Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Cars themed birthday


It was birthday time for my friend Melanie's little boy; and what boy wouldn't love a Cars themed birthday bash?! Melanie went all out with the food, decor, and game, and I got to help out on the Cars cupcakes.

She had made yummy peanut butter bars that looked like stop lights, chocolate covered pretzels for dip sticks, and chocolate covered oreos for spare tires. She even found cars themed juice boxes for the kids and had race flag patterned bottle water for the adults. I just about died when I saw the party favor bags she made that looked like Lightning McQueen and Mater. They were darling! (oh wait, boy's party--I don't know if I'm allowed to use the word "darling." Maybe I should say they were rockin'--I don't know, I don't have boys).


Melanie borrowed my 4 tiered cupcake platter and decorated it with construction paper to resemble race tracks. So creative and fun.

I'm so glad I got to help her with the cupcakes. These were so fun to make. I molded Lightning McQueens, Maters, and Chicks out of modeling chocolate then stuck them on top of cupcakes iced in red, yellow, or blue almond buttercream.

What made it even better was that Melanie did all the baking, so all I had to do was make the icing and decorate--by far my favorite part. I've always said I would love to have someone do all the baking and someone else do all the cleaning up, so I can just do all the decorating. She made it so easy for me. Thanks, Mel! Don't you love the cupcake liners she used? The were perfect for the cars theme.

We had a yummy lunch together with our friends and enjoyed all the socializing.

Cupcake time--here is the birthday boy blowing out his candles.

These two are sure enjoying eating their cupcakes. My little one took the "no hands" approach to eating.

Melanie and her husband Nephi made this awesome Lightning McQueen pinata out of cardboard boxes and paper maiche. It looked amazing. The kids had a blast trying to break it open and finally resulted to all jumping on it to retrieve the candy and toys.

The goody bags came in handy when the pinata was opened, and the kids started filling them up.

Here are all the kids that came. What a fun group!

Happy Birthday Andersen. Glad we could be apart of your special day!
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  1. reddhottreddsMarch 21, 2012 at 7:54 AM

    I love how you thanked me.....Thank YOU for all of your hard work! I couldn't have imagined cupcakes so cute and perfect for the party. Boy, I'm sure going to miss you! .....and for more reasons than just your cakes :)

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  2. SarahMarch 22, 2012 at 8:09 PM

    Hi,
    I was wondering if you could share your modeling chocolate recipe. It sounds fun to use and add to my mix. The recipe I found was not very user friendly. My creation just fell into a blog after a bit.
    Thanks,
    Sarah

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    1. Robyn LarsonMarch 22, 2012 at 8:44 PM

      Hi Sarah,
      I posted my recipe at the end of a post here: http://pattycakesbakery.blogspot.com/2011/02/valentines-chocolate-box-brownie.html

      I hope that works better than the recipe you have been using. One word of caution--Wilton has very subtley decreased the number of ounces in their Candy Melts bag from 14oz to 12oz (at least in the craft stores around here). This will throw the recipe off if you still use the 1/3cup corn syrup. The easiest thing I have found to do in this case is weigh out 7oz from your 12oz bag then add 1/6c corn syrup. It'll give you half of a batch. Or just buy 2 bags and weigh out 14oz.

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  3. The Witcher FamilyOctober 8, 2012 at 12:31 PM

    Such a cute party!! How did you make the favor bags?

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    1. Robyn LarsonOctober 8, 2012 at 12:48 PM

      I only did the cupcakes for this party. My friend Melanie, the birthday boy's mama, made all of the cute favors, decorations, and pinata. Unfortunately I don't know how she made them.

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