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The Cake: This was the easiest cake we ever decorated for one of his parties. I made a practice cake a few weeks ago that I took to work to see what method I would use. Here's what worked: I cleaned some puzzle pieces from a puzzle that already had some missing. Dried them and then sprayed with Pam (very important). After frosting the cake I just put the pieces on, sprinkled yellow sugar around them, removed the pieces, and voila! A Puzzle Cake!
The decor: Low-key. Lots of yellow (Quinn's favorite colors). Groups of 3 balloons around the basement and a Happy Birthday Sign. I cut out letters and glued them onto paper that I cut to look like puzzle pieces. Simple.We also had puzzle-piece shaped cookies.
I wanted to buy blank puzzles for the kids to color on and take home as a party favor - but Hobby Lobby did not have them (though, they did about 5 months ago). Instead, I gave them some bags and fabric crayons for them to decorate. (I would have liked to have done that with them, but man oh man, we were way too busy.)
The thank you notes will be send out on yellow paper cut like a big puzzle piece.
The party was tiring - I felt like I was at work!
3 comments:
I am always SO impressed with people who do cakes like that...I don't have the skill or patience...wow...
Bradley
The Egel Nest
That cake is awesome! Do you use PAM to keep the sprinkles from going everywhere when you remove the puzzle pieces?
I used PAM on the puzzle pieces to keep them from sticking to the frosting. I did spray water on the sprinkles to keep them from going everywhere.
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