Pops by Haley arranged servings of its signature layered cake pops in the floral arrangements on the bars in the BMW lounge.
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'The New Yorker' Reception
As the event came to an end, guests were given to-go boxes of District Doughnut adorned with stickers featuring the magazine’s noted character Eustice Tilley.
Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The New Yorker
Inspired by the Carousel song "Real Nice Clambake," the dinner menu offered mussels, clams, and poached lobster. For dessert, guests ate raspberry, lime, and white-chocolate-blueberry macarons plated with polka-dotted ribbons. At intermission, they returned to the Graham Room for more desserts including boozy snow cones and miniature cupcakes.
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Wedding Trend: Watercolors
Guests painted cookies with watercolor paints to illustrate the watercolor trend. Cookies came from Joanie and Leigh's Cakes.
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Chef and host Todd Gray created ice cream on site with liquid nitrogen in the Exclusive Experience.
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For the opening of its Midwest flagship store in Chicago in December 2011, Kiehl's created an on-site carnival with molecular gastronomy treats, such as pieces of paper that tasted like cotton candy, by Moto chefs and Top Chef: Texas contestants Richie Farina and Chris Jones.
Photo: Jack Edinger
Perrier Street Art—Brooklyn
Mirrorball produced a launch party for the collection in Brooklyn on September 25. To play off the event's painterly theme, Neuman's Kitchen presented a colorful fondue station with a selection of sweet treats for dipping.
Photo: Jason Malihan
Emoticon Cookies
Eleni’s Cookies in New York offers a new collection of emoji cookies that shows a variety of the expressive faces often used to illustrate texts and social media posts. Eleni’s can customize the treats with corporate logos and messaging.
Photo: Courtesy of Eleni's Cookies
Carnivale, the colorful Latin restaurant in the West Loop, offered takeaway bags of a traditional carnival treat: pink cotton candy.
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Tipsycake created a custom confection for BizBash. The cake inside was blue to reflect BizBash's corporate hue.
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Send a few favorite photos to Texas-based Manjar (Spanish for “delicacy”) and the bakery can turn them into edible Instagram posts for you, as well as create sugar cookies frosted to look like the popular social media company’s camera icon. There is no minimum order, and clients can send in as many different photos as they’d like. For larger orders, call at least two weeks in advance. Also on Manjar’s hipster-approved cookie menu are sweets shaped and frosted to look like Wayfarer sunglasses, mustaches, Polaroid photos, and vintage cameras.
Photo: Courtesy of Manjar
Boston’s Wicked Good Cupcakes puts a new spin on the classic dessert with its Wicked Good to Go cupcake-in-a-jar treats. Each glass jar holds the equivalent of two cupcakes, and there are 15 flavor options, including vanilla birthday cake, sea-salted caramel, and red velvet. For corporate orders, the jars can include custom labels or colored sprinkles and fondant toppers. Custom Wicked Good to Gos start from $8.50 for an eight-ounce jar; shipping is available nationwide.
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For unique candies that will get guests talking, check out online sweets shop Sugarfina. The California-based company travels the world in search of gourmet candies and chocolates (think Belgian ale gummies, absinthe chocolate cordials, and matcha green tea caramels). The treats can be ordered for candy buffets in five-pound boxes ranging from $65 to $80, and consultants can be called upon to recommend a mix of candies for certain themes. Also available: stylishly packaged corporate gift options.
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For events in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Queens, Heartbreaker Baker offers its chewy, heart-shaped bar cookies. The treats come in 10 main cheekily named flavors, including Stuck on Yous (chocolate with gooey caramel and sea salt) and Fig It About Hers (oatmeal fig with an orange glaze). The mini versions go for $1.25 each, while the regular size costs $2.50, with a minimum order of 40 minis or 20 regulars. The cookies can come on platters or come individually wrapped with custom labels. Three days' advance notice is required, or five days' notice for custom labels; delivery is $15.
Photo: Steven M. Meyer
More stylish than your average Blow Pop: Designer Lollipop peddles spherical sweets that contain edible images—everything from fireworks and vintage lace, to world flags and the Aurora Borealis. Owner Priscilla Briggs can also create custom corporate logo lollipops. The handmade, individually wrapped treats start from $14 for six and can be shipped worldwide. There is a discount for orders of more than 120; large orders of from 600 to 1,000 take between 10 and 13 weeks to process.
Photo: Courtesy of Designer Lollipops
Brooklyn-based company Monsieur Singh hawked its lassi push pops, an Indian treat made with probiotic yogurt, mango, mint, and ginger.
Photo: Fred Blauth/BizBash
Mini Cupcakes in New York
Baked by Melissa offers a giant gumball machine that dispenses pods containing the company’s signature mini cupcakes at events. The machine can fit 2,000 pods, with a minimum order of 1,000.
Photo: Courtesy of Baked by Melissa
Mini cheesecake bites were topped with Impact Awards branding.
Photo: Elliot Sylman Photography
