Ideas for a Beatles- themed Birthday Party?!
Obviously I thought we'd have their music playing in the backround. I'm looking for karaoke songs we could use (any thoughts on where to find such songs?).
And for decor I was just planning on hanging up records and record covers/movie posters.
I'm going to try to make a yellow submarine cake and maybe either a walrus or strawberry fields cake as well. Any other cake ideas?
If anyone could give me their input and ideas, I would be so very grateful. Thanks!
Answers: I'm planning a Fab Four themed birthday party for me and my friend. (It's a surprise for him, though.) I was wondering if anyone had any ideas.
Obviously I thought we'd have their music playing in the backround. I'm looking for karaoke songs we could use (any thoughts on where to find such songs?).
And for decor I was just planning on hanging up records and record covers/movie posters.
I'm going to try to make a yellow submarine cake and maybe either a walrus or strawberry fields cake as well. Any other cake ideas?
If anyone could give me their input and ideas, I would be so very grateful. Thanks!
play Beatles trivia, get some of their movies and documentaries to play on the TV, make CDs for the guests of their good songs for party favors. make it a 60's dress up, so your guests can come all done up. yellow submarine will be a good one, just make a white frosted sheet cake and make a submarine on it, or you can find a good picture and have one of those photo cakes made from the grocery store.
Everyone comes in through the bathroom window.
Put bug shaped candy in your punch.
Perhaps a dead dog cake with yellow matter dripping from it's eye?
Ewww
Octopus's garden?
I know! Do a Helter Skelter cake! I have a recipe for this in a children's party book.
You need to make the using a 470ml, 940ml and a 1.5L pudding basin.
You need to mix 6 eggs, 375g flour, 375g sugar, 375g soft butter and 2 teaspoons of baking powder for about 2-3 minutes.
Colour half the cake mixture pink with red food dye. Two-thirds fill the basins with alternate spoonfuls of cake mixture. Stir together with a fine skewer. Smooth the tops and bake the small cake for 25 minutes, medium cake for 35-40 minutes, and the large one for 55-60 minutes.
Turn out and cool on a wire rack.
To make the soft icing, beat 500g soft butter, 2 tablespoons of milk, and a few drops of vanilla essence together in a bowl for 2-3 minutes until light and fluffy. Set aside.
For the moulding icing you need 1/2 an egg white, 1/2 a tablespoon of liquid glucose and 250g of icing sugar.
Place the egg white and glucose in a bowl and beat together lightly with a fork. Add the icing sugar gradually, beating with a wooden spoon until the icing is very stiff. Knead in the remaining icing sugar with your hands until a smooth silky ball is formed.
Continue kneading the dough on a surface sprinkled with icing sugar until it is no longer sticky. Knead enough red food dye into the moulding icing to colour it deep red. Cover in plastic wrap and set aside.
Split the large cake into 3 layers and the other s in half. Sandwich them together with soft icing, then assemble the cakes, on top of each other on a cake board, securing with the icing. Trim to smooth sides and swirl icing over the top and sides.
Roll the red moulding icing to a thin sausage, 45cm long; press to flatten to a 3.5cm wide strip.
Starting at the top, position the strip round the cake to form a slide, pushing fruit pastilles under the slide for support.
Cut two doors from ice-cream wafers and place one at the top of the slide, and one at the bottom. Stick jelly sweet handles on each, using icing. Cut 'mats' from wafers. Attach 4 jelly babies to mats and stick on the slide. Place a pile of wafer mats at the base. Stick fruit pastilles around the top and base, and around the cake above the slide.
Press lollipops in the top.
Food symbolizing different songs...as for the cake...how about the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band drum design
