Birthday parties are everyone’s favorite reason to celebrate and a great opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind original event. One fun way to plan a memorable birthday party for your child is to start with a theme. A theme can inspire the food, activities and invitation design, neatly tying everything together.
Select a fun theme tied to the child’s interests such as favorite toys, books or hobbies, and allow him/her to assist in party planning and preparation.
Plan an activity that gets all the party guests involved and serve something scrumptious, such as Banana Bumblebees.
Banana Bumblebees
Prep Time: 40 minutes
Ready In: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Ingredients:
Muffins
1 (14-oz.) pkg. Pillsbury® Banana Quick Bread & Muffin Mix
1 cup milk
1/2 cup oil
2 eggs
Topping
Gel or paste food color
1 (16-oz.) tub Pillsbury® Creamy Supreme® Vanilla Frosting
12 large yellow gumdrops
1/2 cup Pillsbury® Creamy Supreme® Chocolate Fudge Frosting (from 16-oz. can)
12 semisweet chocolate chips
24 miniature semisweet chocolate chips
12 large white gumdrops Black string licorice
Directions:
- Prepare and bake muffins as directed on package, using milk, oil and eggs, and lining pans with paper baking cups. Remove from pan. Cool 30 minutes or until completely cool.
- Add orange, blue, green or yellow food color to vanilla frosting; blend well. Frost tops of muffins.
- To make bees, cut yellow gumdrops in half crosswise. Use rounded pieces for heads; flatten remaining pieces into ovals for bodies. Place on cupcakes.
- Place chocolate fudge frosting in small resealable plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small hole in bottom corner of bag. Squeeze bag to pipe stripes on each gumdrop body to resemble bumblebee. Place 1 chocolate chip on one end of each gumdrop body for stinger; place 2 miniature chocolate chips on opposite end for eyes.
- Cut white gumdrops in half lengthwise. Insert 2 gumdrop halves on edge of each gumdrop body to resemble wings. Insert small pieces of string licorice into gumdrop heads for antennae.