Party Snack Ideas: Mickey or Minnie Mouse Cupcakes

Minnie and Mickey have always been a huge favorite for birthday parties, and Disney Family has a great idea for your snack table: Mickey or Minnie cupcakes!

What you'll need:

• Your favorite cupcake mix
• Vanilla frosting
• Red or pink food dye
• Red or pink sprinkles
• Chocolate sandwich cookies 
• Mini chocolate sandwich cookies 
• Yellow or white chocolate-covered candies 

Make them just like in the tutorial for Mickey parties, or make slight changes for a Minnie party:

Here's the full step-by-step tutorial, from Disney Family. Or follow along with their great video:

Party Snack Ideas - Tinkerbell Cupcakes

Having a Tinkerbell themed party and looking for snack ideas for your guests? These Tinkerbell cupcakes look and taste great, and they even double as giveaways for your party guests.

What you'll need:

• Spatula
• Drinking straw
• Knife
• Spoon
• Saran wrap
• Disposable piping bag & leaf piping tip (for frosting)
• Wilton Color Mist Food Spray (Elise uses gold for her cupcakes)
• Your favorite cupcake mix (twice as much as you'd need to make cupcakes for each of your guests, since each will need 2 cupcakes)
• Buttercream frosting (use your favorite recipe, or use Elise's recipe)
• Tinkerbell and Fairy Friends dolls (check eBay or your local dollar store or Target for great deals)
• Cupcake wrappers (print your own Tinkerbell themed ones here)

And here's the full tutorial from My Cupcake Addiction:

If you're feeling especially adventurous, you can also make this amazing Tinkerbell pinata cake: 

Full tutorial (also from My Cupcake Addiction) here. 

Have fun, and happy snacking!

Disney Cakes from Cakewrecks.com

We see a lot of amazing birthday cakes, being Professional Princesses.  You people are so creative.  But these cakes from the post Sunday Sweets: Disney on Cakewrecks.com .. well.. they..  take the cake.

(sorry)

I'm feeling so inspired.. this one from Fantasia is my favorite!

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