tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59822683736491459462024-03-05T04:11:47.995-08:00Fun Party ThemesKellenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07194945641349889060noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982268373649145946.post-77709577512933756052010-11-17T10:12:00.000-08:002010-11-17T10:12:29.600-08:00PIGGY CUPCAKES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.parenting.com/article/Child/Activities/Image-of-Piggy-Cupcakes" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_window"><img alt="piggy thumbnail" border="0" src="http://www2.worldpub.net/images/parenting/2010Cake_A_Pigs.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Source: parenting.com</em></div><div style="text-align: left;">Serves 24</div><h3>Ingredients:</h3><ul style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"><li>24 cupcakes baked in brown paper liners </li>
<li>1 can (16 oz) vanilla frosting </li>
<li>Red food coloring </li>
<li>1 tube (4.25 oz) black decorating icing </li>
<li>24 large pink marshmallows </li>
<li>48 chocolate chips </li>
<li>5 tablespoons pink decorating sugar </li>
</ul><h3>What you'll need:</h3><ul style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"><li>Clean scissors </li>
</ul><h3>Frosting the cupcakes:</h3><ol><li>Tint the vanilla frosting light pink with the food coloring. Spread the top of the cupcakes with some of the pink frosting and make smooth. </li>
</ol><h3>To complete the decoration:</h3><ol><li>Snip a ¼-inch thick slice from a marshmallow, crosswise. Dip the cut side of the thin marshmallow slice into the pink sugar to coat. Cut the sugared slice in half crosswise and form into 2 ear-shaped triangles. Reserve the larger piece of marshmallow for the pig's snout. Repeat with the remaining marshmallows. </li>
<li>Press the larger piece of the marshmallow, cut side down, onto the lower half of the cupcake for the pig's snout. </li>
<li>Press 2 sugared marshmallow ears into opposite edge of cupcake, as pictured. </li>
<li>Press the chocolate chips in for the piggy's eyes, pointed end down. </li>
<li>Pipe a mouth and nostrils onto the cupcake with the black decorating icing. </li>
</ol><h3>Cake Anatomy:</h3><div align="center"><img alt="piggy cupcake anatomy" height="221" src="http://www2.worldpub.net/images/parenting/2010Cake_Pigs_Anatomy.jpg" width="400" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Kellenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07194945641349889060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982268373649145946.post-8472053684750282952010-11-17T10:03:00.000-08:002010-11-17T10:07:32.992-08:00MONKEY CAKE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMeQg4tjIkf-4qCTumEBSPP-cZQVo58nnRWfrihaxV_lQp3_IhTay3DFt9eisZpqRtj7u4ABqrBxbMhAHhIFtN5utFu1XTB7XOD0MDjT_M3i3_Xh43ZqRCxdIQHPWZ8ZpiAemYXDeEG4o/s1600/CakePlanner_Monkey_fullsize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMeQg4tjIkf-4qCTumEBSPP-cZQVo58nnRWfrihaxV_lQp3_IhTay3DFt9eisZpqRtj7u4ABqrBxbMhAHhIFtN5utFu1XTB7XOD0MDjT_M3i3_Xh43ZqRCxdIQHPWZ8ZpiAemYXDeEG4o/s320/CakePlanner_Monkey_fullsize.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><em>Source: parenting.com</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<h3>Ingredients:</h3><ul style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"><li>1 (9-inch) round cake</li>
<li>2 chocolate-covered doughnuts</li>
<li>½ can (1 cup) vanilla frosting</li>
<li>Red food coloring</li>
<li>1 can (16 oz) chocolate frosting</li>
<li>½ cup chocolate sprinkles</li>
<li>2 brown M&M's or black jelly beans</li>
<li>2 miniature York peppermint patties</li>
<li>1 chocolate Twizzler</li>
</ul><h3>What you'll need:</h3><ul style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"><li>A bread knife</li>
<li>A serving platter</li>
<li>2 resealable sandwich-size plastic bags (Ziploc)</li>
<li>Kitchen shears or scissors </li>
</ul><h3>Trimming the cakes:</h3><ol><li>Place the cake on a clean work surface. Using the bread knife, trim a 1 ½-inch triangle-shaped notch from opposite sides of the cake (see template). Discard scraps. Place the trimmed cake onto a serving platter.</li>
<li>Cut ½ inch from one side of each doughnut. </li>
</ol><h3>For the white, red, and pink frosting:</h3><ol><li>Spoon ¼ cup of the untinted vanilla frosting into a resealable plastic bag.</li>
<li>Add enough red food coloring to 2 Tbsp of the vanilla frosting to tint it red and spoon it into a separate resealable plastic bag.</li>
<li>Add a few drops of the red food coloring to the remaining vanilla frosting to tint it a pale pink.</li>
</ol><h3>Frosting the cake: </h3><ol><li>Spread the chocolate frosting onto the top and sides of the cake, avoiding the lower half of the monkey's face.</li>
<li>Spread the pale-pink frosting into a kidney bean–shaped area over the monkey's mouth, chin, and cheeks, as pictured.</li>
<li>Press the chocolate sprinkles into the forehead, the top of the head, and the underside of the monkey's chin.</li>
</ol><h3>Assembling the cake: </h3><ol><li>Press the trimmed edges of the doughnuts onto the cake for the monkey's ears. Press the M&M's or the jelly beans into the center of the cake to make the monkey's nostrils.</li>
