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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain cupcakes

Disney Planes and Planes Fire and Rescue was the theme for my son's 5th Birthday Celebration. My Son is Gluten intolerant and this post shows you how to create yummy gluten free, dressed up cupcakes presented as "cloud capped mountains" The cake servers were labelled - this server: Piston Peaks and these were Gluten Free carrot cakes topped with Cream Cheese/Philly Cheese icing.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cakes

GF Carrot Cake Recipe
Ingredients
3/4 cup Organic cold pressed virgin Olive Oil or Organic Macadamia Nut Oil
1 tsp Organic Vanilla essence
1 1/2 cup grated Organic carrots
1/2 cup chopped Organic walnuts
1 1/2 tsp gluten free baking powder
3/4 cup Rapadura or brown sugar
2 large organic eggs
1/2 cup organic sultanas, raisin and cranberries (what ever your children love)
1 cup gluten free Self-raising flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Method
Beat oil, sugar and vanilla in a bowl until there is a change in colour
Add eggs and continue to beat until light and creamy
Stir through carrot, sultanas/cranberries and walnuts
Fold in sifted flour, baking powder and cinnamon into mixture until well combined
Spoon mixture into a lightly greased and lined 21cm circular tin or cup cake/patty papers.
Cook in moderate oven (150oC fan forced/ 180oC Oven) until top springs back or skewer come out clean. Cooking time is approx. 25-30minutes.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cakes

Icing Recipe
Ingredients
5-6 tablespoons softened Cream Cheese/Philli Cheese
1 tsp vanilla
4 tsp softened butter
1 1/2cup Pure icing sugar (GF)

Method
Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until combined.
Slowly add sifted icing sugar until all sugar is dissolved and the icing is light and fluffy.
spread over cake or put in piping bag and make clouds on your cup cakes ;-)

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cakes

The second cake server had Propwash Muddy Mountains and these were Gluten Free Chocolate cakes.

Chocolate Gluten Free, Flour Free Cake Recipe, one of our FAVOURITES
Ingredients
1/3 cup Organic Cacao
1/3 cup Hot water
200g Organic Dark Chocolate - the better the quality the better the outcome
120g Organic Butter soft
1 1/3 cup Rapadura or brown sugar
3/4 cup Organic Almond meal
1/4 cup Hazelnut meal
4 Organic eggs separated

Method
Blend Cacao in hot water until smooth in one bowl
Melt chocolate and butter together in a double boiler
To cacao and water, add melted chocolate, butter, sugar, nut meal and egg yolks; Mix well
In a separate bowl beat egg whites until soft peaks form and gradually fold this into the chocolate mixture.
Pour mixture into lined and greased cake tin - we use a square because this is rich or in this case, patty cake papers/ cup cake liners.
Bake at 140oC or until skewer comes out clean. These do not rise much at all, so fill them to 1/4 inch from the cup cake liner top. Cooking time is approx. 25-30minutes.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cakes

The cakes were topped with circles of sky blue fondant and butter icing was pipped on top for the clouds. Ben took off the sky of blue, cloud and Fondant planes I created and just ate the cakes. As far as he was concerned it was all part of the decorations and not for eating ;-)...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cakes

The patty/cup cake papers and cup cake toppers were purchased in a kit from Birthday in a box. I used this company for so many of my decorating.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cake toppers

Thank you for stopping by. I look forward to your company at the next post.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Disney Planes Birthday Party - Popcorn containers and Little Dippers

My son's 5th Birthday party was themed Disney Planes and thanks to Pinterest we saw this great party idea for our pop corn clouds. We had to add some planes and our little dippers for the adults to graze on sounded like a whole lot of fun... I set to work on these special containers (Stampin' Up! Chip boxes dressed to character) inspired by Tonya and her movie night. Lex and I made this collection late one night...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Food - Popcorn/Cloud Containers Stampin' Up! Chip Die

Dusty himself...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Food - Popcorn/Cloud Containers Stampin' Up! Chip Die

Dotty for the girls...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Food - Popcorn/Cloud Containers Stampin' Up! Chip Die

Chug for a splash of green, plus he is cool!

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Food - Popcorn/Cloud Containers Stampin' Up! Chip Die

All three together full of popcorn clouds...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Food - Popcorn/Cloud Containers Stampin' Up! Chip Die

The containers were inspired from various posts on pinterest (check out my Pinterest Board) and created using a variety of Stampin' Up! Circle Punches and Window Punch. I just drew, cut and coloured.

