Throwing Parties To Eat Cake
I think Madonna sang it best when she sang, "come on, Morgue (vogue) Let your dead body move to the music, hey hey hey, Come on, Morgue, Let you dead body go with the flow, you know you can do it! and it was the perfect theme for our Halloween disco. Starting with the invitations,…
I'm always looking for fun Halloween things for my kids as we don't Trick and Treat and this year I have come up with these spooky eye cookies. They have a little card underneath that the kids can wiggle with their fingers to move the eyes around, and my kids absolutely loved them! What you…
To celebrate the Day of the Dead (Dia de Muertos) my kids and I made some rainbow pastel skull cookies which could be a fun activity and decoration for Halloween, if they hadn't have eaten some of them already! I found some skull impression cookie cutters which leave a pattern imprint on the cookie so…
A new fun way to expand your party food selection is with cake donuts. Donut pans are widely available and inexpensive, plus you can make them with most sponge cake recipes and decorate them to suit your occasion. My younger kids wanted to help me make rainbow coconut cake donuts, as everything has to be…
I. Am. A. Chocoholic. Hopefully that is my first step to curbing my appetite but in the meantime I have come up with this raspberry, coconut and chocolate scone recipe. All the ladies at the Women's Insitute are gasping in horror at a classic recipe being tampered with, but it is so delicious, and topped…
When my youngest asked for The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr as her birthday party theme I was so excited! It has been a favourite of mine since I was a child and was one of the first books I bought when I was pregnant. The great thing about throwing a party…
