Kallie's Cooking Birthday Party

If you know me you know that I love to plan parties and put them on, especially birthday parties. I think birthdays are the best and when it is your day it should be celebrated to the highest and something that you will always remember. I love doing a party for Kallie because she can help me and she gets so excited. For past birthday parties for her we have done Purple Princess, Blue Clue's (Thanks John x 3), Lilo and Stitch, Finding Nemo, Princesses, Fairies, and Hannah Montana Rock Star. This year we decided to do a cooking party and it turned out really good.

The invitation was a wooden spoon tied to a recipe card with red ribbon and it said:

Recipe for: Birthday Fun

From the kitchen of Kallie Kenner

Ingredients: A few homemade pizza, 1 gallon of friendship, 2 cups of fun, 1 cup of imagination, sprinkles of laughter, lots of cupcakes, 1 gallon of ice cream.

Start off with a few pizzas. Add friendship, imagination and laughter in the kitchen at (address) on (date). Blend until laughter bubbles to top. Bake from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Top with cupcakes and ice cream. Please join us for fun. RSVP asap to make your reservation.

These are the top chefs that came to the party. When they came I gave them each a apron (that my mom and I made.) A dish towel that was hooked on their apron, for every time they washed their hands (and they did it a lot) they had a towel right there. I took a group photo (as seen here) and then individual pictures of them mixing some dough to use for the thank you notes. Then we began our cooking. We started by making individuals pizzas, using Rhodes dough for the crust. The girls had so much fun doing this building their pizza with lots of toppings. Kallie's pizza had tons of cheese on it and it spread across the pan as it cooked.

While the pizzas cooked, I taught them how to crack an egg and separate the yoke from the whites. They got a kick out of that, one girl went home and told her mom that was the best part of the party. I brought out a cooking memory game for them to play- where you put cooking supplies on a cooking sheet and then they have to write it down. Our pizzas were done and the girls enjoyed eating their creations. After they were done eating we went into the living room and played another game. A hot potato meets musical chairs game- it is a wrapped gift with many layers on it. The gift is past around the circle while the music is playing when the music stops that gets to unwrap one layer of the gift and the last person that opens the last layer get the prize/gift. While in the living room Kallie opened the gifts. The girls wanted to do a game with Kallie where they would disguise their voice and Kallie had to guess who was giving her the gift. After all the gifts were open we went into the kitchen and back to cooking. They made ice cream sundaes and decorated cupcakes and ate them too.

If you know me, you know I don't like fire. I was the only adult at the party and I couldn't find the candles. So we didn't have candles for Kallie to blow out, but we did sing Happy Birthday to her. Above is a picture of Kallie pretending to blow out candles. Below is a picture of the goody/ thank you item that we sent home with the girls said: "Thank you for making my party really COOK!" We had so much fun at the party. I really didn't have to do anything but switch out the trays with all the food on it. And the girls had a blast.