I promised more on the food for the party – we did it as a brunch to try to beat the heat a little bit. Since it’s food related, I’ve actually posted the writeup over at Foodwhirl: Menu for the birthday party brunch food. So go check it out!
The menu included Deathstar Cantaloupe, Mr Slushie Dogs, Roast Bantha, and even Platypus Eggs!
(Thanks to the Evil Mad Scientists for the Deathstar Cantaloupe idea!)
I get offers from sponsors from time to time for giveaways for my readers (most of which I ignore), but this one looked like one that you guys might like!
500 Business Cards, Full color on both sides! I can think of tons of things to do with these… Use them for your art or crafty biz would be an obvious choice, or if you have no business, how about your kids pic on there for play date cards. Or customized gift tags. Anyways, I figured Dabbled readers could find a good use for them, and I get a prize for…
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Ready to make your Perry Cake? Really, you CAN do this!
Yesterday we covered all The Prep Work required to make your platypus cake. Now it’s a day or so before you need the cake, and we’re going to put it all together.
You should have:
Clear yourself off a good work area, get your fondant out of the fridge, and let’s get to assembly!
You have your sheet cake, iced with…
I have a request for the tutorial to make the Perry the Platypus Cake, and since it’s needed in a hurry, I’m doing this tutorial in two parts. By the way, I did a really detailed tutorial on last year’s dragon cake, and this year’s cake is actually similar, if a little simpler. So it wouldn’t be a bad idea to read through that tutorial in case I miss anything I covered there, as far as techniques.
More pics of the cake and the party here!
We’ll start with the prep work: assembling your hardware, getting the shopping done, and…
So last week I get an urgent message from blogger friend Carissa (GoodNCrazy.com) – She’d had problems with her host, and her blog was down, and she needed help getting a new host and getting her blog back up. Since I’d done her blog theme design, I was familiar with her stuff, and had a backup of her theme. I also recommended my host, Bluehost.com – since I’ve been very happy with them*.
She had a pretty good scare that she’d lost her entire site, so I figured it would be a good idea to share how to avoid going through that…
For the Clone Wars section of the birthday party, (for the Phineas and Ferb themed cake, go here!) the hubby and I came up with the idea for upside down clone trooper helmet cupcakes. These cupcakes were the hit of the party with the five-year-old boy set, though I will warn you, they are a bit time consuming to assemble. But well worth it! So here’s how to do them.
Cupcakes: You’ll need good firm cake, similar to pound cake. Here’s the recipe I used. I don’t know if it was luck, or overfilling the cupcake cups, but this cupcake came…
Over at The Decorated Cookie, there’s a great tutorial for decorating your marshmallows for your summer picnics. What a fun idea! She even goes step by step on how to do the featured drawings!
It’s been a while since I added to my how to draw on food series. And to my marshmallow collection. So here is something to cover both: marshmallows for your summer barbecue. These are incredibly easy to make and take mere minutes. You can put them on lollipop sticks and display them in a glass jar on your picnic table for a treat (assuming marshmallows won’t melt…
