Happy Birthday Princess

Amanda turns 14 yrs old on Monday. Today she had 5 friends over for a Princess Birthday Party! I made a castle birthday cake - 2 13x9 cakes on the bottom and 2 8" round layers on top; toilet paper tubes covered with silver paper, topped with frosted ice cream cones.

The girls got dressed up and made ribbon-covered pens, body glitter ( aloe vera gel mixed with fine glitter) and "princess headgear" from tulle, ribbon, and silk flowers.

Then they divided into teams of 3 and played "fashion designer", creating a gown from tissue paper! ( and tape and staples)

In addition to the cake, we served chocolate-covered strawberries, cream puffs, chicken salad in puff pastry cups, and orange-pineapple punch.

Cream Puffs

1 cup water

1 stick butter

1/4 tsp. salt

1 cup flour

4 eggs

Put water and butter in saucepan, and bring to a rolling boil. Remove from heat and add flour and salt all at once. Beat with a wooden spoon until dough forms a ball. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until dough is smooth and glossy. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes. Cool. To fill, slice top off of cream puff with serrated knife.

Filling:

1 sm. pkg cheesecake flavor Jello instant pudding mix

1 pint heavy cream

1/2 cup milk

Beat ingredients together with mixer. Chill to set. Spoon a heaping tablespoonful into each cream puff. Drizzle with Chocolate glaze.

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