Shirley's party advice part 4 - Better at party planning than Pippa Middleton

[BlatherskiteOfTheLivingDead]

New thread :) Everyone welcome.

Believe me, I have no time to do this cake. DH will kill me for even contemplating it. If I can somehow make it to a shop to get fruit leather stuff then I might try, but it's not going to get sculpted and painted mushrooms, that's for sure.

What was the sauce? Just red butter cream?

Cheese and meatball pizza then and didnt we figure out that the stems off jelly cherries looked like peppers! What about that bloody cake pop machine? Cant you do a batch of them and dip in choc/sprinkles.

I did cream cheese frosting from the Hummingbird Bakery book and added a lot of red food gel, and some blue I believe. Tomato sauce is brown-y red.

I did see a bizarrely easy cake during my search, let me see if i can find it...

And yes, there was definitely a cake that had used jelly cherry stems as green peppers - good memory DW!

I need to pay a cheque in this week and will be walking right past the fruit leather selling shop if you need me to pop in stealth :)

resists double entrendre around pussy

i mean wtf is that cake?!!

Blathers that is most kind of you but this is for Saturday - I am in a meeting in a Heathrow hotel (exciting venue ) for the next 2 days, so basically I will be relying on finding a 24 hour shop somewhere between there and here on Thursday night.

Cake pop maker is so not gathering woodchip dust. The kitchen is the only civilised, finished room in the entire house, and I used it to make dragon poo eggs for DD's party. So nerrr. However, I think chopping ferrero rochers in alf would be quicker than making and coating cake pops, even if DS will grump (he hates ferrero rocher).

That cake is truly strange, DW, and yet not as simple as it ends up looking - all that painting, not to mention making the cat.

please ignore all typos. It somehow seems to be 11pm again, I have to get up ludicrously early again, and I still have to pack and choose radiators.

Thank you TheFictirsWife abd stealthsquiggle.

You want a theme? I'll give you a theme!

Dinosaurs. Ex bought that huge blow up something-saurus a d I have pit it to any use yet. So dinosaur party it is. Unless I run out of time and it's tapas style food.

Dinosaurs is cool. Especially for littlies. There is so much cute dinosaur stuff out there.

BTU's?

I'm up..dd1 is ill, fever etc. (prob what i had last week) this is evil but my mind is going dont be ill i needed you at playschool so i can get the tower finished!!! Assuming shes well enough for her party.

Drinkfeck- right well you only really need to theme the food if thats where you wanted a bit of fun. Dinosaur shaped sandwiches. Date you serve the dreaded turkey dinosaur (they'd be like cold nuggets) yes i admit to having some in the freezer, boiled eggs could be dino eggs esp if uou coloured them! Errrrr hold on....blathers is good at theming food.

Back again, you could do the big water melon head that was mentioned a few pages ago filled with fruit. Swamp dip and breadstick dinosaur bones.
Cheese triangles could be stegosaurus spikes. Salads for herbivores!

Blathers will be along in the morning with some good ideas

you need this

watermelon head

Dino Eggs

mega cute hats on here

Dino hats and volcano cakes and those marbled boiled eggs are all brilliant! I have one of those dinosaur sandwich cutters :)

I have to say I'd be tempted by the Dino chicken shapes too. Cold chicken nuggets always go down well.

You could do the Sharks teeth we talked about up thread and just call them dinosaur teeth? Or stick them into half a watermelon with toothpicks and call them Stegosaurus spikes? Chicken drumsticks could become T-rex arms or Pterodactyl wings? I've seen meringue bones in a halloween book that could work. If you can cope with giving them all fizzy orange, you could call it Volcano Pop? You could make fossil biscuits if you could find a amonite shape to use? humous swamp and bread/veg sticks? Veg could become Brachiosaurus food?

You need one of these for the top of the cake! I think you could probably get away with a plain and easy cake if you stuck that on top :)

How about this idea but instead of using the raisins (which seem to have plumped up and look gross) use jelly bugs instead?

You could do burgers and just rename them Brachiosaurus burgers? Hot dogs become Hot Diplodocuses? with ketchup lava of course :)

LOL at the wishosaurus - I bought my DM one of those - he's lovely

I think I should just take out shares in Fred to be honest. Such a lot of their stuff is in my cupboards lovely :)

Cracking up at pterodactyl wings.

T-rex arms would be an instant MN giveaway though wouldn't it. Almost as obvious as Pombears...

Oooh to be outed by a chicken drumstick :)

Drinkfeck if you want to really destroy your house, you could give the toddlers dinosaur tails like DW and Blathers forced me to make (along with dragon wings). They are soooo cute.

Yes love the tails but it may be cruel to get drinkfeck to make tails for babies for our amusement.

You lot are awesome!

I think the word you're looking for MBJ, is 'obsessed'

Possibly 'crazy'