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Fancy Cupcake Extravaganza

Aneta H By Aneta H  in Birthday

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Party Recap

Maya is a big cupcake fan ,so she asked for a Fancy Birthday Party Cupcake for her special day. Since we had a lot of guests and a very beautiful weather, we set up party in our backyard. As usual, I hang a name banner for a birthday girl and few cupcake garlands for that special occasion. Table was filled with lunch type of foods, lots of salads, tarts, pizza, fruit, cheese, crackers, all easy to grab and snack on. For a main activity, I made about 120 cupcakes in 3 different flavors, vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. After guests had lunch , run and played around the backyard, we have started our fancy cupcake project. First, kids designed their aprons for their bakeries .I got a great selection of colorful aprons from Oriental Trading Company, and that worked out really great. After that, everyone was asked to design a label for their bakeries to attached to their personal cupcake boxes. The big finale ,of course, was decorating cupcakes . I had big plans for running a demo about using different techniques/ tips etc. for cupcake decorating, but since we had about 18 kids, very eager to decorate, not much into listening, I had skipped that part and hand it out frosting to then and let them do the free style decorating, which turned out to be just a perfect way to do it. After that we finished Maya's party with Happy Birthday song and big Birthday Cupcake :). For more details check out my blog http://stitchinnetka.blogspot.com/2012/05/mayas-fancy-cupcake-birthday.html

Idea

Party Highlights

  • Best Dressed

    birthday girl

  • Desserts

    cupcakes

  • Activities / Games

    cupcake decorating, apron decorating, cupcake box decorating

  • Budget

    $250

  • Party Favors

    cupcakes, aprons

  • Best Moment

    cupcake decorating

  • What People Ate

    pizza, fruit salad, mushroom tart, cabbage salad, lentil salad with South African spices, cheese platter, crackers, hummus, pretzels

  • What People Drank

    lemonade, apple juice

  • Most Touching Moment

    designing logos for bakeries

  • Funniest Moment

    blowing candles

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4 comments

  • Melissa N

    Melissa N wrote:

    looks like lots of fun! cute idea!

  • Jonika J

    Jonika J wrote:

    This is a cute idea. Where did you get the cupcake boxes? I have only found the ones that hold one cupcake.

  • Alejandra G

    Alejandra G wrote:

    Like your party :-)

  • Alejandra G

    Alejandra G wrote:

    Look at my parties look at weddings and you'll find my parties!