pies with icing on the top. The kids love them
Pigs in Blankets – They love them
sausage rolls
Sausage Rolls. She cannot get enough
My nephew’s favourite party food is those bacon streaky crisps – they’re vegetarian too!
stollen bread
They love mini scotch eggs cut in half, they pretend they are eyes and entertain us before eating them – sweet!
cheese and pine apple hedgehog
Pigs in blankets
Mince Pies 😀
Cheese straws, bread sticks and salad!
Strawberry Trifle, yummy!
My nan’s lovely mince pies ! x
Sausage Stars , i make them every year .
My niece loves my Christmas cake, she thinks it makes her go wobbly because it’s got brandy in it!
sausage rolls.
cheese straws
mini sausages
cheese and pineapple on sticks
sausage rolls
Mince pies
Sweet dishes, and the cakes look fab, of course I brought jars of Specaloos back from France, so will use some of it and make these scrumptious cupcakes.
They look gorgeous and so does the candy stripe kit! Great to see they came out well for you too! x
Flynn : sausage rolls Melody : cake cake oh and more cake!
Sausage Rolls
Has to be suasage rolls
Mini scotch eggs! Breadcrumbs-Good. Sausage meat. Good. Egg. GOOOOD!
mince pies
Chocolate Krispie cakes- so simple, yet so yummy
Spring Rolls
jelly and icecream
I don’t have kids but a nephew and two week-old nieces. The Neph LOVES cake. So much so that today he has spent all day asking me if he will have cake again at his birthday….in march
carrots at any time of the year always disappear before anything with my kids
little sausages
cocktail sausages, they could eat them before they get to the table
Mince pies – my kids love them! We are having a kids christmas party on christmas eve so these would come in very handy! Fingers crossed x