Summer Desserts with MacKenzie-Childs Check Designs

I am authentically honored to be joining MacKenzie-Childs’ as one of their 2023 ambassadors. Being able to style and share MacKenzie-Childs’ iconic home decor accessories with you here is just, well, pie-in-the-sky kind of stuff.

*This post was written in collaboration with MacKenzie-Childs but all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Who is MacKenzie-Childs?

MacKenzie-Childs is known for its luxury handcrafted ceramic and enamel tableware, along with its furniture, home, and garden decor.

The brand is famous for its distinctive designs that combine vibrant colors and pattern-on-pattern surface decoration to create a fresh, original aesthetic best described as “tradition with a twist.”

For more than 35 years, the brand’s talented designers and artisans have created beautiful, original products that add joy and whimsy to homes throughout the world. They believe in expressing artistic freedom through imagination, embracing the belief that every design should invoke joy and that every corner of the home—inside and outside—deserves to feel original, fun, and considered.

Summer Dessert with MacKenzie-Childs Sterling Check Around the Fire Pit

Sterling Check Enamel Collection

The MacKenzie-Childs’ Sterling Check is a more neutral, fresh take on the most iconic pattern, Courtly Check. The muted silver of the checks is accented with subtle yellow and blue painted pull-throughs.

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The Sterling Check Enamel products I’m using today for our summer desserts are:

• 1 x Sterling Check Enamel Pedestal Platter – Large
• 1 x Sterling Check Enamel Wine Cooler
• 1 x Sterling Check Enamel Appetizer Plates – Set of 4
• 1 x Sterling Check Enamel Practical Pitcher – Medium
• 1 x Sterling Check Enamel Large Salt & Pepper Shakers

What’s for Summer Dessert?

First up is lemon cake!

One of my favorite cakes, made right here in town by Mother Myrick’s,

is the infamous Lemon LuLu cake, also available online.

I like to order the 6 Individual Mini Lemon Lulu Cakes too.

Aren’t they the perfect bite-size cakes? And just look at these delicacies now displayed on MacKenzie-Childs’ Sterling Check appetizer plates. Super cute!

You may also enjoy the Celebrate Holiday Preparations With Christmas Plaids, Checks, and Hot Chocolate Mugs post.

Pulling out the Blues and Yellows in the Sterling Check

Paired with vintage blue glassware, which mates well with the blues woven through this Sterling Check pattern. See more of the glassware in the post, The Best Vintage Market and an Antique Haul.

The large Sterling Check cake stand is absolutely fabulous, too.

It fits the large yellow Lemon LuLu cake beautifully! Also, pulling out the yellows woven throughout this neutral checkered design.

All the enamel pieces in this collection are ideal for outdoor summer celebrations.

A bouquet of lilacs and bleeding hearts picked from our backyard work charmingly in MacKenzie-Childs’ Sterling Check medium enamel, Practical Pitcher.

And can we talk about these large salt and pepper shakers?

Aren’t they absolutely rad, haha? My husband loves them!

Top off your summer festivities with MacKenzie-Childs’ matching Sterling Check Enamel Wine Cooler too.

See more on how we designed this fire pit in the post, How to Design a Backyard Fire Pit Conversation Set, and the final fire pit reveals in the post, Backyard Conversation Set and Fire Pit Patio Reveal.

You may also enjoy seeing the MacKenzie-Childs’ Blue Checkered Pattern around our fire pit in Maine too.

Summer Dessert with MacKenzie-Childs Sterling Check on the Porch

Now let’s head up to the porch for a second summer dessert with our friends over at MacKenzie-Childs.

The days are getting warmer here, so enjoying dessert on the porch will be a bit cooler.

The Patriotic summer holidays are upon us so a little red, white, and blue is in order for hosting this Sterling Check collection.

I paired the Sterling Check appetizer plates on our porch table with a traditional red and white check placemat, dark blue glassware, and floral napkins.

We’ll start off with some fresh watermelon and Maine blueberries. Accompanied by my mother’s sterling silver flatware.

Add in a summer bouquet of colorful flowers highlighted in MacKenzie Childs’ Sterling Check wine cooler on top of their fabulous large pedestal platter. It all makes for an ideal heightened summer table centerpiece.

Add a delicious cake as the main summer dessert course, and light a couple of candles for ambiance.

The Sterling Check medium pitcher accompanies the table with fresh water on the side.

The MacKenzie-Childs’ Sterling Check Enamelware works so beautifully on our porch table and on evenings enjoyed around the fire pit. We just love this collection and hope you do too!

You may also enjoy the post, 9 Summer Porches You’ll Fall in Love With.

MacKenzie-Childs Yearly Barn Sale

MacKenzie-Childs biggest and best sale of the year returns from July 20-24, 2023 with thousands of the most iconic items up to 60% off! Whether you’re just starting your collection or adding new pieces to your current collection, you’ll find several incredible items you won’t want to pass up. It’s quite literally Christmas in July, and even better – you can do all the best shopping from the comfort of your couch.

And we love our Courtly Check Enamel Cheese Course, Enamel Practical Pitcher – Medium, and Supper Club Cheese Knife Set for dessert this summer here at our home in Maine.

This set isn’t just for cheese though. Here we are enjoying summer desserts on a rainy foggy day on the coast.

Enjoy this Fall & Halloween DIY Grazing Table with MacKenzie-Childs as well.

And you won’t want to miss this Celebrate Holiday Preparations With Christmas Plaids, Checks, and Hot Chocolate Mugs post with MacKenzie-Childs, too.

I’ve been a long-time fan of MacKenzie-Childs. In these posts, you may see earlier features like Simple Easter Tablescape with MacKenzie-Childs and Halloween Decor with MacKenzie-Childs.

I’m so glad you dropped by, and if you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you enjoyed your visit with us here today at our Home in Vermont.

Be sure to check out our Home in Coastal Maine, where we spend summers and weekends when we are craving a walk on the beach or a visit with old friends.

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