The little dippers were simply a large bun with the top cut off. I then cut the top in half to make wings. I dug out the centre of the bun and that was placed around the plane as clouds. I then cut a horizontal slit either side of the bun and pushed the wings into the slits - the body of the plane now had wings. I surrounded the plane with the bread clouds and corn chips - wings...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Little Dippers

The filling can be purchased and scooped into your little dippers or made as we did...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Little Dippers

This was not a healthy choice but more for the adults to graze on and there were lots of comments on how cool they looked.

Enjoy planning your planes themed food for your party,

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Disney Planes Birthday Party: the Drinks

Disney planes themed food was fun and easy thanks to the many ideas on Pinterest. Ben is on a special diet, gluten, dairy and soy free. All of his food needs to be organic and unprocessed. I did include a few foods that broke these rules, but Ben did not indulge in these as he knows the consequence and we call these adult foods.

Drinks
Water is a must for all parties and for the adults punch/Jet Fuel was the request from those parents that attended last year.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Drinks

The Jet Fuel recipe can be found HERE from last year's Birthday Celebration.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Drinks

Enjoy planning your planes themed food for your party.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Disney Planes Birthday Party: the Props and Decorations; Ballons, Banners, Signage and Mobiles

Disney Planes and Disney Planes Fire and Rescue is a great theme for decorating a party. We turned the entrance of the yard into a metal detector with a welcome sign. Here I decorated with Disney planes coloured streamers, a runway of black hessian and a cardboard box decorated to look like El Chupacabra.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The entrance - Check in, metal detector, runway for El Chupacabra

We used a number of themed Banners and themed scene setters thanks to Birthday in a Box WHO ship to Australia! Large happy birthday banner was suspended between two columns on the front of the house. Mobiles hung behind the birthday banner and were sourced as a PDF from Lovebugs&postcards. It was a game but I turned it into a mobile or two ;-) .

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Birthday Banner

The mobiles were of Planes characters and the Smoke Jumpers...can you see these little fellows?

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The entrance mobiles

The food for the Birthday Celebration was inspired by the pins on Pinterest. Together Ben and I planned all of the different foods we could have that would be Plane themed. The table was dressed in pale blue with Disney Planes back drop, purchased for Birthday in a Box. This was the dining area, before the yummies came out...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Dining area

The signs (Etsy), cake toppers & candles were purchased from Birthday in a Box USA and Character Parties Supplies Qld. Food labels are always fun and this was made easy thanks to Hi my fiesta in English and Etsy...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The signage and food labels

The Serviettes, plates, cups and cutlery - all themed and purchased in a pack from Birthday in a Box....

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The xxxxx

The Drinks stand...balloons and signage with Dusty - we had Dusty cups above, but they went very quickly - before I could take the photo!

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Drinks stand

The activities / construction and eating area...

Ben loved these and said they look like propellers... so we purchased them from K Mart and they were placed in a line in the garden...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The garden

The cubby was transformed into a tower... the lower right side of the cubby is where pin the propeller on Dusty was done...Banners and foil balloons from Birthday in a Box USA but they ship to Australia. The Blue and Orange Dusty Balloons were from Character Parties Aust.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The cubby come xxx Tower

Happy 5th Birthday banner featuring the Disney Planes characters was draped across the front of the cubby... purchased from Birthday in a Box.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Disney Birthday Banner

Just love these banners and I'm so glad I didn't have to make them this year!

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Disney Birthday Banner

The balloons and Peg Planes

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Balloons

Balloons are a wow way to decorate, lots of colour and easy to assemble. The balloons were purchased from e-bay Garry Gooda and Character Parties Wynnum Qld. We filled them ourselves thanks to Spotlights hiring of Helium gas cylinders. There were lots of themed foil balloons and these were complimented with themed cloud balloons, orange dusty balloons and pale blue balloons. These were suspended from the Dining area, drinks table, cubby and present table...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Balloons

El Chupacabra and the licencing board, printed and made this ourselves...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - El Chupacabra and Licencing board

oh did I mention - we made a Dusty too

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Dusty cardboard box plane

As you look through my pinterest board - Disney Planes, you will see where everything was inspired from. There you will find the links to fabulous blogs, shops and activities. Enjoy these and create a lasting memory for your child's birthday.

Enjoy planning your Disney Planes party,

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Disney Planes Birthday Party: the School Celebration

Ben loves to craft and one activity we were unable to squeeze in at his party was the making of each child's own planes out of pegs. I saved this activity for his School Celebration. I gave all of the supplies and instructions to the teacher and on craft afternoon each child was shown the prototypes and they made their own peg planes. I received many thank you's from the kids that afternoon, I could not believe it - who says kids want cake to celebrate! you should have seen these kids fly their planes all over the playground and yes including the girls. It was a wonderful success and Ben was feeling very proud.