Peace, Love & Cake...a cake decorating birthday party

 My daughter is always asking if she can help with decorating cakes...she loves to make things out of fondant so when it came time for her birthday, she decided she wanted a "Cake Decorating Party"!!  These are the handmade invitations that we hand delivered to her friends.  We simply made them out of scrapbooking paper and stickers.

In keeping with the baking theme, the girls each made their own pizza.  Then we baked them to perfection!

These are marshmallow pops made with Campfire marshmallows and melted chocolate.  The Peace Pops were chocolate covered Oreos.

Since they were decoratating cakes, she decided to

forgo the traditional birthday cake and wanted a cookie cake!

 The girls made a huge mess in my kitchen but really had a lot of fun!  I had pre-baked the small cakes and showed them how to roll out fondant and stack their cakes.  I let each girl choose a color of fondant to knead and gave them rollers, cookie cutters and fondant tools!  They were very creative!  I think we have some budding cake decorators here!!

As you can see each girl had decorated their "cake platter" while their pizza baked with Sharpies...a simple favor purchased at the local Dollar General Store.

As each guest came and went, they were greeted with a special custom door sign wishing Happy Birthday to the birthday girl!