Party Foods - Homemade Birthday Party Ideas

Twilight Birthday Cakes

If you’re planning a Twilight-themed birthday party, there are several fun, creative and beautiful cake ideas you can choose from.

Twilight Book Cover Cake

The image of the two hands holding the apple is a popular one for Twilight cakes. There are several ways to execute a twilight book cover cake, the image shows a set of 4 cakes, each modeled after a different Twilight book.

Twilight Photo Cake

If you have a photo printer (purchase from the left sidebar) you can print the image you want on your cake, then just lay it on the frosting. use a frosting bag to make a nice frame around it, like this Twilight photo cake, it has a picture of Bella and Edward on the left side and Happy Birthday Alyssa on the right.

Twilight Cake Wrecks

Can you spot the disaster in this cake? To be honest, I haven’t read any of the books or seen any of the movies, but I know one thing. The author’s name is Stephenie Meyers.

Fancy Fondant Twilight Cakes

This cake is beautiful, and much more appropriate for an upscale birthday, or a sweet sixteen. If you need help working with fondant, check out the Frosted Dreams ebook or the video tutorials at the Cake Decorating Club, plus I have fondant and gumpaste decorating information here.

Twilight Cupcakes

I think these are supposed to maybe be vampire teeth bites. They might be cheesy, but they’re definitely an easy Twilight cake decorating maneuver.

I think these are the best Twilight cupcakes I’ve seen. These would definitely be a conversation starter, especially as teens argued over who gets which one.

Funny Twilight Cakes

I think this one is hilarious, I just had to include it because I think it’s the funniest Twilight cake I’ve seen so far.

If you decide to bake a Twilight Cake, go ahead and email me a picture of it, I can post it right here and share it with our readers and even link back to your blog or website.

Finger Foods for Parties

Since the parties I plan are all for kids, I like to do finger foods. You just can’t make a room full of 6-year-olds wash their hands every 2 seconds, especially with only one bathroom. Here’s a list of our favorite finger foods to serve at parties

Deviled Eggs
– These go really quickly. for our recent Princess Party, i added green food coloring to the yolks and called them “Deviled Dragon Eggs” If I had thought about it ahead of time, I would have soaked the egg whites in purple food coloring, but it’s too late now. A sprinkle of paprika over the top of the whites makes them spotted.

Finger Sandwiches
– I usually use a slice of wheat and a slice of white because I absolutely hate the texture of white bread. Our most common filling is a blend of cream cheese and strawberry jelly. We also blend peanut butter & apple butter. Hummus and cucumber works well, as does cream cheese with dill and cucumbers. Ham and swiss is popular, too. I cut off the crust and cut each sandwich into thirds

Teeny Piggies
- Cut a crescent roll into thirds and wrap each wedge around a vienna sausage, then bake until the bread is cooked. I use hot sausages and have no idea what oven temp, I just check them every few minutes until they’re done. Sometimes I place a diced piece of cheese on top and press the toothpick through both. The cheese melts a little, it’s tasty.

I found these sites helpful, Finger Food Recipes and Finger Foods from Good Housekeeping

Cake Tint Spray-on Food Coloring

This cake tint has to be the absolute most amazing product on the planet. I was first introduced to it at my friend Emily’s house, she had sprayed the popcorn pink for a Princess party. Isn’t that genius? Obviously it dries fast if it can be used on popcorn, even though it’s designed for cakes. The possibilities are endless, I think it’s the most exciting food invention since K-cups.

They come individually, or in the set. Individual cans are about $4 each. Click on the group image to find them individually.

Luau Party Foods

Pineapple party foods are fun to look at and to eat. Slice a pineapple in half and hollow it out, then fill it with tuna salad or chicken salad or even just some veggie dip.

Fruit kabobs make great tropical luau foods – line up grapes, chunks of watermelon, cantaloupe, berries, mandarin orange slices, bananas, pineapple, apple chunks and pear wedges, then display them by poking the bamboo skewers into a pineapple

Use a fishbowl to serve goldfish crackers and call them “koi”

Macadamia nuts are tasty, add them to trail mix or party mix

Place a large bowl inside of a beachcomber hat, to decorate the table.

Homemade Birthday Party Ideas

Easy Balloon Arches

Party Planning Videos

Print Pictures on Cake

Twilight Birthday Cakes

Finger Foods for Parties

Cake Tint Spray-on Food Coloring

Luau Party Foods

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