Need ideas for birthday treats?

Question

I need some ideas for making treats to take to my son's school for his birthday. I want to do something more original than cupcakes. He's going to be 8 and he likes Sponge Bob and Harry Potter. They don't have to be incorporated into the treats but if that helps at all....any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Definitely check out family fun's website...they have great ideas, including very original cupcakes.

http://familyfun.go.com/

Answer 2

A lot of grocery stores will make cupcake cakes. The 24 or so cupcakes are frosted together, overlapping into the image of the charactor the kid loves. I've seen this with done with Sponge Bob quite often.

Answer 3

Well instead of doing something like cupcakes, if you want to do something that would be along a Harry Potter theme, you could take pretzel rods and dip them in chocolate, and before the chocolate fully sets, dip each pretzel rod into a variety of different coatings (crushed butterfingers, crushed oreo's, m&ms, candy sprinkles etc.,) It would look like a magic wand, and they aren't that messy either.

Answer 4

Dirt cake.
I took these in for my sons birthday and the kids loved it.


INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup butter, softened
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
2 (3.5 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
3 1/2 cups milk
1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
32 ounces chocolate sandwich cookies with creme filling

DIRECTIONS

Chop cookies very fine in food processor. The white cream will disappear.
Mix butter, cream cheese, and sugar in bowl.
In a large bowl mix milk, pudding and whipped topping together.
Combine pudding mixture and cream mixture together.
Layer in flower pot, starting with cookies then cream mixture. Repeat layers.
Chill until ready to serve.
Add artificial flower and trowel. Enjoy!


Ive done these too...

ICE CREAM COME TREATS

INGREDIENTS
1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
1 (16 ounce) package vanilla frosting
1 ounce colored candy sprinkles
Ice cream cones

DIRECTIONS

Prepare cake mix batter according to directions, or make any standard cake recipe batter (i.e. white, chocolate, etc.).
Place flat-bottomed ice cream cones in the cups of a regular muffin pan. Pour enough batter into each cone to fill from 1/2 to 2/3 full.
Bake at time and temperature as recommended for cupcakes. After they have cooled, frost with your favorite canned or home-prepared frosting recipe. Decorate with sprinkles or other decorations of your choice.

Answer 5

For Halloween, I decorated my office with the Harry Potter theme. I made sugar cookies and with the gel icing wrote spells on the cookies. For example: reparo, alohomora, etc. I got the list of spells from http://hparchive.tripod.com/spells.html

I hope this gives you ideas.

Answer 6

Time permitting make ice cream sundaes. Take the ice cream and scoop it into balls then refreeze them. Buy several toppings and divide them into plastic sandwich size bags. Into a decorated paper (lunch bag size) bag put an ice cream sundae cup, plastic spoon, napkin and the baggie of toppings into the bag and put each child's name on it. store the ice cream balls in the cooler until ready to serve. Let each child make their own sundaes and you or the teacher spray the whipped cream and chocolate sauce to their sundaes. mmmn, mmmn good!

Answer 7

See what they're studying at school at the time of his birthday.....if they're studying spiders, make spiders out of liquorice and marshmallows. If they're working on ocean life or dinosaurs, bring in little goodie bags with small plastic animals that you can find at the dollar store. It will blend in nice with what they're currently working on, and his teacher will think it's cool that you thought of that.

Answer 8

Make your cup cakes in ice cream cones! The kids will love them and won't make such a mess cause they can eat the container!

Answer 9

I don't know if this will be too juvenile or girly for him but I did Ice Cream Cone favors. I dipped the tops of ice cream cones in white chocolate and sprinkled with non-parels. I filled the cones with candy that my daughter likes and tied them inside those cellophane confection bags. It was a hit but she was half your sons age so...I dunno. But anyway, that's my idea! :)

Answer 10

BROWNIES WITH CREAM CHEESE SWIRL

For swirl
3 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tablespoon all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
For brownies
6 ounces sweet baking chocolate (such as Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate), chopped
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup chopped walnuts




Make swirl
Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly butter 8-inch square nonstick baking pan. Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and butter in medium bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar and beat until well blended. Beat in egg. Mix in flour and vanilla. Set mixture aside.
Make brownies
Stir baking chocolate and butter in heavy small saucepan over low heat until smooth. Cool slightly. Using electric mixer, beat sugar and eggs in large bowl until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Mix in flour, baking powder and salt. Mix in chocolate mixture and extracts. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.

Spread half of chocolate batter (about 1 1/4 cups) in prepared pan. Using rubber spatula, spread cream cheese mixture over chocolate batter. Spoon remaining chocolate batter over top of cream cheese mixture. Using tip of knife, gently swirl through batter, forming marble design. Bake brownies until tester inserted into center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, about 30 minutes. Cool brownies in pan on rack. Cut into squares.

Makes 16.