Day to Day: cupcake party

Cupcake Party {the party}

Friday night Michelle had a few of her friends over for a cupcake decorating party.

{I am all about less is best}

espcially at this age when drama is more of a factor.

First I had to get party ready!
I have been party approved by Michelle!
Only after she straightened my hair, "helped" me with my makeup,
and I put on a pink areopostale sweatshirt!
{from facebook}

For the first half hour they hovered over the snacks filling up on way to much sugar.

When they were all hyper they decided to sing some karaoke!

We took a mini break from karoake to open gifts.

After wards the girls all wanted to take turn take turns saying memories about Michelle.

The girls decided they wanted to make their cupcakes next!

Each girl decorated 4 cupcakes to take home in a box.

Cupcake Table

Some girls then decided to sing more karaoke while the others painted their fingernails.

The rest of the party the girls wanted to play rock, paper, scissors {a game they play in P.E.} which I had to play for even teams, then checked out Michelle's room, had the one dramatic friend moment that always seems to happen, and then went outside to run off some energy!

The girls started getting picked up around 9 pm!

All in all it was the best party ever according to Michelle.

The 3 hours flew by and all the girls had a great time!

After the girls left Michelle and I grabbed a chicken sandwich since we didn't have dinner before party.

We then watched two episodes of America's Got Talent before calling it a night.

We had a big day of shopping to look forward too!

cupcake party {decorations}

I kept the decorations pretty simple for the party!

I made a cupcake liner garland that I absolutely love.

This is really simple to make and doesn't take that long to make.

I went to Micheals and purchased cupcake liners in party colors.

I then used a needle {$ tree} and cord {wal-mart} to string the liners.

I didn't use any kind of pattern with colors.

Just randomly strung them.

When finished I draped them above the cupcake table and added balloons on each side.

Also on the table our adorable cupcake boxes I got from Micheals.

They come in packs of three and hold four cupcakes each.

The candles in the front are from the dollar tree and smell heavenly like chocolate!

For the table I just added a table cloth, tied balloons on

chairs, set out plates, cupcake decorations, and frosting.

I ended up moving the candles in fear of someone catching on fire if reaching across table.

The candles were vanilla candles from dollar tree tied with ribbon.

The snacks I just set up on our center island.

The snacks set out were chocolate pretzels, funfetti cake batter buddies, cake batter rice krispies, pixie sticks, ring pops, and a simple punch.

You can find pictures and recipes of snacks here!

Up next pictures of the Party!

Cupcake Party {the snacks}

For Michelle's 11th birthday party she had cupcake decorating party!

For snacks ideas I went straight to pinterest!

I found lots of yummy treats.

Cake Batter Rice Krispie Treats Recipe

{recipe from Six Sister's Stuff}

Ingredients:

3 Tbsp. butter

1 (10 oz.) bag of mini-marshmallows

1/3 cup Funfetti cake mix (you could also use yellow cake mix)

6 cups crispy rice cereal

1 (1.75 oz.) container of sprinkles

1. Melt butter in a large saucepan over low heat and add marshmallows.

2. Stir until they begin to melt, adding in (dry) cake mix one spoonful at a time so its combined.

3. Stir in cereal so it is completely coated with marshmallow mixture.

Sprinkle in half of the sprinkles and mix.

4. Press into a baking dish (any size will do) and top with remaining sprinkles.

5. Let sit for about 30 minutes before cutting.

Chex Funfetti Cake Batter Buddies

{recipe from Six Sister's Stuff}

Ingredients:

5 cups Chex cereal (I used Rice Chex, but Corn Chex would work great!)

10 oz (5 squares) vanilla flavored Almond Bark

1 1/2 cups Funfetti cake mix (any kind of cake mix would work)

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 tsp vegetable shortening

Directions:

1. Melt Almond Bark according to the package directions, adding vegetable shortening to thin (I heard that you can make it without the shortening, but it worked great for me to use it).

2. Pour the cereal into a large bowl and drizzle the melted Almond Bark over the cereal. Mix gently with a large spoon or spatula.

3. Dump the cake mix and powdered sugar onto the cereal and mix gently with large spoon until all the cereal is evenly coated.

Hershey Kiss Pretzels

Ingredients:

hershey kisses

{i used chocolate and cookies 'n cream}

pretzels

m & m's

Directions:

Preheat oven to 200 degrees

Places above items on cookie sheet except m & m's

Melt until soft.

Press m & m's on top

Place in freezer to cool

Cupcakes {from a box} to decorate in
strawberry, funfetti, and chocolate with crushed oreos!
I also had bowls of toppings out!