It's always been a challenge to find fun activities for Avery's birthday. Kyndra's birthday is usually on or around the last day of school when there is tons of fun to be had outside. For AJ...not so much. We've gone bowling, roller skating, and swimming. All fun but nothing personalized. I was scrambling last weekend, panicked that I hadn't planned anything for her special day. Pinterest to the rescue! I found this fun idea from a really great blog, Foodlets, that I'll be visiting again!
Cupcake Wars!
It starts with supplies, mostly from the dollar store. Supplies include:
- Cake Mixes
- Pans
- Aprons
- Candy for toppings
- Sprinkles
- Cupcake liners
- Mixers
- Spoons
- Spatulas
- FROSTING! (thank you Mom!)
We choose teams from a hat and the first step was brainstorming ideas for their cupcake creations. Kyndra was suppose to be the Expert Chef and Decorator to help with any decorating ideas. She did end up feeling a little unneeded because these 4th graders had lots of great ideas of their own.
Each team had to choose two flavors for their cakes in case the other team got to the box first. They were drawing and even using organizational charts on their brainstorm sheet. Avery's team planned on making a mint chocolate cupcake with crushed up mints inside their batter. The other team decided to make a white cupcake with Nerds mixed inside using the "rainbow" theme.
Ready Set Go!
They had 1 hour and 30 minutes to bake and decorate.
How many eggs do you need?
The only person they were suppose to ask for help was Kyndra.
This worked for awhile but Mom and I did end up breaking that rule a few times.
Read your directions ladies.
I think these two photographs give you an idea of how involved and excited they were. It was so cool seeing them measuring, reading, talking, mixing, and laughing. I loved how serious they were about the task and really acted like little chefs.
Avery's team measured 1 1/2 cups oil instead of 1 1/3. I saw it happen and just held my tongue. The result was some very moist and delicious cupcakes!
On to filling the cupcake tins.
How much is 2/3 full?
Every good baker must make sure their batter tastes alright.
I was in charge of the oven...I can't believe we fit 48 cupcakes in there at once.
Next came decorating. Luckily Tony and Jaida got Avery some decorating tools for her birthday. The squeeze bags looked great but frosting kept squeezing out the top and onto the floor! I'm sure there is a trick to them but we didn't have time to figure it out.
Mints to top off the wintry mint chocolate cupcakes.
Look at the rainbow plate job in the background!
They were judged 50% on taste and 50% on display.
Our judges panel...one judge stepped up to the task so I also helped decide the winners.
In the end Avery's team won best tasting and the other team won best display.
They didn't even blink at there being two winners.
What a crew!
After all of that sugar you wouldn't think we needed any more but what do I know? These super chefs didn't seem to have any problem with an ice cream cake.
Ten candles! How did that happen?
Happy Birthday Avery Jo!
4 comments:
I love this Stacy. I am going to do this for Rylees 11th birthday. Thanks for such a great post
Very cool Stacy! Maybe you should start a kids party business:) I would hire you, then you would have to come see me-Heather
Great pictures of a fun party! Good job mom, Expert Chef, teams and judges!
It was awesome, everyone felt so invested and proud of their creations. . . You should have seen their faces when the "judge" whacked into their masterpieces . . . What did they think, I wasn't going to eat them all! LOL This was the real deal. The only way to find out which one was the "best," was to eat them - right!
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