DIY Helium Balloons

No helium needed to fill balloons for parties.....just vinegar and baking soda!

Mickey Mouse; Minnie's Frozen Fruit Bites

image & recipe @spoonful.com

Makes 12 cookies

What you'll need

• 12 vanilla wafer cookies
• ½ cup vanilla yogurt
• ½ cup Neufchâtel cream cheese, softened
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon honey
• Sliced kiwi, strawberries, or whole blueberries

How to make it

1. Place liners in a mini-cupcake pan. Put a wafer cookie, flat side up, in the bottom of each well.
2. In a medium-size bowl, whisk together the yogurt, cream cheese, lemon juice, and honey until smooth. Spoon 1 heaping tablespoon on top of each cookie, then top the mixture with the fruit.
3. Cover the pan with plastic wrap, then place it in the freezer until the fruit bites are firm, about 1 to 1½ hours. Remove the tray from the freezer for 15 to 25 minutes before serving.
   
   

   
   

   Nutritional Information

   Serving size: 1 cookie
   Calories 68
   Total Fat 4g
   Total Carbohydrate 7g
   Fiber 0g
   Protein 2g
   Carbohydrate Choice ½ 
   
   

Alice in Wonderland; Edible Teacups

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What you'll need

• Cup-style wafer ice cream cone
• Round sugar or shortbread cookie
• Decorator's icing
• 2 gummy rings candies
• ssorted candies, popcorn, or trail mix to fill the teacup

How to make it

1. Use a serrated knife to carefully cut the cup portion of the ice cream cone from the handle (an adult's job). Discard the handle and set the cup aside for now.
2. Place a gummy ring candy on the center of the cookie, using decorator's icing to "glue" it in place.
3. Set the ice cream cone cup on top of the gummy ring. Again, use a thin line of decorator's icing to hold the cone in place, if needed.
4. For a teacup handle, slice the second gummy ring in half. Gently press the cut ends of one of the candy halves against the cone to stick the handle in place.
5. Fill the cup with a few candies or other snacks, and it's teatime!
6. Use a serrated knife to carefully cut the cup portion of the ice cream cone from the handle (an adult's job). Discard the handle and set the cup aside for now.

Pretzel Rod Fairy Wands

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What you'll need

• 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
• Microwavable bowl
• Wooden spoon
• Rubber spatula
• 3 pretzel rods
• Waxed paper
• Pink, blue, and green decorator sugars and/or candies

How to make it

1. Microwave the white chocolate chips for 15-second intervals until they are nearly melted. Stir the chips until you have a smooth icing.
2. Use a rubber spatula to evenly spread white chocolate on one of the pretzel rods, leaving the bottom inch or so uncoated.
3. Working over a waxed paper-covered surface, generously sprinkle pink sugar and/or candies on the white chocolate before it hardens.
4. Repeat the process to transform the other two pretzel rods into blue and green wands.

Harry Potter; Butterbeer

image & recipe @MagicalRecipes.com

Ingredients - Butterbeer

1. 6 12-ounce bottles chilled cream soda
2. 3 teaspoons (1 tablespoon) imitation butter flavour
3. Optional: 1 ounce light rum, per serving, for alcoholic version

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Ingredients - Foam

1. 2 cups heavy cream
2. 6 tablespoons sugar
3. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4. 1 1/2 teaspoons imitation butter flavour

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Directions - Butterbeer

1. Set out 6 16-ounce glasses
2. Pour foam mixture in to glass
3. Pour 12 ounces of cream soda into each glass
4. Place 1/2 teaspoon of imitation butter in each glass
5. Lightly stir, if necessary

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Directions - Foam

1. In a large bowl whip the heavy cream on medium high speed for 3-4 minutes until it starts to thicken.
2. Add the sugar and continue whipping until very soft peaks begin to form, another 3-4 minutes.
3. Stir in the vanilla and imitation butter and whip for another 30 seconds or so, until soft peaks form.

Harry Potter; Pumpkin Juice

image & recipe @MagicalRecipes.com

Ingredients

1. 1 cup pumpkin pie puree
2. 1 cup apple juice chilled
3. 1/2 cup pineapple juice chilled
4. whipped cream optional
5. dash of cinnamon sugar

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Directions

1. Into your blender or food processor add: pumpkin pie puree, apple juice and pineapple juice.
2. Pulse to combine.
3. Pour into glasses.
4. Top with whipped cream and cinnamon sugar if desired.

Toy Story; Green Alien Cupcakes

image & recipe @MagicalRecipes.com

Ingredients

1. Cupcakes, baked from your favorite recipe
2. White frosting, store-bought or from your favorite recipe
3. Neon green food coloring
4. Mint-flavored chewable candies (found packaged in rolls)
5. Green apple sour belts
6. Green apple sour straws, cut into 2" pieces
7. Black decorator gel icing
8. Kitchen shears, or a small leaf shaped fondant cutter

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Directions

1. First, mix up a batch of alien green icing by adding few drops of neon green food coloring to your favorite white icing.
2. Prepare your aliens' ears. Cut ears, shaped like teardrops, from green apple belts. A pair of kitchen shears works well, or use a small leaf shaped fondant cutter. You will need 2 ears for each cupcake.
3. Frost cupcakes and insert a 2" sour straw antenna.
4. Press your ears into the sides of the cupcake.
5. Line up three mint-flavored, chewable candies as eyes, and dot with black gel icing for pupils.
6. Give your aliens an awed expression by drawing on a circle for a mouth with black gel icing.