Party Snack Ideas: Spiderman Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

Such a great idea for a Spiderman themed party! These red velvet whoopie pies are super easy to make, and would look great on a Spiderman themed snack table. Use melted white chocolate to decorate your pies with webs, or even make a little Spiderman mask!

What you'll need:

• 1 box Betty Crocker yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 box chocolate instant pudding
• 2 tbsp red food coloring
• 1 7oz jar of marshmallow creme
• 1 8oz package of creme cheese (softened)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Melted white chocolate (for decorating)

Follow along with Popsugar Food's great tutorial to make your own: 

Party Snack Ideas - Minion Cupcakes

Having a Minions themed party? Here's another great idea for your snack table from Nerdy Nummies. These Minion cupcakes are super easy to make, and they're oh-so-cute!

What you'll need:

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled)
• 3/4 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (about 4 ripe bananas)
• 2 large eggs
• Twinkies (one package will make 4 cupcakes)
• Smarties
• Black decorating icing
• White creamy frosting
• Blue food coloring

Use Martha Stewart's Banana Cupcake recipe to make the base, then follow along with Rosanna to "Minionize" them. :) 

Party Snack Ideas - Rainbow Cake Pops

These inside-out Rainbow Cake Pops are perfect for any Rainbow themed party. They look and taste great and they're surprisingly easy to make.

What you'll need:

• 1 box of yellow cake mix
• 1 can of vanilla frosting
• 1 12-ounce package blue candy melts
• 1 package of mini m&m's
• Mini marshmallows (1 for each cake pop)
• Food coloring pastes (Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)
• Block of styrofoam to hold pops while they dry

Here's the step-by-step instructions from Munchkin Munchies.

Fantastic Birthday Party Cupcake Designs

I found this wonderful how-to on Parenting.com's blog about making cupcakes!    There are tons of cute ideas here.. and in my experience, cupcakes are a really great way to go at birthday parties.  You can spend some quality time with the birthday kid the day before, decorating and stacking, and when it comes time to pass out the cake, it couldn't possibly be any easier than just handing a cupcake to everyone.

If you can, it's a good idea to make a couple different flavors - some kids just love chocolate, while other kids are definitely vanilla types.  To save yourself some heartache though, you probably want to frost them in all the same color, or there will be tears when you run out of the pink ones!

Cupcake Design How-To