My daughter Melodie's turned two the week before Christmas, but I didn't have time to plan a party (I feel so guilty - I didn't have time to plan one last year either!). However, we had a small party for her at daycare. And since I did Hello Kitty last year, this year I decided to do her second favorite character - Elmo!
I made Elmo cupcakes for the party (post to come later), and for the favors I made Elmo cookies. I used this Elmo cookie cutter, and my favorite homemade sugar cookie and royal icing recipes (but you could of course use store bought).
After the cookies were baked and cooled, I used black royal icing to pipe the outlines for Elmo's eyes, nose, and face. When the outlines had dried, I filled in the face with various colors of royal icing - red for the face, orange for the nose, black for the mouth, and white for the eyes.
And the finishing touch was adding Elmo's eyeballs.
As always, I wrapped the cookies cellophane bags tied with raffia and custom favor tags.
Melodie loved them! And so did all the kids (and teachers) in her class! More to come on the other Elmo goodies that Melodie enjoyed on her birthday!
*** Update: I also made Elmo cupcakes and an Elmo cake! You can cupcakes here, and the cake here!
Melodie loved them! And so did all the kids (and teachers) in her class! More to come on the other Elmo goodies that Melodie enjoyed on her birthday!
*** Update: I also made Elmo cupcakes and an Elmo cake! You can cupcakes here, and the cake here!
