Mar. 25, 2006 - Paris' Cooking Birthday Party

My little baker is having her eighth birthday Party on Monday!! 

She wanted a cooking/baking theme, and she wants to make home made cinnamon rolls instead of a cake for her party activity.  She has invited 5 girls, so there will be 6 girls total.  Each of the girls are bringing a couple of their favorite recipes for Paris' binder/cookbook.  The grandma's all sent their favorite recipes, and I copied and laminated those, as well as some of my own favorites.  Paris will get to have her own cookbook instead of always using mine!!:)

Since bread actually takes 5-6 hours to make with rising time, and the party is only 2 1/2 hours... we're doing it ala' TV way.  Paris and I will mix up a big batch of bread in the morning, set it aside, punch it down and have it ready to go during the party.

When the girls arrive, we'll have them in pairs make their "own" batches of bread.  Once they are to the point of letting it rise, we'll put it aside, and bring out the already risen bread.  The girls will get to create their cinnamon rolls with extras like nuts, blueberries, apple pieces, raisins, etc. available... and then we'll let them rise while we clean up and do our craft.  (Wooden spoon puppets or decorating a can to keep "real" wooden spoons in, Paris hasn't decided which we'll do)

Then, while the cinnamon rolls are baking, we'll work on decorating our place-setting placemats and talk about table manners a bit... I'll have them practice with the "real" silver and whatnot...  I got the info from this site and am printing out a copy for each girl to take home.

The girls will all go home with some of Paris' favorite recipes (including the cinnamon rolls) and their craft, laminated placemat to help them remember the proper place settings, and a three ring binder for each to keep their recipes in.

If there's time, we'll play some games, but knowing these girls, we'll probably end up crafting, baking and eating... with maybe a bit of time on the bar and rings upstairs!