I Am Papa Squat

In an effort to become more Pinterest-ing, I wanted to post pictures of my son's Lego birthday party. I scavenged the web for months gathering ideas. This was the result:

Lego Head Pops turned out great! I took marshmallows and cut off the top 1/4. I then used an icing tip to cut a smaller circle out of the small part of the marsmallow and stuck it back on the big marshmallow for the lego head nubbin. I put the marshmallows on sticks and dipped them in yellow candy melts. I then stuck the pops into a styrofoam cube to harden. Faces were painted on using a small artists brush and a jar of black gel icing.

The Lego Banner was pretty awesome. I downloaded a Lego font, printed the letters on white cardstock, glued them onto red cardstock and traced around the letters with a yellow marker to make it look like an authentic Lego logo!

The plates were just the cheap yellow luncheon plates from party city. I took a permanant marker and drew individual faces on them to make them look like lego heads. (Yes, each plate had a different face. I am such a freak.) I didn't get around to adding a nubbin, but no one seemed to notice.

My lego head cake was a different story. I was going to do cupcakes with the Lego candy on top (which I ordered from Amazon). However, I saw people who had made lego head cakes online and thought i could do it (without a trial run, I might add). I used normal cake mix (2 boxes), 3 9 inch pans and a 4 inch pan. When I got the 9 inch cakes leveled and stacked, the dimensions for the nubbin weren't quite right, so I had to shave down my cake. I colored buttercream frosting with yellow food coloring until it was Lego-ish. I did the face with cookie icing. It would have been okay had I known I was supposed to put a thin layer of icing on to catch the crumbs before putting on the final layer. Hubby said it looked like my Lego man had a 5 o'clock shadow on his entire head.