Mickey Mouse Party ... Mickey Mouse Cake

Wednesday was Caden's 6th Birthday, we were having his birthday party on Saturday but I wanted to do something special for his actual day.  I have my women's group at church that night and the boys go to a youth group that night.  So why not whip up a cake for the kids to share, it's summer time so not many groups are going on so not many kids attend so I just made a small cake.  I wanted to stick with the Mickey theme he picked out and found a really cute Mickey Cake on Love Our Disney.

• Your favorite cake recipe (I used my go to Homemade Yellow Cake Mix)
• 2 6" Round baking pans
• 1 8 or 9" (I prefer 9) round baking pan (I just used 2 9" and cut out 2 circles out of one cake)
• Frosting (I used my Sturdy Buttercream Frosting dyed Black & I had a can of Red Frosting)
• A big surface to put the cake on (I used a cake board)

Make your cake mix (I doubled the recipe to make it nice and fluffy). Pour mix into greased pans and bake until done (I swear by Wilton's Cake Release). Stick a toothpick in to check it is done, as soon as the cake comes out of the oven, take a butter knife and run it around the edges of the cake to make sure it is separated from the pan. Let the cakes cool 15-20 minutes. Then, remove them from the pan, evening the tops (which will then become the bottom, if needed). Place the cakes on your cake base (I used a cake board). Classic Mickey has 2 ears connected to the head (so you cut a moon off each small circle - see picture below).  The Tootles version you would leave the small circles with no cutting.  Once cake is cooled, I frost it.  I decided that I would do the top half (the ears and half the large circle) black and the bottom red.  I then put the cake back into the fridge to harden up the frosting.  I then took yellow frosting gel to make to ovals like buttons on the red.  I also added red frosting gel with the #6 on each ear.  I hope this makes sense see the pictures for the step by step.

This was really simple to put together, if I would have been doing for the party I would have covered the cake in fondant.  

Mickey Mouse Projects Done:

Mickey Mouse Invites
Mickey Mouse Invites #2

Mickey Mouse Head Treat Bags

Mickey Mouse Rice Crispy Heads

Mickey Mouse Crayons
Mickey Mouse Cupcakes
Mickey Mouse Cookies
Mickey Mouse Party Count Down Chain
Mickey Mouse Utensils
Mickey Mouse Ears

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Super STAR!!!

Ok it's all in my mind I'm a super star but I have been so blessed to be featured a few places and I wanted to say a BIG thank you to those who took the time to click through to my post and like it.  It's been so crazy around here and I haven't been able to post when they happen so I thought I'd do a group them together.

First off is Brenda at Chatting over Chocolate. I love this lady and always tease her since she's only been blogging for a few months and is truly a super star and has been featured in probably 3 DOZEN + places (yes the green eyed monster of jealously comes up ... lol joking ... ok maybe just a little).  But she is so freaking sweet that you can't be upset and all her feature's rock!!

She has featured a few of my post (truly blessed that she has mentioned me a few times!).

Her Post: Magical Monday 23

Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

Mickey Mouse Homemade Crayons (Tutorial)

Excitement & Pins Galore

Pool Party Pinspiration!

Next is my friend and awesome Blog Designer Diana at Diana Rambles.

Diana Rambles: Pin Me Linky Party #3

R2D2 {Tutu} Costume

Man it's funny seeing this pic from Oct (down 60 vs now down 105)

Diana Rambles: Pin Me Linky Party #18

Turtle Cupcake on Eric Carle Cupcakes 

Next on the list is from Snappee Turtle, she has a great blog hop that lasted a few weeks called Show off your Shell.

Show off your Shell #7

Crock Pot Hamburger Soup

Show off your Shell #6

Mickey Mouse Treat Bags

Mickey Mouse Rice Krispy Heads & Crayons

Mickey Mouse Cookies

Next is The Home Girl's linky party called Festive Friday Fiesta!

Festive Friday Fiesta #4

Mad Hatter Tea Party - Clock for Rabbit

Festive Friday Fiesta #14

Fondant Graduation Caps

Next on the list is Kendra over at Kreative Creations who host Crafty Thursday Obsessions.

Crafty Thursday Obsessions #18

Kit Kat Cake with a Polka Dot Inside 

Next was Summer Bucket List, this was a fun party that ran only through June 2013.

Gabby at Essentially Electric pick

Summer Bucket List Party Features #2

The Foley Fam pick

Kit Kat Cake

And last on my feature list for now is from Shelley on Party in Polka Dot's.

Party in Polka Dot's #28

Beach Themed Party 

Thank you again for all who have stopped by from parties and said hi!  I have meet some great bloggers and some even better projects and recipes that I have and plan to try!

The one where my baby turned 6!!!

It almost feels unreal that my little Caden turned 6 yesterday!  He is such a snuggle bug and a very kind spirit.  My mom says since I wanted a girl so bad I got this super kind little one.  I have one wild and crazy Cole and then Caden it is a great mix to have 2 totally different boys.  We are planning a big party on Saturday but I still wanted to do something special for his big day.  They had VBS in the morning and Wednesday nights is my Women's group and the kids youth group.  So after work I hit the kitchen and 2 hours later had a pretty cute cake he could bring to his group.  Now it is far from perfect and the cake was a little warm still so the frosting was melting a bit so it was a little hard to work with.  But so worth the smiles when we walked into group.

6 years old how time has flown by.  You are special little man and so smart.  You love to read and doing homework.  You take after your mom with a love to learn and grow I can't wait to see what is to come.  This year I'm sure will bring us so much more and we look forward to the ride!

Cake Recipe to come on Monday next week!

Have a GREAT day!

Mickey Mouse Party ... Utensils and Mickey Ears

Onto day 3 of our Mickey Mouse party themed party! I'm trying to get all the small things done and out of the way that do need to be refrigerated until Saturday.  

