Drink up and have a cupcake.

Thought I'd do a party food and drink post linking on from my 21st birthday. A party is not complete without cute cupcakes and fruity drinks.

My Dad's fruity punch is famous with my friends every year. I added some strawberries, lime and lemon slices to this cute drink dispenser to add a bit more colour. 

A dear family friend of ours, Irene, is the most amazing cake maker EVER. Not only do they always look good, but they always taste incredible. 

This year it was travelling themed. As you can see it was a huge world map and then the sign post was labelled with 'The World Is Your Oyster' followed by 'Los Angeles', 'Paris' and 'Thailand' which are the places I've most recently visited, and then the last one was 'Croatia' which will be my next trip.

The main cake itself had fresh cranberries inside a soft sponge with cream, and then the suitcase and bag were chocolate cake! 

She also baked me gorgeous cupcakes which she is famous for amongst my friends. 

She's such a talented lady. 

These crab rolls were really simple to make. I mixed tinned crab meat with mayonnaise and fresh lemon juice, toasted sliced bread buns and then topped them with spring onion and cayenne pepper. 

My sister and I attempted to make some cupcakes, even though they were never going to be as good as Irene's. To add something extra, we placed a shot cup of cherry brandy into the middle. They were really easy to do, just normal vanilla buns with vanilla buttercream and then the plastic shot glasses were pressed down into the middle. 

One of my best friends Amy baked me this beautiful cake. Not only did it look adorable but it tasted so good. Healthy balance of fruit and sweets obviously, got to sneak in one of the five a day. 

We filled this sweet dispenser full of rhubarb and custards, jelly beans and little jelly babies. Some of my friends didn't see the 20p's provided next to it and were thinking they had to put their own in! It would have been pretty cheeky to make profit from my guests ha!

This isn't the best of pictures of the nacho pots I made, as from the side you could see the different layers of guacamole, salsa and sour cream. They were put into plastic shot glasses then I put a tortilla chip into the top. However learn from my mistake, don't add the crisp until you serve them as you can see from the front one they went pretty soggy!

Here's a grown up version of cheese on sticks. I cut a cherry tomato in half, and put a feta cube and piece of fresh basil in between.

These fruit kebabs were so easy to make and they look so refreshing. Basically just a fruit salad on kebab sticks. 

Unfortunately, I didn't have the chance to take any pictures of the drinks. I had jam jars for the mojitos, had pretty grey and cream striped straws, and I made the flower sticks you can just about see in the picture of my crazy friends Megan and Sadie. 

To make them, I bought a bunch of fake flowers from the market, pulled off the flower head and put them onto wooden kebab sticks. Then I stuck them in the long shot style glasses with lots of crushed ice. 

I want another party now! It went way too fast. 

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer, and making the most of it before Autumn comes. 

Lots of love, 

Olivia Dee xx