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What is a Golden Birthday? – Robot Party and Cake

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What is a Golden Birthday? - Robot Party and Cake
JDaniel celebrate his birthday several days last week. I guess if it is your Golden Birthday it tends to be celebrated many times due to the fact that it comes only once in your lifetime.  What is a Golden Birthday? Well, JDaniel celebrates his birthday on the 5th of March and he did turn five on that day. I shared with you last week his Golden Birthday breakfast.  Along with sharing the food creations from that breakfast, I wanted to share the cakes I made for his class and his Chuck E. Cheese party. 

 
Robot Birthday Cake
 

 

What is a Golden Birthday? - Robot Party and Cake

 
I looked forward to putting together his golden robot birthday cake all week. I found a robot cake on the Betty Crocker website and tried to create one like it. It was so easy to put together, but took me a little longer than I thought it would.
The cake is a simple yellow cake. The icing is caramel and was created stir in flavor packet and canned frosting. Before frosting the cake I cut 2/3 off the top and used it for the body. I also cut a narrow sliver off the body to use for his feet. Everything but his cupcake hands came from a cake made in a 9×12 pan. His hands are made from two cupcakes. Oh! and his ears or head bolts are made of a cupcake cut in half.

Once the cake was frosted, licorice to connect this hands and feet to his body. Extra licorice  Skiddles, Life Savers in gummy form, and golden Oreo like cookies to create his buttons and facial features. I had a blast creating them.

Robot Cupcakes

What is a Golden Birthday? - Robot Party and Cake

JDaniel took these cupcakes to school on Wednesday for snack. He doesn’t go to school on Tuesday so, we had to wait a day to celebrate his birthday with his class. I asked, “What is a golden birthday?” They hadn’t heard of it before and they thought is was cool.
I used the same cake mix and frosting combination to make his his cupcakes that I later used to make his cake. The robots also had the same licorice mouths. These mouths were  a lot more serious than the one on the cake. A food maker was used to draw eyeballs on the Skittles.  Marshmallow were cut in half to make the robot’s head bolts or ears.


Golden Breakfast
 

What is a Golden Birthday? - Robot Party and Cake

 
 
You may remember that JDaniel’s Golden Birthday Breakfast  was filled with a variety of golden foods. He had golden apple parfaits made up of apple pie filling, yogurt, and Golden Grahams cereal layered in a cup. He also had doughnut holes served the shape of a five and apple juice. 
Golden Birthday Robot Treat Bags

What is a Golden Birthday? - Robot Party and Cake

Last week I shared a post called 23 Moms Share Treat Bags Ideas with you. I loved so many of their ideas that I tried to incorporate them into JDaniel’s treat bag.

I didn’t buy special bags for his treats instead I used plain zip lock bags. They were so easy to seal and parents didn’t have to deal with ribbons and party bag. They weren’t pretty, but they were functional.

Into the bags I placed a thank you card for coming to the party, a robot sticker book, robot stickers, fruit chews, and two fruit strips. I didn’t what to include candy or plastic trinkets  The moms in the treat bag post had said they didn’t like to see them in the bag.

The parents seemed pleased with this and so were the kids.

I think this is my favorite party theme so far!
Did celebrate your golden birthday?
 

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  6. I’m sure he loved that Robot cake and his classmates loved the robot cupcakes!! What a cute idea! I love the idea of using little food storage bags to put the party favors in–and no candy? Well at least the Mom’s were happy!!

  7. Oh that is a super adorable cake! I love it! My kids would have loved a robot cake like that when they were little. Now they want super fancy like a Star Wars Rebel trooper ship or the likes. lol.

  8. That cake ought to win a prize!

    I’ve seen some pretty cute pirate parties, and also a Star Wars party, but the best of all had to be my youngest grandson’s snake party. They even invited a wild life person to come with a bunch of snakes for them to “meet” in person.

    =)

  11. Oh my word, I love it! Thanks for sharing the birthday fun with us. I’m going to pin this for future reference, even though my kiddo won’t celebrate his “golden” birthday for another few years. Hope you’re having a great week.

    Mary Catherine of Fun-A-Day!
    fun-a-day.com

  14. We had a robot theme for my son’s fourth birthday, and it was very fun. Your cake is adorable!!!

    My daughter just had a craft theme for her seventh birthday, and it was fun as well!

  15. That is so cute! My kids would love to have a robot cake and cupcakes on their birthdays.

    Tesa @ 2 Wired 2 Tired

  16. JoAnne’s craft stores have those cardboard white robots you can color on or decorate!! I bought those for a b day party once… 🙂

  18. That cake is super cake! I read about what a golden birthday was the other day. I never knew! But none of my family has reached their golden birthday so we can still celebrate it!

  19. what a great cake!!!! i get it now, I need to step outside the box more with creativity 🙂
    way to go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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