Picnic Food for Brandon’s Birthday
Here were the food I made for Brandon’s birthday party at the park.
I baked a dozen of mango cupcake the day before the party and decorated them early in the morning. The topping was chocolate buttercream, and top with two slices of strawberries and a small mango slice. Then I sprinkled the stars confetti on the side.
We bought seedless red grapes and green grapes, oranges, strawberries and one mango for the fruit bowl. I cleaned and washed all them the day before. I cut them and mixed them the next morning before the party.
We also got some mini croissants and deli meats from Sam’s club on Friday. Then we went to the Korean market and got tomatoes as well as the green leaf lettuce, and Mozzarella deli cheese from Albertsons. After I finished with the fruit bowl, I made these mini croissants. It is easy to make and they are delicious too. I cut the croissant using a pair of scissors. First layered with lettuce, then with the turkey and ham meat, then the cheese, then with thin slices of tomatoes and top with some Japanese mayonaise.
The last thing I made that morning was these egg Teddy Sandwiches for the kids. I cut the bread with a teddy shaped cookie cutter and decorated the eyes and mouth with pieces of carrot. Then individually placed each in the aluminum foil liner.
The night before I also made some rainbow jellos and coconut agar-agar with sago which I cut and served individually in aluminum foil liner. But these weren’t that popular as I think it was too cold in the morning.
While baking the cupcakes the evening before, I’ve come to realize that I won’t be able to bake that many cupcakes since Brandon was giving me a hard time working in the kitchen. So at 5:30pm I called Torrance Bakery to make sure they are still open and went down to place an order for an Elmo Chocolate cake for the party. Initially, I was planning to bake at least 20 mini cupcakes (marble) and 24 regular cupcakes (12 vanilla, 12 mango), but only able to finished a dozen mango cupcakes. Luckily, I was still able to place the order for the next morning pick up. Love this cake. Too bad, I didn’t have more than I wanted to because I came down with the cough and the sweetness in this cake just made me cough more. This is a 1/4 sheet chocolate cake with buttercream filling and buttercream topping. It cost $39.00.
wow u’re amazing! with brandon kacau kacau u could still bake such lovely cupcakes, agar agar, etc. well done!! may i ask how did u make the carrots not fall off from the cute teddy sandwiches?
Ya … I was able to do all these but in a very ‘mang chang’ mood. HA HA! What to do. I asked yeloh-powah to take care of him but brandon kept coming over to kacau me. So mang let me tell you. After this time, next birthday I think I just cater! LOL! I forgot to mention that I woke up at 6am but Brandon woke up at 7am. I was hoping he slept till later so I could finish all the stuff but nope.
Oh the carrot bits, I just pushed into the bread. I should have use a little mayonaise to make it more sticky, but since these carrot bits are so tiny, you probably need to use a tweezer to pick up and dip into the mayo sauce and then slowly lay them on the surface.
posted on March 10th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
wah wah wah u are super woman! can make so much food! the sandwich looks yummy, luckily i had my lunch edi if not i’ll be humgry now
posted on March 10th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Woah! I salute you for being able to do so much by yourself! Those food really look so yummy!
How nice if we can go and join in the fun!
Must try those mango cupcakes!!!
Any recipe to share?
posted on March 11th, 2008 at 9:28 am
wow…super woman lah u…prep so many stuff!!
posted on March 11th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Wow!!! Since I was planning for my DD’s b-day party, I figure I swing by your blog to see if you did anything for Brandon’s b-day… I see you did a lot!!! LOL. I plan to just buy a bunch of stuff from Trader Joe’s. hee.. hee… How many people came to the b-day party? I’m actually hoping my DD’s party is small since DD is still somewhat shy. The apartment has always been her “safe place”. She will probably be scared of a “home invasion”. Looking at the RSVPs, I think it will be pretty small. =D
Actually, we had a small group of people. Total people including our family was about 16-17. I made too much food. I followed MIL footstep, always make more food than needed. We had a lot of leftover but my other friends came back after we return from the park. I pack them lunchbox to bring back home.
posted on September 28th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
where did u get the cake at? it is soo kute?
posted on May 8th, 2010 at 4:11 pm