Need Cake and Dinner Ideas for a Kid's Sleepover Party?

[babywings76]

I have 2 requests for ideas:

1. My daughter is having a sleepover birthday party Fri. night. I have no idea what kind of cake to make. I don't have a ton of time, and am not super creative, so I need an impressive, fun and easy cake to make. Any ideas?

2. I was trying to figure out what to serve them for dinner. It's just 4 girls and my daughter. I was thinking mini pizzas and they can do their toppings. But is that fun enough? Are there PC recipes that would be better? I don't have the cut n seal.

 

[janezapchef]

One of my consultants just did a girls' b-day party show. They made (because they all cooked together) a sparkling beverage in the quick stir, cheeseburger salad, 1 min, 10 sec. SA cakes, fruit kebabs with fruit dip and -- ah, I was on the phone with her and typing then we each got calls. I'll get back to you.

On the cakes, I would check Familyfun.com they have LOTS of cute and easy cake ideas!

 

[janezapchef]

Ok, it was fancy fruit kebabs, fluffy pb dip, cool calypso dip, hawaiian fruit dip, sparkling citrus cooler, deluxe cheeseburger salad, molten lava cakes or 1 min 15 sec cakes. She had recipe cards (which she's sending me) for all of these and the girls made mini recipe books there. Then, extra recipes to take home were jerk chicken nachos, creamy one pot pasta, spinach carbonara pizza, not a creature was stirring cupcakes, marshmallow treat ornaments, candycane brownie lollipops. I'll post when she sends them to me.

 

[janezapchef]

Here's the file of recipe cards. Again, this was a show that was the little girl's bday party as well. The girls took the recipe books home to their parents with the hope of getting orders. I don't think she got much out of it, but the girls had a blast! That's why I though of it for you.

 

[babywings76]

Can the molten lava cakes be made in the prep bowls? Or are they too small? I only have 2 of the small square bowls, is that what the recipe is leaning towards?

 

[janezapchef]

I've never made. My consultant who gave me the info said she makes them in the small sa bowls for 1 min 30 sec. She's never made in prep bowls.

 

[chefann]

I remember seeing a cute sleepover cake somewhere on the internet (it might have been posted here, actually). It was a 9x13 cake with Ho-Ho's on top under the frosting, so that the resultant lumps represented kids in sleeping bags.

 

[babywings76]

How cute! I'll have to see if I can find that. Not sure if I can make that this time because I already went shopping late last night to get the stuff. I was thinking of making things as easy as possible for me (I'm so stressed right now with the amount of PC stuff I have to get done), so I decided to just make a yellow cake mix and add the pudding mix to it and make it in the fluted stone, then frost with choc. frosting and sprinkle M&M's on. We are going to make pizza for dinner. I was trying to figure out how they can make their own ones. I bought Pillsbury pizza crust and am going to see if I can cut it into small crusts, or I also bought the Pillsbury Grands biscuits and was thinking maybe if I flatten them out they could work as a crust? I bought extras to experiment for lunch today. If that doesn't seem to be that great, I'll just bag the idea and make regular pizzas with different toppings on each half.

 

[chefann]

For individual pizzas, just unroll the crust and cut it into squares. Let each girl have a square of dough to top. I think that the pizza is a good idea. What kid doesn't like pizza?

 

[babywings76]

For individual pizzas, just unroll the crust and cut it into squares. Let each girl have a square of dough to top.

I think that the pizza is a good idea. What kid doesn't like pizza?

Great idea, cutting it into squares. Thanks! Who says pizza has to be round?!! I think that will work great and be the easiest way to go for me.