A few days after Thanksgiving, Wee One turned two! And he had an awesome Avengers birthday party. As moms are wont to, I went overboard. I got balloons and streamers and party games and masks and plates and cups and cupcake toppers and cupcake liners and tons and tons of crap we didn't need, and that Wee One probably didn't even see, but I got it. It's what moms do. Go with it.
So, this party idea all started when my mom, fondly known as Mimi to Wee One, got an Avengers cupcake kit from William Sonoma for like $3. The movie was just out, everyone was going Avenger crazy, so I figured I'd hop on the train and ride it all the way to Party City. Literally. They have things you didn't even know you wanted for an Avenger party. It was insane.
So, swag in hand, I began planning the party and the menu. I wanted cute. I wanted boyish, but cute.
This is what happened...
Menu:
Thor's Ham-mer Sanwiches
Hulk Smash Smoothies
Captain America Parfaits
Loki's Green Dip with veggies and Hawkeye's Arrows
Pepper Potts
Black Widow Cupcakes
Agent Coulson Cupcakes
and for the adults,
Tony Stark's Favorite Beverage (ie: WHISKEY!)
It was a lot of work putting it all together two days after Thanksgiving, but it was totally worth it. And it was delicious.
I found the recipe for the Ham-mer sandwiches online here, but tweaked it a little for kids' taste-buds as well as adults'. They went over AMAZINGLY. My father-in-law ate a whole tray. I kid you not. They were awesome.
For the smoothies, the night before, I tossed a bag of washed green grapes into the freezer. The day of, I got them out and threw them into the food processor along with 4 kiwi, a banana or two, two handfuls of spinach leaves, and I poured orange juice all over it. Blend it all up and you've got a green smoothie even kids will love. (Seriously, my nephew who eats nothing but pb&j's and chicken nuggest had 2 cups. Wee One had FOUR cups!)
The parfaits were super easy too. I got vanilla pudding mix and whipped it up, added the same amount of greek yogurt to it, then plopped it into clear cups and topped with frozen strawberries and blueberries. I could eat that all day every day, seriously. Y-U-M-M-Y!
For the green dip, I looked for recipes for Green Goddess dressing and realized AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FUH THAT! So, I took a shortcut since the basis of the recipe is Caesar dressing, and I used--you guess it!--Caesar dressing! I mixed 2 avocados, half a handful of fresh tarragon, half a handful of fresh parsley, a handful of fresh basil, and the juice of half a lemon into the dressing in the food processor, then dumped it into a bowl and served with sliced veggies. (Could have drank that shit straight. It was awesome.)
There wasn't anything special about the cupcakes. The Black Widow cupcakes were chocolate with peanut butter frosting and the Coulson cupcakes were pumpkin spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
It all turned out really cute and really delicious. Let's just say I'm glad that they only have birthdays once a year though...
