Miss Muffet turns Two ( Part Two )

Party Food and Decorations
I wanted to keep the party  really simple- to be honest, I am far too pregnant and too tired to have organised a huge affair and I also want Miss Muffet to enjoy and appreciate the simple things in life before she inevitably has her expectations raised.

We bought a large pack of balloons in a variety of colours and hung half around the living room in clusters. Of course we also had to hang some by the letter box- the Kiwi way of letting the world know that a party is going on! Amazing Sister had held a party previously and bought balloon holders ( long stems for individual balloons to be held by) so we copied and had a balloon for each child- they had a ball whacking each other with them! I also hung some bunting that we already held up and covered the table in a black and white polka dot table cloth. My final great idea was to buy reusable, brightly coloured, child sized, plastic plates and cups from The Warehouse. They looked nice and festive and the kids could differentiate which set belonged to them by the colour. Plus, I can use them in the future!

For savoury food, I prepared the following :

Chips and Classic Kiwi dip
Mini pies and sausage rolls
Pizza
Southland Sushi- also known as South Island Cheese Rolls a lot of people at the party had never had these and they were a huge hit!  Recipe here
 

For dessert, we had the following:
Lolly cake- made using The Little Housewife's amazing recipe
Cupcake liners filled with grapes, mandarin segments and kiwifruit slices
Amazing Sister and Amazing Brother in Law made individual jelly cups filled with layers of different coloured jelly, topped with strawberry mouse and sprinkles- they looked stunning!

This was the perfect amount of food as we hardly had any leftovers afterwards which was fantastic!

The Cake
Finally, I set myself a bit of a challenge to make a Hairy Maclary inspire cake. Every night we read Hairy Maclary to Miss Muffet before she goes to sleep and it is a firm favourite- she adores Scarface Claw and tries the mimic his shriek!

 

I made Hairy Maclary out of gumpaste earlier in the week and roped a gorgeous friend into helping me to make the flowers on one of our craft nights. The cake was a double layer of vanilla sponge cake, filled with cookie dough flavoured filling, wrapped in vanilla butter cream and topped with the gumpaste decorations and a wee bunting that I quickly made the night before. I was really happy with how it turned out and it received a lot of compliments at the party as well.


Miss Muffet enjoyed her party so much that the next morning as she was "helping" to unstack the dishwasher, she took the party plates and cups back to the table and set them up in the hopes of another party!