How to Make a Dr Seuss Dessert Table

If you (or someone you know) is keen on Dr Seuss, why not throw a Dr Seuss party?! There is loads of inspiration all over the internet with tips, ideas, games, recipes and more.

My Dr Seuss Dessert Table

Here are a few of the things I did to create my Dr Seuss Dessert Table:

Cake
I used my Red Velvet cake and a packet of Betty Crocker's vanilla cake. I made one of each and cut them in half making sure each layer was 2cm high. I don't usually fill my cakes with cream cheese frosting but I felt like it (and it was my party after all) so I did! It turned out pretty runny (it was warm in my house) but words cannot describe how delicious this cake tasted!

Red Velvet and Vanilla Striped Cake

The top tier was a display cake which I covered in blue fondant and made "Fish" to go on top, after I made him I drew all over him to make him look just like the book!

Cat in the Hat Cake

The bottom tier I covered in white fondant and measured out red fondant strips to about 4cm and "glued" them to the cake using vodka (it evaporates, don't worry!)

A Little Slice of Heaven!

Cupcakes
The cupcakes were a yummy white chocolate recipe, I will have to share this with you one day! I found some great red and white striped cupcake cases and used these, however, the oiliness of the white choc decided to make my cases look a bit yucky so I popped them into another case to really bring out the colours. I then coloured some icing (I used my leftover and very very soft cream cheese frosting) bright blue and piped swirls on top.

Dr Seuss Cupcakes

Other ideas: Make Thing 1 and Thing 2, by putting blue candyfloss on top and making little "Thing 1" "Thing 2" labels (like they have on their shirts.)

Jelly Shots
I really wanted a lovely blue colour and I got the EXACT colour I wanted by mixing half a packet of blueberry jelly with half a packet of lemonade jelly. I didn't want my shots to be TOO alcoholic so I used these quantities:

Jelly Shot Ingredients

1 packet of jelly (half and half blueberry and lemonade)
1 1/4 C Boiling Water
3/4 C Vodka

When the water has cooled slightly, add the vodka and pour into shot glasses.

Vodka Jelly Shots

Of course you can make these non-alcoholic for kids parties. I also made non alcoholic ones and put red shark lollies inside them when they were almost set. These went down really well too...so well that I didn't get any photos! Oops!

Popcorn
If you ever see these adorable little popcorn boxes BUY THEM! I just happened to find mine at a store I was buying my decorations from! Make popcorn from scratch or buy it in a bag in advance then fill popcorn boxes.

Stripey Popcorn Boxes

Green Eggs:
If you're having a Dr Seuss party you HAVE to have green eggs! I used a recipe from the Edmonds Cookbook, but you can find plenty of devilled eggs recipes online, then just colour the yolk mixture green and pipe it into the egg whites. You can serve these as they are (they look very effective) or even add ham! (everyone asks where the ham is!)

Green Eggs

Recipe
8 Hard Boiled Eggs
1t Curry Powder
2-3 T Mayonnaise
Salt
Green food colouring

Shell eggs, cut in half, remove yolks and place in a bowl.
Add curry powder, mayo and salt to taste and mash together until creamy. Add green colouring until you reach the desired colour.
Spoon mixture into a piping bag and pipe back into the egg whites.

Decorations:
I found a great store that sells almost every colour paper lantern so I bought some in red and blue and hung them from the ceiling. If you can't find lanterns, streamers are a great idea too!

My Dr Seuss Dessert Table

I also found some funky red spiral things that are used for decoration in vases, these were PERFECT and the whole bunch only cost me $2! I displayed these on a table which also had some Dr Seuss books and Horton Hears a Who playing constantly (on mute!)

Dr Seuss Table

The other (cute) thing I did, was make flags for straws. I had these cute red and white striped straws which were perfect for a Dr Seuss dessert table so I just made some labels on Word, I glued them in place on the straws. Everybody loved these!

Stripey Straws with Flags

So there you have it! A Dr Seuss dessert table, made easy! There are SO many ideas out there, these are just a few. If you do decide to give it a go I'd love to hear your stories and see photos!

