Cupcakes- Mickey birthday party

As you probablly know if you read this blog much that we are pretty immersed in Disney. We travel to WDW a couple times a year, we love Disney movies, pretty much anything Disney we like. My 4 year old wanted a Valentine Mickey birthday party this year (she was born on Valentine's day). These are the cupcakes I came up with this year! I thought that they turned out pretty cute so I wanted to share them. The Mickey ears I made out of dark chocolate by putting wax paper over a template I had printed from a disney font I use and then used a piping bag adn piped the chocolate onto to wax paper and put in the fridge to harden. The hearts are sugar cookies with a royal icing. I make some shape of these cookies every year for my daughters birthday parties it is a birthday tradition at our house. The polka dots are made from the same icing as on the sugar cookie they were piped onto wax paper and I let them harden for 2 days.


Here is a picture of one of the cupcakes I made for her birthday last year.  We did a mickey only theme last year so I did not have the pink incorporated.  This would be a good one to make if you had a little boy who wanted a Mickey Mouse party.  The star is a sugar cookie the same as the heart on the cupcake from this year except I used a mini cookie cutter and the Mickey ears on this on I used a Mickey craft punch and glued a toothpick between to punch out Mickey ears.  The polka dots are the royal icing again as on the sugar cookie This cupcake I would say is a bit simpler just because the Mickey ears are much less time intensive and the cookies are smaller so not as much icing to be done.

I think both cupcakes turned out very cute and were definitely a hit at the parties.  However if I had to choose a favorite it would be the valentine mickey one I really love how the heart cookie turned out and the chocolate mickey was just a fun extra touch.  My Daughter who is turning 7 in the spring has already asked to have a Minnie Mouse party so I have begun brainstorming her cupcakes and I am thinking red icing with white polka dots just like Minnie's dress.  I am excited about them I will definitely post pictures up here in April after the party!


Also if you want recipes for any of the parts just leave a comment and I will get them to you

Disney Deals

I have not done extensive research on the current deals but while I was looking through an e-mail from mouse savers it looks as if there are some deals out there for some date through out the summer.  If you are interested you should go check out mousesavers.com I will say this site is sometimes hard to navigate and figure out I am hoping to have time in the next day or two to look more closely at the deals and booking codes and get a post up here for you.

Just wanted to get the info as quickly as possible to you in case you did not want to wait on me......

Disney Birthday

There is nothing like having a birthday at Disney.  I spent my 30th birthday at Disney this past October and had a lot of fun.  It was also the first time my Husband and I had done Disney World together with out our kids.  I will touch on that aspect another day.  You will feel so extra special when you walk around the Disney parks and hear birthday wishes all day long.  Cupcakes, candles and singing at your dinners.

 I really enjoyed this trip, but did not realize I could go on a more exciting birthday trip to Disney until we took my youngest daughter who was turning 4 on a Disney Birthday trip.  She loved it!  She kept thanking us over and over for bring her to have a family birthday at Disney World (which is one of her very favorite places).  She loved wearing her birthday pin with her name on it and hearing everyone wish her happy birthday she was always surprised when they would say her name- it was so cute.

  We decided not to go on her actual birthday we took her the weekend before- we wanted the cheaper prices and less crowds.  Her birthday is on Valentines day which is Presidents Day weekend (one of the worse weekends to go to WDW- they say almost as bad as Christmas and New Years Day)  When making our dining reservations I treated the weekend as if the Sunday we were there was her birthday and booked a Princess Breakfast and dinner at Chef Mickey's (this would be my number one tip if planning a birthday at Disney especially for kids book Character meals for their birthday)  At the breakfast Mackenzie received a birthday card signed by all the princesses.  Then that night at dinner Mickey came out and helped "sing" a birthday song and was right there next to her after she blew out her candle.  Such a magical birthday experience.

I definitely recommend having a Disney birthday sometime!