This is Minion 1. She told me that for her birthday this year she wanted to have a "unicorn tea party". I was stumped, really stumped. I mean, a tea party i can do. A unicorn party i can do. How the heck do i pull off hooking them together? Mind you, we have a thing in our house about parties. Every other year the kids get a big party rotated with a small sleepover party. This year was a small party after last years puppy party with 15 preschoolers in attendance (what was i thinking?). Anyhow I got a little inspiration in the form of a not so pretty yellow water pitcher with roses all over it. unfortunately i had craft vomit and didn't even think to take a before picture. This water pitcher was a lifesaver in so many ways i cant even explain. It not only gave me the inspiration for the party, but upon purchasing it at a garage sale for 50 cents, I met the nicest lady who gave me her number and helped to get minion 1 into a daisy girl scout troop! I had been trying unsuccessfully for over 5 months to get her in and in meeting this woman my baby was in a troop that week. Wow! What a lucky pitcher! Anyhow, I digress...heres the pitcher after i decoupaged it with random silver and and toile designed paper i had laying about.
This is what I came up with and it turned out GREAT if i do say so myself! I started with the water pitcher and placed a "bouquet" of tree branches in it (one of them still had moss on it! YAY!!!) and then bought the pink Christmas ornaments from walmart for under 4$. Then i decided to add a runner, and since i don't have one i used plain pink wrapping paper down the center of the table and then placed doilies on it down the center. I used pink heart wrapping paper to kind of cover up my china and then strung her name up in doilies too.
Chocolate covered strawberries were a must have so i made those. They were totally gone within the first 20 min of the party! I used a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips and melted them with a tbsp of shortening in the microwave stirring every 5 seconds to prevent burning. then dipped the strawberries and chill. I accidentally froze a few resulting in a mushy mess...oops.
And how did i tie in the unicorns you ask? Well if i were doing games we could do "pin the horn on the horse" or do a horn craft or something, but we werent doing any of that big stuff this year, so i just popped one on the cake.
The cake turned out ok. Im not a fan of strawberry cake and thats what she asked for so the cake was just from a box but i jazzed it up a bit with food coloring and then made homemade cream cheese icing which turned out WONDERFUL! Heres the recipe:
- 4 oz unsalted butter (softened)
- 4 oz cream cheese (softened)
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- mix well with electric mixer until well blended. add food coloring
here's a little peek inside the cake...nom nom nom....
As far as food goes, since the party was 5-8 with only 2 girls sleeping over i had to serve dinner. I made chicken salad for finger sandwiches (just boiled and shredded chicken and added a little mayo and halved red grapes) and turkey and cheese roll-ups (turkey lunch meat with american cheese rolled up in tortillas with a toothpick to hold it together). The roll-ups were GONE! I had to make more of them, but the chicken sandwiches (one of Minion 1s favorites) went pretty much untouched. Oh well.
The rest of the spread was pretty simple- veggies and dip, ants on a log (with and w/out raisins), sliced apples (tossed in lemon juice to prevent browning) with caramel dip and they were all served pink lemonade.
It was a hit! The girls played twister as the ice breaker and then we headed outside with flashlights for a little flashlight tag and a game of "ghost in the graveyard" and a few others. Im pretty sure the girls all had a good time. Instead of traditional favors i made suger cookie pops with just a bagged mix for the cookies, Wilton lollipop sticks (like 2.50$ for 25 of them) and then powdered sugar icing (powdered suger and a tiny bit of milk) and popped them in some cello bags.
Other than food the whole thing was under 30$. The food we made sure was stuff we could eat leftovers of the following day or for snacks later so there was no waste. On another day i will have to write about the cake balls that i had attempted to make to go with this party.....here is a hint NEVER AGAIN!!!! Next time i am just buying doughnut holes and popping them on sticks hahaha!
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