Gâteau Michelle

Last year for Chase’s birthday, he decided that he wanted to go with a Simpson’s theme. Cool. We love the Simpson’s though he seems to have a mild obsession with them. He wanted to make sure that we had all of the key ingredients which would be:

1. Homer                                            
2. Bart                                                 
3. Duff Beer (or root beer in this case)
4. Spiderpig                                         
5. and of course, doughnuts               

You might think that this would be a tall order with there not being so many Simpson party supplies out there. However, complicated is my middle name and we worked around that problem.

The first thing we needed to do was to decide what the invitations should look like. Well, anyone who knows me, knows that I am a total kitchen gadget geek who just happened to have a mini doughnut maker. Doughnuts were our invitation. White donuts with pink icing and sprinkles to be exact. Hubby and I made 75 mini donuts and boxed them in individual boxes for school delivery the next day.

 Next order of Business was the Duff Beer. Since we decided that we didn’t want to be know as “that type of parent,” we went with root beer instead of the real stuff. Chase and a buddy went with me to make it at a local restaurant and brewery.  The did everything from sanitizing the bottles to making the root beer to bottling and capping it.  Then we brought it home and labeled it. This was our party favor, or at least one of them.

 In order to include Homer in the party, we made him one of the games. It was your basic tossing game but instead of beanbags, we used donut holes. The object of the game was to feed Homer. Hubby drew a life size Homer, cut out the mouth and painted him. He was awesome!! The kids thought that it was so cool to get to throw donuts and the game was a huge success.

Our other game was a pinata, which I am not really a big fan of, and this just reinforced it. We had it made at a little pinata shop down the street from us and they did a beautiful job. Too good a job in fact, as it was harder than heck to bust it open. However, it did finally get broken open and no one lost an eye. All in all, it was okay. 

By now I am sure that you are wondering what we did for food. Well, since our home team for baseball is the Albuquerque Isotopes we thought that it was only fitting to have baseball type food such as hot dogs and popcorn. We also had Harry Plopper cookies and 2 cakes, one of Lisa and one of Bart.

We had a great time putting it all together and the kids had a great time at the party.