Dr Seuss Dessert Table

Me and my hubby both have birthdays in September, me on the 11th, him on the 22nd! We had never done a joint birthday celebration but it seemed like a great idea! This year we wanted to celebrate TWICE, once with our friends for a par-tay, then later in the month with family. For the friends party we decided on a fun theme that I had been wanting to do forever...DR SEUSS!

I love Dr Seuss! I read the books as a child, my favourite book was Green Eggs and Ham, my favourite part was always when Sam I Am realises he really DOES like green eggs and ham:

Say! 

I like green eggs and ham! 

I do!! I like them, Sam-I-am! 

And I would eat them in a boat! 

And I would eat them with a goat... 

And I will eat them in the rain. 

And in the dark. And on a train. 

And in a car. And in a tree. 

They are so good so good you see!

Usually dessert tables take a lot out of me, so much work goes into them, it's crazy! So this time I decided to keep it minimal and I think it worked out great!

Cat in the Hat Cake with "Fish"

Dr Seuss Cupcakes

I had cake, cupcakes, popcorn, vodka jelly shots, candy and cake pops. I also had a savories table which had green devilled eggs, sausage rolls, pizza, chips, dip and breads. It was plenty of food which was is always good to serve when you know people will be drinking!

Vodka Jelly Shots

Cake Pops

Red Velvet and Vanilla Striped Cake!

Stripey Straws Make Everything More Fun!

Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham?

I hope you liked my Dr Seuss dessert table, stay tuned for some recipes and tips to create your own Dr Seuss dessert table.

Gummy Bear Cake and Cupcakes

For my niece's 10th birthday party Cleo picked Gummy Bears as the theme.

Gummy bears may seem like a random idea for a party theme but then, that's exactly the type of thing my niece would do. She would say, that's so random! -Kids these days!

So with a theme like gummy bears I had the awesome job of making the cake and cupcakes. This meant rainbow colours!

I made a row of gummy bears around the bottom of the cake and included candles of the same colour. On top of the cake is a little party scene with four gummy bears enjoying teeny tiny cupcakes.

Behind them are their houses with little (M&M) paths that lead to the table. Then I made my first ever bunting and decided to use fondant instead of material or paper for the flags.




It turned out exactly like I wanted it to, love it when that happens!

The kids loved it (so did the adults!) and when it was time to cut up the cake they were so excited to learn that it was multi coloured inside!




To accompany the great cake I made a batch of vanilla cupcakes with 1/4 C of rainbow chocolate sprinkles mixed in and iced them in brilliant rainbow colours to match the cupcake cases.

Cleo and her friends decided there was a gummy bear army around the cake and the leader of the army was the red cupcake on top of the cupcake tower.

Later in the night they staged a big battle with gummy bears, gummy sharks and other candies, when I returned it looked like gummy carnage with toothpicks through bears and sharks all over the table! That's my niece!




Happy birthday to the greatest (and most creative)niece I could ask for!

Vanilla & Cinnamon French Toast

On Saturday morning I woke up really hungry and for some reason, craving cinnamon pinwheel scones. I Googled for ages trying to find one that wasn't made from a packet or took too much time to make. In the end I actually couldn't find one I wanted (I even tried calling my Dad for his recipe!) so I decided on French Toast.

There was some leftover crusty bread in our kitchen and I thought, WOW it's a sign, I'm supposed to make some yummy French Toast this morning! I just kind of chucked it all in a bowl (as I usually do) but thought I would share with you, because it tasted so darn good!



Vanilla & Cinnamon French Toast
3 Eggs
3 T Milk
1 t Vanilla Essence
1/4 t Ground Cinnamon
Approximately 4 slices of crusty bread (or just use normal bread, I do it all the time!)
Butter for the fry pan

1) Heat a frying pan to a medium/high temperature.
2) Combine all the ingredients in a bowl using a fork to mix.
3) Dip the bread in the egg mixture to coat on both sides.
4) Throw a tiny bit of butter into the fry pan (hopefully it sizzles at this stage)
5) Put the eggy bread in the fry pan and cook until golden on both sides.



