Tag: children’s birthday
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Oscar’s Heart Love Cake
The commercialism of Valentine’s Day reached Oscar this year. Hubby and I usually ignore it, but Oscar insisted that we needed to have something special for dinner, so we made a “heart love” cake. I had shared some instruction on Facebook for a heart cake made from a square cake and a circle cake, but… Read more
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Baked Donuts
I was inspired by the Baked Doughnuts recipe on Real Meals to give them a go myself; I’d always assumed there was something difficult about them, but these looked easy. It took me ages to find a doughnut tray, in fact I couldn’t find one at all, but I did come across a mini bundt tray with 12… Read more
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The Final Birthday Post
We have been eating birthday cake for 5 days now, and this is my final post on Oscar’s birthday party. As well as his party on Sunday he also took a cake into his day care centre for a another “party” there. There are strict rules about taking food into child care centres. I can… Read more
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The Birthday Party
Oscar’s 3rd Birthday Party was a great success! We had wonderful weather, so the party could go ahead in the park and Oscar and friends had a great time. The food also went down well, although we do have quite a bit left over to take to work tomorrow. The menu included: Schweppes lemonade (no… Read more
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Birthday Preparations
Oscar’s 3rd birthday party is tomorrow and I have spent the last 2 days shopping for and preparing the party food. Its a train themed party with a Thomas and Friends birthday cake. Almost all the party food has had to be home made, including the cake. Since I couldn’t use natural food colourings for… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project #5
This is the last of my practice runs for Oscar’s birthday party – the birthday cake. Given that there is going to be a lot of chocolate party food I decided to make a vanilla cake, and as natural food colours are out (experiment #1) I have a bought a Thomas and Friends cake topper,… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project # 4
This is one of those kids recipes that adults will love as well – Wagon Wheels. The recipe is from allrecipes.com.au. They tasted sooo good, and reminded me of the days when Wagon Wheels were twice as big as they are now. The main difference with these Wagon Wheels is that they have pear jam… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project #3
It’s fairy floss that make the cute little “Bunny Tails” on these mini cup cakes. This isn’t a recipe so much as the cup cake is a gluten-free packet I found at Maxi supermarkets. Why is that gluten-free cake mixes can be made additive free, but not regular ones? The fairy floss is from Allergy… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project #2
My taste testers at work were very pleased this week – Vanilla Slice! I also let DH take some to work to share. Oscar wasn’t too keen on the custard part (liked the pastry though), but this one will definitely be on the party menu. It was delicous!. Pip from Real Mealsinspired me to try… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project #1
Oscar’s birthday is coming up in August and he’s having his first “kids party”. The first 2 birthdays where just with family, but this year we will be inviting friends from day care. If there’s one occasion when no food should be off-limits to Oscar it’s his birthday party, so I have identified some party… Read more
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Another Birthday!
We had another birthday last month – mine this time. And my boys did a wonderful job making my birthday cake. They used the classic sponge recipe from the Failsafe cookbook and filled it with jam and whipped cream. The chocolate icing and lollies on top were Oscar’s idea (of course)! Classic Sponge Cake (Low… Read more
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Chocolate Crackles
Copha is high in salicylates, so it is not on our shopping list, and as a result I have never made chocolate crackles for Oscar. We do make other rice bubble treats, but last week when asked to make “rice bubble cake” I thought I’d try and come up with an alternative recipe. I didn’t… Read more
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Homemade Sausage Rolls
These sausage rolls have become a bit of a hit with Oscar. They are quite easy to make and freeze well, which makes them a quick easy meal served with mashed potato and swede and fried lentils. Oscar also has a little bit of pear sauce with his. Sausage rolls (High Amines, Low Salicylates, Low Glutamates) Serving… Read more
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Penguin Cup Cakes
We had Oscar’s family birthday party on the weekend. This time I made the cake myself – penguin cupcakes. I got the idea from familyfun.go.com. They were quite easy to make, the biggest problem I had was making the chocolate circles to replace the biscuits used in the original recipe. I put the chocolate in… Read more
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Makka Pakka Cake
Its Oscar’s 2nd birthday. He’s had a wonderful day and just loved his Makka Pakka cake. Makka Pakka is a character in the children’s TV program In the Night Garden. He’s Oscar’s favorite and lucky for us he is light brown in colour. Oscar always misses out when the other kids have birthday cakes at… Read more