Friday, September 9, 2011

Minnie Mouse First Birthday Party

My little girl turned one in April and she had two birthday parties due to my family living so far away! I made the cake and the cupcakes and thanks to my friend Kristy's Cricut Machine (its on my wish list) I was able to make her party extra special. I used the Wilton Giant Cupcake Pan to make her cake and I made Chocolate Cupcakes with oreos as ears! We used the disney cartridge for her banner and the adorable minnie mouse bows that I hot glued to toothpicks to use in the cupcakes!!

A neat trick for the giant cupcake cake is to use the cake mold to make a candy shell cupcake liner. I used yellow candy melts for this cake. Just melt candy in microwave then pour into mold (i sprayed my mold with cooking spray to make sure it didn't stick) using spatula to coat the sides all the way up to the top. Then place in the freezer for at least an hour. You have to do a bit of shaving on the bottom of the cupcake cake but it looks pretty darn cute in its own liner!!

I also made an adorable dum dum sucker display in the shape of Minnie Mouse's head. It was very easy but a bit time consuming. Use one larger styrofoam ball and two smaller styrofoam balls. I cut the sucker sticks in half then covered all three balls leaving a bit of a small circle shape bare spot in the bottom of each smaller ball. Then using wooden grill skews I attached the two smaller balls to the large one. I then filled in all the bare spots and placed it on top of a tin pail. I wanted to use a flower pot but during our car trip to Illinois it broke! I would suggest a flower pot for better stability. You could also decorate the pot to make it pretty! This was a big hit with the kids!!

The rest of the party was in the details. I used pretty flowers in vases. I had a friend make cake pops (since I already had a ton on my plate) and I made minnie mouse shaped sugar cookies (I bought the cookie cutter from Disney.com) wrapped in clear plastic bags tied with minnie mouse ribbon as gift favors! I also used minnie mouse napkins and plates that I purchased at Party City. Since her party was in the spring I lined our sidewalk with pretty pink and yellow Pinwheels and minnie mouse shaped pink cardstock that I hot glued to wooden gril skewers!
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