First off I started with the Utensil Bundles in our color theme of yellow, red and black.  I found this idea for Mickey Themed Utensil Bundles on Sparklinbecks.

What you Need:

Utensils (Red and Yellow is what I used)

Napkins (Black is what I used)

Ribbon (I found ribbon with yellow and what looks like black (but is navy) dots)

Take a spoon and fork (use different colors like one red and one yellow).  Roll a napkin around the utensils. I tied mine with ribbon, you could use a solid color and add a small Mickey head you can cut out on the cricut but I went with the polka dot ribbon to tie it all together.

I hit up the Target clearance section and found this awesome utensil holder, that I can use for other parties too.  It fit perfect being red and black and you couldn't beat the price!

Next on the list was a fun headband for the kids to wear at the party.  I saw several options on Pinterest one cute one with foam for the circles and black headbands on Embellishing Life Everyday.  I didn't have time to order headbands so I went to the Dollar Tree and came up with my own version.

What you Need:

Party Headbands (I found a 4 pack at dollar tree)

Mickey Ears (Cut out using my Mickey and Friends Cartridge on Cricut)

Hot Glue

I took the paper crown off the headband. Then cut a whole to slide the ears into, I then took a hot glue gun to glue the ears to the headband.  Yup done!!!

Mickey Mouse Projects Done:

Mickey Mouse Invites
Mickey Mouse Invites #2

Mickey Mouse Head Treat Bags

Mickey Mouse Rice Crispy Heads

Mickey Mouse Crayons
Mickey Mouse Cupcakes
Mickey Mouse Cookies
Mickey Mouse Party Count Down Chain

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Mickey Mouse Party .... Invite Take 2

As most of you know Caden's birthday party is this weekend.  He was very worried that his classmates would not show since they have been out of school since 5/31.  So the week school ended I passed out these Mickey Mouse Invites to his classmates.  Since it's been a few weeks and I know not all parents keep things on their fridge so I wanted to send a second invite BUT of course I didn't want to send the same invite (REALLY stop rolling your eye's at me you so know me by now).

I found a really cute idea on Whimpsy Creations by Ann on Etsy.  I took this idea and ran with it!  Mine is a tweaked version of her's, if I of course had more time in my day would have done the fun yellow behind the party hat but I of course was running around like a nut and even had to run to the other side of town to get them in the mail since I missed the pick up time at my neighborhood post office.

What You Need:

Card Stock Paper (Black, White and Red)

Mickey Mouse Cricut Cartridge

George & Basic Shape Cricut Cartridge (this came with my machine, but use what you have)
Circle Cutter (I used my EK Success Scissor Pro)
Printer
Glue

First print on white card stock your invite info.  I was able to do 4 on one sheet, I took my circle cutter to cut them out.  (I was in a hurry and just noticed the one I showed above wasn't perfect but oh well.)  I cut out a mickey head on the circut, I could get 2 heads per sheet using the 5" size.  I then put in the George and Basic Shape to cut out the numbers (6) and triangle for the hat.  IF I had more time I'd cut a yellow triangle the same size, then take a whole punch to cut out on the red to let the yellow peak through.  Make sure you glue the white circle down first THEN put a little glue on bottom on triangle and put on.  (YES I made the mistake of doing it backwards.)  After you glue the invite info and party hat, glue the # of the birthday kid on each ear. IF doing the double color party hat, use a punch to make a few peek a boo wholes in the red and add the yellow behind (so you can see the pop of yellow behind).

Previous Card Made:

Mickey Mouse Projects Done:

Mickey Mouse Invites

Mickey Mouse Head Treat Bags

Mickey Mouse Rice Crispy Heads

Mickey Mouse Crayons
Mickey Mouse Cupcakes
Mickey Mouse Cookies
Mickey Mouse Party Count Down Chain

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Mickey Mouse Party ... Mickey (or can be Disney Vacation) Count Down

This coming Saturday is Caden's 6th Birthday party, most of you may remember from my previous post that his theme he picked is Mickey Mouse.  At the bottom of this post I'll list the projects that I've done so far.

I wanted to do something fun for Caden since every day he keeps asking when his party is.  I saw this Disney Vacation Count Down on Get Away Today's website and knew it would be PERFECT for a count down for the b-day party!

She had just the black circles have Mickey ears but I wanted to give it a little more Mickey since that is our theme and made the red circles have Mickey ears also.  Off to the Cricut I went and using my awesome Mickey Mouse Cricut cartridge and printed out some ears.

What You Need:

Cartstock Paper (I used: Black, Red, Yellow & White)

Stapler / Staples

Ribbon

Glue

I started with the circle at top cut a yellow circle and then a white circle smaller.  The white circle I had the wording I used for his invite.  You could use a poem or anything fun.  use ribbon to make a loop off the circle to connect the paper links to it.  Staple paper strips together to create the links.  On the Red and Black links I cut a whole to fit the ears into.  You can tape or glue ears on, I found that if I made a half Mickey head on my cricut I could slip the bottom part of the head into the slit I made and then staple it on.  Whatever is easiest for you, you could make 2 circles and staple them on if you really wanted to.  Make as many links as you need for the days that need to be counted down.  I made mine but then we got busy with the 4th of July so I had a few extra links on my chain.  Caden's first time cutting he got to cut off a few links.  This was a simple thing to make but you should have seen Caden's face light up when he saw it.  I'm sure it would be perfect for a family counting down the days to Disney also!

Mickey Mouse Projects Done:

Mickey Mouse Invites

Mickey Mouse Head Treat Bags

Mickey Mouse Rice Crispy Heads

Mickey Mouse Crayons
Mickey Mouse Cupcakes
Mickey Mouse Cookies

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.