4 tier beer can cake - Happy BEERthday tags - how to make tutorial - Super easy - Fun idea for 21st birthday

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This year we made my husband a beer cake for his birthday. 

Happy BEERthday!

I matched all the colors and made a gold, white, and black theme. 

I picked several of his favorite beers. 

Made these Happy BEERthday tags. Email me if you want the file.

Easy to print!

I also had some glitter prints leftover from the red carpet event and used the same star punch.

I used 57 beers total

12 pack Shiner Bock

6 pack Shiner Bock

15 pack Blue Moon

12 pack Heineken

6 pack Stash IPA

6 pack Firemans #4

I used a large bowl as a template for the bottom tier. 

Traced on foam board left over from the mosaic birthday balloons. 

Use a box cutter or exacto knife to cut from the foam board.

I'm using these from Amazon since you can just pop the end off and have a brand new blade.

I had leftover gold/silver poster boards from the money cake tutorial. 

Cut and taped to the foam board. It didn't look good just white.

Arranged the beers to see how many per tier.

I used a smaller bowl to trace the next tier.

Traced an even smaller bowl for the top tier.

I basically just set all the beers on the table and put the foam board in between each layer. I originally tried to just stack them but it looked like it would fall any second. It really needs the boards for support. 

top tier - 3 cans

2nd tier - 7 cans

3rd tier - 20 cans

bottom tier - 27 cans

NOTE: the bottom tier on the table is not completely full. Shhhhh. I spread them out to the edge of the foam board. It's full but not completely full like the other layers.

Since they are just stacked it would be difficult to transport. Maybe hot glue the beers to each foam board layer??? It was really heavy but maybe an idea if you need to take it somewhere. 

I put the stars on wooden dowels and stuck between beers. Not attached either.

I thought about adding ribbon but it took away from all the labels.

AND for my husbands birthday gift.....a FULL Thanksgiving dinner. His birthday is about 1/2 way in the year from Thanksgiving so it works out perfect. 

I cook everything! 

Turkey

Green bean casserole

Mashed potatoes

Stuffing

Corn

Roasted broccoli

Sweet potatoes

Deviled eggs

Rolls

Pumpkin pie

Fluffy pumpkin spice cheesecake

This is an annual tradition and one of his favorite meals.

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ZOMBIE eyeballs - Deviled eggs - Kids HALLOWEEN party ideas - themed food

I love Halloween and love to make themed party food. Here are my deviled eggs this year. 

Hard boiled eggs and my regular deviled egg recipe. 

This was my test run before the party so I used pre-made hard boiled eggs from the store. If you are short on time it works perfect. I do think homemade tastes sooooooo much better.

I added green food color and mixed. I always bag and use an icing tip to re-fill. You can fill any way you like. 

NOTE: One year I tried using avocado to make them green BUT if you pre-make (which I do) the avocado turns brown and so do your eggs. They look really gross and maybe that's what you are going for. I wanted them green so food color did the trick!

Smoothed out

Added olives for the center of the eye

Added red food color to mayo and drew red "veins"

Everyone loved them!!!

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GINGERBREAD house decorating - How to set-up for an easy and fun party - Graham cracker houses, icing, & candy

I decided to do this very last minute (the day before the party) and it was surprisingly easy to pull together.  

The houses are made out of graham crackers and can be made in advance (for me the night before) and same for the icing. 

TUTORIAL for icing and houses HERE

The day of the party I worked and off only an hour before the party started. I had the table decorated and cups set so the only thing to do when I got home was fill the cups with goodies, mix a batch of icing and put the hot chocolate in the crockpot. Easy! Ummm.... okay, I was stressing about time {{panic attack}} but it all worked out.

The kids had a blast!

I did have a little help that day with the cardboard covered with wrapping paper. My hubby and kids did that while I was at work. I picked a thick, plastic feeling wrapping paper. Maybe a foil. I didn't want the icing making it look greasy. Plus it was glittery too! :)

I think cellophane wrapping would work too.

Goodies: marshmallow peeps (trees and snowman,) shredded mini wheat, candy canes, Christmas candy corns, Hersey hugs and kisses, gum drops, mini M&M's, marshmallows, waffle pretzels, snowman candy, Christmas chocolate chips, peanut butter cups, cheerios, mini M&M's, Santa shaped chocolate and peppermints. I bought teddy grahams but forgot to set them out. 

Any other ideas I forgot?

Love this one! Santa's sleigh crashing into the house. 

Some of the houses

We also had a HOT CHOCOLATE BAR!!!! Huge hit! I made the hot chocolate the night before (while putting together gingerbread houses) and put it back in the crockpot when I got home to warm up.

Here is an AWESOME Hot Chocolate Recipe 

Decorating cookies??? 

PERFECT recipe for cookie royal icing HERE

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NO BAKE - THANKSGIVING mini desserts! Fluffy PUMPKIN SPICE cheesecake - SUPER easy!

OH MY these are good!!!!! I was going to just color my original recipe orange to fit the Thanksgiving theme until I found PUMPKIN SPICE jello!!!!! I did a trial run to see if they taste as good as my french vanilla and everyone LOVED them! Making these for Thanksgiving for sure now!

Yummm!!!

1 1/4 cups of milk (we drink Almond milk and it works the same)

1 block of cream cheese (softened)

1 pkg of french vanilla pudding mix

2 tubs of whip cream 

1 pkg graham crackers

2oz plastic shot glasses or one 9 inch graham cracker crust

PUMPKIN SPICE!!! I found this at Wal-Mart. I looked at Randalls, Target and HEB and they don't carry it.

Detailed instructions and pictures see THIS POST

Layered and topped with a pumpkin spice hershey kiss. If you can't find them the carmel has the same color kiss in the package.

I actually thought of the candy corn pumpkin at first (still cute) but the colors looked better with the kiss.

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