I made the invitation and sent it out. Here it is:
My focus then became the cake and cake table. With the princess theme, Sofia decided on a castle cake. I searched out all the castle cakes I could find. Looking at different turrets on the castles I knew what didn't want. Nothing that would easily lean (so many of those in my search) and nothing with paper towel tubes. Trust me I am no expert, I don't get sharp corners but the kids love it when they see a cake that is out of the ordinary. I like the "wow" from the kids, it totally makes the hours of work worth it. I like to have a totally edible cake, so I decided on making the turrets out of Rice Krispies (RK). I was going to use a PVC pipe as a mold but being that it is not food safe, I canned that idea. Instead, I decided to use ICE drink bottles and Pringles cans. I sprayed the inside with Pam spray and compacted warm RK and added a skewer to the middle. When they were almost cool, I pulled out the RK and let them cool completely. The next step was to cover the RK with white chocolate and let cool. I was then able to smooth the chocolate out with my warm hands.
The cake took a while to put together and I had some great help. Besides Sofia wanting to help out every step of the way, I had my niece Denise and my friend Mel stay up with me until 3AM and only stopped because I stated I was going to bed. My sister Helena stepped in at about 1AM with her "helpful advise" and when I kiddingly told her to stop "criticizing", she said "I am not criticizing, I am just telling you what to do". Well we couldn't stop laughing. Helena always has the best intentions and she really knows how to jazz anything up, I love her dearly, thanks Helena for your thoughtful ideas LOL. 
I made the layers of vanilla cake a week before and froze them. I covered them in buttercream frosting and let it harden in the refrigerator overnight. I took out the cake and made the cut outs for the turret and again covered the whole cake with buttercream.
Sofia and Mel kneaded and rolled out fondant and we covered the whole cake and the RK turrets.
I didn't finish everything I wanted, the top of the cake was suppose to have another tower/turret, just a small one to finish the look but I was too tired and I didn't have enough time, so I used a glass carriage that Michelle had for the top of the cake. I think it looked great when it was finished. Sofia LOVED it and that is all that counts in my book. The kids at the party also love the cake and there were a lot of excitement over it.
This was the table set up with all the princess decorations, seat covers and all the sandwiches were cut using a crown shaped cookie cutter. We had pink lemonade in the tea pots and served it to all the girls their own tea cups.
The carriage in the background was painted by Sofia and I on a snow day. I went down to the fabric store and obtained all I needed. My idea was to have all the little girls peek their heads in for a photo. I am including a photo of each girls in their "thank you" cards.
Sofia walking in with Logan took my breath away and brought tears to my eyes, she was so happy and she is getting so big. Logan didn't want to do it, but for $25, he was willing to escort his sister down the red carpet and walk back to escort each girl down the red carpet.
I realized once the cake was on the table that I forgot to bring photos to cover up the photos on the wall. No one noticed but me but in everything I do, there is always something I forget no matter how organized I am.
We had several games throughout the party and after each game each girl received a royal prize. We had a total of 18 girls and my beautiful little girl was so happy and the smile on her face all day really was worth all the time it took to pull this party together.
The cake!! I was worried about it traveling. I have never traveled with a cake before and this cake had to go 6 miles away, up a hill. I was sure it was going to fall apart but it stayed together. The two skewers into the RK horizontally and vertically through the turrets helped it all to stay together.
Thanks for reading all about this great day. Have a great day. Hugs to all. Dee
The address of the place and my phone number was removed. I loved how it came out. My cricut was not happy cutting glitter paper, I needed to change the blade several times. Next time, I will have a few tricks up my sleeve for this type of cutting.
My focus then became the cake and cake table. With the princess theme, Sofia decided on a castle cake. I searched out all the castle cakes I could find. Looking at different turrets on the castles I knew what didn't want. Nothing that would easily lean (so many of those in my search) and nothing with paper towel tubes. Trust me I am no expert, I don't get sharp corners but the kids love it when they see a cake that is out of the ordinary. I like the "wow" from the kids, it totally makes the hours of work worth it. I like to have a totally edible cake, so I decided on making the turrets out of Rice Krispies (RK). I was going to use a PVC pipe as a mold but being that it is not food safe, I canned that idea. Instead, I decided to use ICE drink bottles and Pringles cans. I sprayed the inside with Pam spray and compacted warm RK and added a skewer to the middle. When they were almost cool, I pulled out the RK and let them cool completely. The next step was to cover the RK with white chocolate and let cool. I was then able to smooth the chocolate out with my warm hands.The cake took a while to put together and I had some great help. Besides Sofia wanting to help out every step of the way, I had my niece Denise and my friend Mel stay up with me until 3AM and only stopped because I stated I was going to bed. My sister Helena stepped in at about 1AM with her "helpful advise" and when I kiddingly told her to stop "criticizing", she said "I am not criticizing, I am just telling you what to do". Well we couldn't stop laughing. Helena always has the best intentions and she really knows how to jazz anything up, I love her dearly, thanks Helena for your thoughtful ideas LOL. I made the layers of vanilla cake a week before and froze them. I covered them in buttercream frosting and let it harden in the refrigerator overnight. I took out the cake and made the cut outs for the turret and again covered the whole cake with buttercream.
Sofia and Mel kneaded and rolled out fondant and we covered the whole cake and the RK turrets.
I didn't finish everything I wanted, the top of the cake was suppose to have another tower/turret, just a small one to finish the look but I was too tired and I didn't have enough time, so I used a glass carriage that Michelle had for the top of the cake. I think it looked great when it was finished. Sofia LOVED it and that is all that counts in my book. The kids at the party also love the cake and there were a lot of excitement over it.
This was the table set up with all the princess decorations, seat covers and all the sandwiches were cut using a crown shaped cookie cutter. We had pink lemonade in the tea pots and served it to all the girls their own tea cups.
The carriage in the background was painted by Sofia and I on a snow day. I went down to the fabric store and obtained all I needed. My idea was to have all the little girls peek their heads in for a photo. I am including a photo of each girls in their "thank you" cards.
Sofia walking in with Logan took my breath away and brought tears to my eyes, she was so happy and she is getting so big. Logan didn't want to do it, but for $25, he was willing to escort his sister down the red carpet and walk back to escort each girl down the red carpet.
I realized once the cake was on the table that I forgot to bring photos to cover up the photos on the wall. No one noticed but me but in everything I do, there is always something I forget no matter how organized I am.
We had several games throughout the party and after each game each girl received a royal prize. We had a total of 18 girls and my beautiful little girl was so happy and the smile on her face all day really was worth all the time it took to pull this party together.
The cake!! I was worried about it traveling. I have never traveled with a cake before and this cake had to go 6 miles away, up a hill. I was sure it was going to fall apart but it stayed together. The two skewers into the RK horizontally and vertically through the turrets helped it all to stay together. 
