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Chef party Chef Gingerbread cookies by Wilton

More fun with food
With sugar and spice and everything nice, here's how to make your Chef's party nice:

Pull out your Christmas cookie wares and get cooking on Wilton's Gingerbread
chefs, pictured left.

Toast some pound cake you cut into strips for a French Fries cake. Add red
frosting and place in a red plastic basket.

Make a pizza birthday cake.

Family Fun's Chef's apron cake has strings attached: candy licorice laces. Yellow
licorice lace makes a yummy plate of spaghetti.

Chef's Party Games and Activities
You won't need much in the way of games and activities as most of the party will
involve some kind of cooking instruction or presentation.

Design your own cookware. Color Aprons or white paper chef hats.

Pat a cake, pat a cake, baker's man: This game plays like Duck, Duck, Goose, but
the chase begins when the child standing names the baker's man and fares
well with the younger set.

Get Board Cooking up Sentences: Play the board game that's easier than pie.
Chefs in the 7-11 age range follow recipes, draw ingredient cards and to
identify sentence structure and learn grammar. They won't be bored: giggles
ensue from the funny sentences.

Have a food fight. Plan ahead and ask kids to bring their swimsuits. Provide
whipped cream, gelatin jigglers, marshmallows and other soft foods on a table
outside. Allow kids who want to participate to have it with each other. Set
some ground rules to avoid eyes, hard objects and so on. Provide a
boundaries, a safe word, and have a whistle to stop the mayhem. When the
food is gone, set out some buckets of water balloons and let the mayhem start
up again. Hose them down after the fight.

Make like a banana and split. Younger kids will love slicing their own peeled
banana. Provide a plastic knife and fork along with a yummy dipping sauce in a
bowl, like chocolate or caramel. You don't even need the ice cream. Kids will
love slicing and dipping.

Kids Chef Party Resources:

Get more ideas on what to create with food that looks like what it isn't.
Have fun with faux fast food for Father's Day.
Family Fun cooks up some Shamburgers in an under two minute video.
Fry up some f aux chicken nuggets.
See the video for making dogs and burgers cupcakes.

Chef Party Invitations
The recipe for creating a memorable Chef's party starts with your imagination in
designing the invitations. Think dimensionally. Deliver a pizza party invitation in a
pizza box. Roll a recipe card style invitation to a child's wooden rolling pin and stuff
in a mailing tube. Make a fancy menu with ribbons, or stuff a menu card in a menu
card holder or photo holder.

Chefs party invitation wording ideas:

Chef Cheyenne invites
Birthday cake is on the menu Saturday, August 22 at noon
Culinary Academy: 123 Main Street
RSVP: Short order cook Tiffany at 867-5309.

Recipe Card invitation wording ideas:

Cheyenne's Recipe:

A pinch of sugar, and a cup of

fun,

Eight

good friends

Mix it all together a

nd you're almost done.

Menu invitation wording ideas:

First Course: Candy sushi
Second Course: Pizza pie cookie
Third Course: Chef's special lunch
Fourth Course: Cheyenne's Birthday cake

Setting the scene
A chef's party is mostly white and with purpose: to accent the food. Even so, you'll
want to add an accent color of your choice and red is a good option for both boys
and girls. Decorate your birthday bistro with checked table cloths. Make home made
menus and have mom take the orders.

A chef's party doesn't require a lot of dough. For starters, you can m ake your
own Chef's hats from tissue paper, and sew chef's aprons from dish towels
for the party goers. Make a focal point of the decorations with a gift for your
little chef: a cardboard box oven you make entirely from scratch.

For a pizza party, you'll find a variety of pizza novelties, such as Pringles
Pizza-a-licious chips. And DCI products offers a pizza slice in your favorite
pizza:

Get Cooking on a Chef Party
Host a chef themed cooking birthday party or pizza party for kids

If you've been cooking up an idea for a party, consider a Chef's Party for your little
Chef Girl or Boy-ar-dee. Sure, you can make it a moveable feast by heading to a
cooking class for kids, or you can cook up a pizza party at home to save some dough,
but the sweetest chef's party is when kids make candy that looks like real food.

Bon-bon appetit! Your little Dough Boy or Girl will love a Chef's party will love these
faux food ideas:

Something's fishy. Fish sticks and peas made from cookies and tart taffy will fool
even the Gorton's Fisherman. Round out the meal with faux French fries and
corn on the cob cupcakes also from family fun. Serve it up at the party on a
plastic playset

Pizza pie that's amore! Turn an ordinary pizza party into a gastronomic adventure
by having kids bake a cookie pizza that resembles the real thing. For the
ultimate in authenticity, have kids put their creation in a personal sized pizza
box. (Ask your favorite pizzeria.)

Candy Kebabs. Skewer up fruit candy kebabs using fruit slices gummy candy
such as Sather's Orange Slices. (They also make a sweet drink rim). You'll also
find Watermelon candy and more on Amazon.

Kooky Sushi: With marshmallow for rice, a strip of fruit roll as the Nori wrapper,
and some cut licorice laces for salmon eggs you can craft an easy sushi roll:
Japan Blog shares a sushi candy recipe. Swedish fish is an obvious choice and
looks terrific atop a rice cereal treat mixture as Nigiri. And Rachel Ray offers her
candy sushi recipe, which combines both ideas. Even easier is Hostess snack
cake sushi. Add sushi grass garnishing paper and your culinary creations will
fool the far sighted. Send your little Suez-suez sushi pastry chefs home with
their creations in a bento box paired with chopsticks.