7th Birthday - Mostly Minions... also a Joker and some Fruit Kebabs!

 

The Minion Cake!

This was surprisingly easy; just really, a LOT bigger than I expected. I had the dome shape for the top, so that kind of determined what size the minion was. See the picture below.... that is 4 layers plus the dome. And the layers are all normal cake tin size! :o

 

 

However... it WAS cool.

I made Minion cupcakes for their party bags

 



 

And Minion Biscuits for the feast!

 

The big bowl to the left is just mixed up breakfast cereal with smarties; a special snack-time favourite of my kiddies, and a special request from the birthday girl!

Most of this is standard party food - pizza, chopped veggies, crisps, popcorn (in minion-eyed French Fry boxes), biscuits, sweeties and fruit salad. The wine glasses are yellow and purple jello. :-)

After food we had a wee craft - I had prepped a ton of toilet roll holders and cut out loads of eyes and accessories on sticker paper.

 



 

Even the boys enjoyed this activity - and this is what they made!

 

Our other main game (other than pass the parcel!) was this one:

 

We had two purple minion toys which they threw at the stack of yellow minions. The yellow minions are baby formula tins, wrapped in yellow paper and decorated. :) They really loved this!

 

 

I didn't want the kids to have to beat up a yellow minion for the piñata so decided to go purple instead, they are baddies after all! :)

 

Here are my three minions! (The glasses were in the piñata!)

 

 

For her actual Birthday, I had to live up to her big brother's standard again so I made fruit kebabs and stuck them into a half melon for her class. It looked very impressive and everyone thought I'd put in a huge amount of effort - there were 20 kebabs and including all of the chopping it probably only took about an hour to make them all. I left them lying flat until just before taking them into her class when I stuck them all in.

And lastly, her birthday cake at home on her birthday night - she has a strange infatuation with the Joker, so I made a brownie and just used pre-coloured rolling icing to decorate him as the Lego Joker. It wasn't the prettiest job I've ever done because I had very little purple icing, and couldn't for the life of me manage to make more with the colours I had, but she was happy! :)

10th Birthday - Fruit Cake, Pancake Cake and Minecraft!

 

Nothing makes this boy happier than a fruit cake! As it happened, his class were doing a sponsored walk to the nearby forestry park on his birthday so I drove down there to meet them to give them this cake for a wee energy boost before walking back to school! :)

 

 

What I started with!

 

The base layer

 

 

 Cake #2 - Pancakes layered with nutella

 

 

And a Minecraft Cake for his 'party' which again was just a few friends over for swimming and a movie. :) It's chocolate cake squares, Victoria sponge squares, tiffin (with no fruit) squares and rice krispie squares, and jello, also cut into squares for the water! A few toothpicks to hold it in place, and they could just help themselves to bite sized pieces - perfect!

9th Birthday - Three Cakes - Fruit, Pinata and Lego!

So the time finally came that my biggest boy was too old for a 'themed' party. :( However, after the success of his fruit cake last year, I thought I would surprise him by making one on his birthday this year and taking it in to school for his class to share at snack time. :-)

 

He is an absolute fruit-a-holic so nothing made him happier than this cake! <3

 

Of course we needed a cake for home too.... so I thought I'd try a piñata cake, filled with smarties!

And finally, he did have a small party on the day after his birthday; we went swimming then back to the house for pizza, party food and some TV or video games or something like that with 3 friends. He didn't give me ANY ideas for his cake at all so I went with a lego theme.

First I baked the cake, but I needed a hollowed out cake so I put a silicone baking loaf tray in the middle of my cake while baking it. (The cake is two types marbled, that's what the lines are)

 

Once baked, I covered the exterior with chocolate lego pieces (I bought a mold on eBay then coloured white chocolate for the top pieces) and bought some cheap minifigures to decorate.

Blue Jell-O (sourced on eBay as you can't get it in UK stores!) for the water (which I had set in the silicone tray used for the mold when baking, to get the right size)

 

It was a hit, and the boys loved just helping themselves to the pieces of Lego and jelly! :)

8th Birthday Day 2 - Fruit Cake!

My son doesn't really like cake all that much, but he has always had a weakness for fruit. I saw this idea on pinterest one day while looking up his Superhero cakes and I knew he had to have one! His eyes just about popped out of his head when he saw it, and between the five of us and his visiting friend, we demolished the lot!

 

 

 

The base is a watermelon, with cantaloupe slices around it and on top of it, decorated with the berries and grapes - all attached with popsicle sticks and toothpicks! :)