I am friends with a real life Mermaid. Naturally, when her birthday rolled around, we had to throw her a mermaid themed birthday party. My assistant, of course, was Pinterest. I found a few ideas and added my personal spin to it.
We decided to surprise her on a Sunday afternoon, with a light lunch.
On the menu were:
Starfish sandwiches: Toasted tuna and mayo cut up in the shape of stars.
Sebastian the crab rangoon: crab meat mixed with cream cheese and chives, cased in pastry.
Sea cucumbers and crab legs: Regular cucumbers and carrot sticks.
Shark teeth: Cheese flavored Doritos
Seaweed Dip: Spinach and cream cheese dip.
- 1 cup spinach [I used fresh spinach]
- 8oz cream cheese
- 1/2 cup *low-fat milk
- 1/2 cup shredded cheese
- Cook the spinach as you regularly would.
- Create a creamy sauce by blending the cream cheese and milk on the stove. Add salt and pepper as desired.
- Mix the spinach into the creamy sauce.
- Pour the creamy spinach delight into a casserole dish, top with shredded cheese.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees celsius (350 F)
A mermaid party without cake is just a meeting. For the birthday cake, I baked a hot milk sponge cake with pink frosting because our mermaid loves pink.
- 4 eggs
- 300ml sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 2 cups flour
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- 250ml milk
- 100g butter
- Beat the eggs and sugar until creamy, then add the vanilla essence.
- Sift the flour and baking powder into the mixture.
- On the stove, melt the butter into the milk **Do not boil!* Remove from the heat and add it to the mixing bowl.
- Pour the batter into 2 round baking tins.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes at 180 degrees celsius.
Frosting:
- 125g butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 6 teaspoons milk
- food color of your choice.
After the cakes cooled, I sandwiched them together with strawberry jam. I used a piping bag with the round nose decorating tip to make a scale like
design around the cake. Pipe a dot, then use a spoon out one side creating an almost skid effect.
For the tail, I drew a light outline using a skewer and piped the frosting in and around the outline, using the star nose decorating tip.
Our surprise party was a success. After lunch, we spent the afternoon watching H2O: Mermaid Adventures on Netflix.
This is really cool. Thanks for the idea. I also like to attend a mermaid party someday!
Thank you!