Parties for Kids

An excellent resource for the Mother who is mad enough to host an 'at home' party but hasn't got the requisite imagination and arty crafty skills that make it a real success. Full Color Photographs make the suggestions easy to envisage and copy. Ideas for invitations, decorations, favours, games and food are all included making it a comprehensive manual.I attempted the fairytale castle cake for my Daughters 5th birthday and was delighted to find that the result was excellent, indistinguishable from the picture in the book. However a word of caution to others, make up more frosting than the book recommends. Also if like me you find chocolate covered jelly rolls, impossible to find don't even attempt to use uncovered jelly rolls they aren't rigid enough and refuse to be covered in icing, breaking up instead. Substitute standard aluminum cans instead which are far more ameanable to being iced and are exactly the right proportions for a two layer 8 inch square cake with small semi-circular sections cut out of each corner to slot the cans into. Obviously the towers aren't edible this way but the effect is excellent. I'm feeling so impowered I'm even contemplating attempting the train cake for my son's birthday next month!