The Very Hungry Caterpillar: The Food

Like I said yesterday, I made a chocolate cake with chocolate fondant. For the filling I did butter cream with crushed cookies mixed in. I used rice krispies to form the caterpillar and covered it with fondant. I cut a piece of the small cake and punched a hole with a straw to make it look like he ate some! It turned out really cute, and Sam loved the caterpillar!

For the cupcakes I made cupcake balls, here is how you can make your own:

Ingredients:

Cake mix and ingredients listed on box (I used red velvet 1 box made around 50)

Cream cheese frosting

Chocolate Almond Bark

White Chocolate Almond Bark

M&M's

Mini cupcake pan and paper liners

Make your cake, let cool and break into crumbs, I used forks and then lost patience and used my hands!

Add about 1/2 can of store bought cream cheese frosting or enough to help the crumbs hold shape but not to much or it wont hold.

Taking heaping tablespoon scoops and roll into balls and place on cookie sheet. Place in freezer for 10 min.

Put liners in mini cupcake pan and fill half fun with melted chocolate Almond Bark, place cake ball into melted chocolate and press gently until the chocolate starts to rise. Once tray is full let sit until chocolate is firm.

Take liners and cake balls out of tray and dip the top half in melted white chocolate Almond Bark, letting excess drip off before flipping over and placing back on cookie sheet.

Add M&M before white chocolate has set.

After my all the candy coating had hardened I removed the wrapper but you can leave it on too.

For all the food we ate from the book I made little signs saying what day the caterpillar ate that food and a picture.

The food we ate:

Cut up

Apples

Pears

Plumbs

Strawberries

Oranges

Watermelon

We also had everything to make sandwiches including these from the book:

Sliced salami

Sliced Pickles

Swiss cheese

For sausage I took hot dogs and cut them up and cooked them in a yummy BBQ sauce

instead of cherry pie we had fresh cherries

And for the green leaf we had a big salad

For dessert we had

Ice cream cones

Chocolate cake

Cup cake balls

Suckers/lollipops

It was a lot of food and we ended up with lots of very yummy and healthy left overs which was great with me!

Party Fun!

We celebrated Sam's 3rd birthday and had a blast! Sam picked the theme of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, its one of his favorite books.

For the cake I made a chocolate cake with a fondant cherry on top like in the book and a rice crispy caterpillar, Stephen was such a big help with the cake, helping me cut out all the circles.

We ate the different foods from the book. After we ate we read the book, the kids loved that they ate all the same foods.

I loved that there was a small park right next to the club house so the little ones could play between activities and eating.

This week I will show you the foods we ate, the activities we did and the fun we had!