<li>Snip a very small corner from each bag of frosting. Pipe a red frosting line onto the pink part of the cake for the monkey's smile.</li>
<li>Pipe 2 white circles onto the top of the cake for the monkey's eyes and press the peppermint candies into them. Add a dab of white frosting for the sparkle in each eye, as pictured.</li>
<li>Snip the chocolate Twizzler into thin 2-inch strands with kitchen shears or clean scissors and insert them into the top of the cake for the monkey's hair.</li>
</ol><h3>Cake Anatomy:</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="monkey anatomy" height="290" src="http://www2.worldpub.net/images/parenting/CakePlanner_diagram_monkey.jpg" width="400" /> </div><br />
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<div align="center"></div><h3>Cake Cutout:</h3><div align="center"><img alt="monkey anatomy" src="http://www2.worldpub.net/images/parenting/CakePlanner_cutout_monkey.gif" /> </div>Kellenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07194945641349889060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982268373649145946.post-2039011680178090222010-11-17T09:52:00.000-08:002010-11-17T10:08:28.976-08:00OWL CAKE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipp0cULW2JgkizRIDPnngA5TO3ClSocf5ildgcS_m7WT7SiqL5mzmulcpWEuGWeKdKa7vNpQ69in-YXMpwG2rwUeJZ_n4xba8QTc92-gNXL2WFmaqMlNEPLaIRYeiDarDeemhD534LBl8/s1600/2-Owl_Cake_Large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipp0cULW2JgkizRIDPnngA5TO3ClSocf5ildgcS_m7WT7SiqL5mzmulcpWEuGWeKdKa7vNpQ69in-YXMpwG2rwUeJZ_n4xba8QTc92-gNXL2WFmaqMlNEPLaIRYeiDarDeemhD534LBl8/s320/2-Owl_Cake_Large.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><em>Source: parenting.com</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Serves 12</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><h3 style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Ingredients:</h3><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">2 cakes baked in 1-quart Pyrex bowls </li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">2 cakes baked in (12 oz) ovenproof glass bowls </li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">2 Oreo cookies </li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">5 banana Runts </li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">1 can (16 oz) chocolate frosting </li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">1 cup vanilla frosting </li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">2 tablespoons mini-chocolate chips </li>
<li>2 Junior Mints</li>
</ul><h3>What you'll need:</h3><ul style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"><li>A serving platter </li>
<li>A chopstick or wooden dowel </li>
<li>A resealable sandwich-size plastic bag (Ziploc)</li>
</ul><h3>Trimming the cakes:</h3><ol style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"><li>Trim the top side of all of the bowl cakes to make level. </li>
<li>Trim ½ inch from the curved bottom of one (1-quart) cake and place it wide side up on a serving platter. Spread the top of the cake with some of the chocolate frosting. Place the other quart cake on top, flat side down to make a ball. </li>
<li>Repeat the trimming and assembling process with the 2 (12 oz) bowl cakes. </li>
<li>Spread some frosting on the top of the larger ball and place the smaller ball cake on top as the head. Insert a chopstick or wooden dowel in the center to help balance the cakes (see template). </li>
</ol><h3>Frosting the cake:</h3><ol style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"><li>Spoon 1 Tbsp of the vanilla frosting into a resealable plastic bag. </li>
<li>Spread the remaining vanilla frosting on the front of the larger ball cake for the owl's chest. Make smooth. Dot the chest with the mini-chocolate chips as seen in photo. </li>
<li>Separate the Oreo cookies, leaving the cream on one side of 2 cookies for the eyes. </li>
<li>Cut one of the cream-free Oreo cookies in half with a serrated knife to make the ears. Press the cut cookies into the top of the cake for the ears. </li>
<li>Spread the remaining chocolate frosting over the top, sides and cookie ears. Make the head area smooth. Using the back of a spoon, lightly press against the chocolate frosting and pull to make feather-like peaks all over the body of the owl. </li>
</ol><h3>To complete the decoration:</h3><ol style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px;"><li>Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting. Pipe a dot of frosting on the head area and attach the cookies with cream for the eyes. Pipe a dot of vanilla frosting on the cookies and add the mints as the pupils. </li>
<li>Insert one banana Runt below the eyes for the owl's beak. Insert the remaining banana Runts into the bottom of the white chest area for the owl's feet. </li>
</ol><h3>Cake Anatomy:</h3><div align="center"><img alt="owl anatomy" height="296" src="http://www2.worldpub.net/images/parenting/2010Cakes_Owl_Anatomy.jpg" width="400" /> </div><br />
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<h3>Cake Cutout:</h3><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="owl cutout" height="201" src="http://www2.worldpub.net/images/parenting/2010Cakes_Cutout_Owl.jpg" width="400" /> </div>Kellenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07194945641349889060noreply@blogger.com0