Food Ideas for a Girl's Birthday Party
Preparing refreshments for a little girl's birthday party is a chance to indulge in femininity. Thinking pink---along with rose, lavender and other girlish colors---when coming up with ideas for refreshments can magically turn all kinds of foods into birthday party treats for your little princess.
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Cake
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Although it's easy to buy a special-order cake from the local supermarket, birthday girls may be just as happy with any of several homemade varieties. One quick-to-prepare choice is a Hello Kitty cake made with directions on the Groovy Kids Parties website. The Kaboose site offers directions for making a colorful flower box cake and a butterfly cake with Twinkies for the butterfly body. Individual cupcakes can serve as the birthday cake, when the birthday girl's is topped with a candle. Cupcakes baked in an ice cream cone is another festive variety.
Sweet Treats
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The birthday girl might choose to serve cookies and candies instead of, or in addition to, a birthday cake. Flower cookies are sandwich cookies, cut with a round scalloped cookie cutter. The top cookie is baked with a small hole cut in the center so that pink frosting shows through when the cookies are put together. For a combination activity and treat, girls can frost and decorate gingerbread girls with a variety of small candies. Little baskets filled with pink candies, such as candy-coated chocolates, jelly beans and pink pillow mints also serve as favors.
Thirst Quenchers
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Lots of pink drinks are appropriate for a girl's birthday party. Pink lemonade, strawberry milk and cherry juice are possibilities. Placing a scoop of strawberry ice cream into a glass that girls then fill with strawberry pop is a special birthday treat; a strawberry skewered on the straw adds a special touch. In her book, "Petit Appetit: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry," Lisa Barnes suggests strawberry smoothies or juice sparklers as healthy party beverages.
Hearty Fare
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For a girl's birthday party that includes a meal, it's possible to give a particularly feminine touch to foods kids are most likely to eat. For example, girls can create their own small heart-shaped pizzas from dough and add their own toppings to canned pizza sauce. Heart-shaped sandwiches filled with strawberry-flavored cream cheese or ham cut in heart shapes serve as the main dish with a side dish of pink pasta (add red food coloring to the water when it boils).
Something Different
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In addition to the usual party fare, the birthday girl might like to serve her guests something a little different. Guests may enjoy watching Baked Alaska being prepared as much as they enjoy tasting this hot-and-cold-in-one dessert. Another special sweet treat: strawberries on skewers dipped into chocolate fondue. Local bakeries may be able to provide special treats such as pink petit fours topped with roses or sugar cookies on a stick iced with each girl's name.
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