I like to make up a nice cinnamon and sugar mix to sprinkle over my french toast. It's about one tablespoon of white sugar and half a teaspoon of cinnamon, or I think you can buy this pre-made now -LAZY!

Drizzle  on some maple syrup, sip on your hot coffee and soak up the sun while it's still here (that's what i did!) Enjoy!

Pretty Products: Kookychoo

I get hundreds of junk mail emails sent to my inbox every week, I actually like most of it (it's mainly for entering competitions!) One of the emails I get every now and then is from Kookychoo, this amazing online shop that I WISH I could justify buying something from!

I LOVE these cute designer gumboots, if only I still lived on a farm...or had puddles to jump in!

I think I NEED these cupcake bookends! I mean, they will keep all my recipe books together and lovely!

How CUTE is this? A dog house, a real dog house that is! Cuuuuute! ...now all I need is a doggie to put in there!

How FABULOUS is this cute retro record player?!

They also have these SWEET stamp watches that you can get almost any picture on, what a fantastic present idea!

Happy Birthday to Me!

It's September the 11th! My birthday!

Of course I'm making my own cake again this year, I think I might try to top each cake every year I get older...hmm I wonder what cake I'll make when I turn 50!

Here is the cake I made for myself last year (sorry the photos aren't very good!)



If you think it looks good then that's fantastic...it didn't taste that good though. Luckily I've gotten better in the last year and learnt lots more recipes!

I went with a pink and brown theme and made cupcakes, cookies and macarons too. Can you see the thin icing on the cookies? I ran out of icing! Haha!







Keep an eye out for whatever crazy idea I come up with for my birthday this year!

Looks Good, Tastes Bad!

I bought rosewater quite some time ago, meaning to make some rosewater, raspberry and white chocolate cupcakes...well, that never happened!

After asking if I needed to bring anything to a family get together my sister-in-law told me to experiment on them. Well that's just what I did! I found a Rosewater Pistachio recipe and adapted it a little.



Since this recipe said it was based on a vanilla recipe I thought I would just adapt it to MY vanilla cupcake recipe. It said to use 2 T of rosewater which I was really skeptical of but I added it anyway (I should have gone with my gut on this one.)

While cooking I smelled the oven and it smelled terrible! Rose overload! Ew! I had a feeling these were going to be very very strong in flavour so I decided not to add rosewater to the frosting and just made a nice fluffy vanilla buttercream.



Me and Hubby taste tested one and it wasn't a good thing. The consistency was good, the icing was good but the flavour was YUCK! Way too strong! It actually tasted like I was eating potpourri!

So I took them along to the family thing and got a mixed response...but mainly people thought they were a little too strong. I think the moral of the story is go with your instincts, next time I'll add 1t of rosewater and maybe make a pistachio flavoured icing.

At least they looked pretty!

Sponge Bob and T-Rex Cake

It's my friend, Sandy's birthday and I'm making her another cake. I had been privileged to work with Sandy for about a year (until I quit) and we got to know each other quite well, now we are close friends and have all sorts of personal jokes.

Sponge Bob & T-Rex Cake

One of our personal jokes came about while I was sending emails to customers with names like Patrick and Jenny. I would say to Sandy "Dear Patrick, Could you please answer me one question, who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Kind Regards, Lydia" and we would crack up! Another silly office joke was to walk around like a dinosaur, truth be told it looked more like a retarded chicken but it got the whole office laughing!

Sponge Bob and T-Rex Enjoy Their own Cake!

So when her birthday came about again this year I knew I had to incorporate some of our personal jokes. Thus, the Sponge Bob T-Rex birthday cake came about!

The cake was an orange cake with yellow (her fave colour) vanilla buttercream frosting. I tried out a new technique that I found on I am Baker which I quite liked on its own. Then added the fondant decorations.

Before Decorations were Added

T-Rex up Close

Sandy with her Birthday Cake

Me and Sandykins

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDYKINS!

P.S. This is the cake I made for her last year! Look how much I've improved on cake decorating in just one year! Go me!