Evangeline's birthday weekend was wonderful. On Saturday we took her to indoor playground for the first time and she loved it. Then we ventured on over to the Disney store so she could pick out a present. We've done the same tradition with Hadley ever since her first birthday as well. We then ended the evening with ice cream, one of her favorite treats! On Sunday we had her birthday party with just a few immediate family members. When Hadley turned one we had a large party with lots of friends and family but circumstances are so much different now and with having some family members that are considered high risk we didn't feel comfortable doing a large party. Her party was cute and simple and I loved it more that way I think.
This blog post is going to consist of a few different things. Below I have shared all of the links for the balloons and decorations. I have also included the recipes for the homemade banana zucchini smash cake and the punch that we served at the party. If I am missing any details that you would like to know, please feel free to message me.
The balloon garland was pretty easy to make, I purchased everything on Amazon. I know of some who like to use a balloon pump but we didn't and it still didn't take too long to make. The most tedious part was pulling the balloons through the arch strip, my hands got a bit tired LOL. This was my first time making an arch so I was unsure if I should follow a pattern or not but I just made up my own and it seemed to work out alright. For this arch I followed a pattern of blush, brown, cream, rose.
This is an assorted mix of pastel balloons. I used the blush color out of this set for the arch.
The cake was made by a local bakery that we've used several time now and love! I sent them a picture of the mouse party wrapping paper and they used it as inspiration to decorate the cake. Evangeline's smash cake was a banana zucchini cake I made for her. The recipe will be posted below.
ZUCCHINI BANANA CAKE RECIPE
INGREDIENTS
Cake
1 1/2
cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
1
cup granulated sugar
1/2
teaspoon ground cinnamon
1
teaspoon baking powder
1/4
teaspoon baking soda
1/2
teaspoon salt
1
cup mashed ripe bananas (2 medium)
1
cup shredded zucchini (1 medium)
1
egg
1/2
cup vegetable oil
1
teaspoon vanilla
Frosting
4
oz cream cheese, softened
4
tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
2
cups powdered sugar, sifted
1
tablespoon milk
1
teaspoon vanilla
DIRECTIONS
- Heat oven to 350° F. Spray 8-inch square pan with cooking spray; line with cooking parchment paper.
- In large bowl, mix flour, granulated sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In medium bowl, mix bananas, zucchini, egg, vegetable oil and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients all at once; stir just until combined.
- Spread batter in pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until cake just begins to turn brown on top and toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely in pan, about 1 hour.
- In medium bowl, beat Frosting ingredients with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy. Spread evenly on top of cake. Cut into 3 rows by 3 rows. Cover and refrigerate any remaining cake.
Above is the link for the wrapping paper, unfortunately it is out of stock now but maybe they'll get it back.
