Cooking Party Ideas - Baking Birthday Party Theme

Wouldn't it be fun to have a party where you can make your own food?! Well, there is one theme that fits the bill perfectly - a cooking party.

Invitations

Make your cooking party invitations in a shape of an apron. Create apron template, and outline it on white construction paper. Attach or draw a twine for a "neck strap" and a "side string." Decorate invitations on one side, and write your party information on the other.

The invitation wording can start with "Chefs Wanted!" Then write "1 Cup Friendship, 1 Cup Fun, and a Pinch of Laughter! Mix it all together, and bring it to (name) cooking birthday party!"

As an alternative, write party information on regular invitation cards. Then attach them to large wooden spoons, and tie with a bow.

Remember to tell your guests to wear clothes that they don't mind getting a bit messy.

Decorations

Choose cooking party decorations in bright colors. Red and white colors work great.

Tie helium balloons to trees outside. Spread out more balloons in bunches around the house. (You can let go of helium balloons inside, so they fill the ceiling.)

Set up a large table (or several smaller tables) for the guests to work at. Cover the table with checkered tablecloth. If you like, write food recipes on butcher paper and hang them on the walls.

Favors

Recipe books, aprons, chef hats, wooden spoons, oven mitts and baking supplies make great favors for cooking theme party.

Cooking Party Games & Activities

Give aprons to the guests as they arrive to the party.

To make sure the party doesn't take a lot of time, split responsibilities among party goers. For example, one person could be in charge of chopping vegetables, another - making sure all proportions are met, someone else - mixing ingredients together, and so on.

Find recipes for foods you'll be making and write them on index cards for each guest.

*Super Soup: Choose a soup of your liking. At party time, get the guests to make it. This will be the first course of your meal.

*Lovely Lasagna: Creating lasagna might be a little tedious, but it's a lot of fun. Just remember to follow lasagna recipe to the tee. As a variation, you can make pizza.

*Sushi: If you think your guests would like to learn the art of Japanese cuisine and don't mind raw fish, then include making sushi in the activity list. (Find a simple sushi recipe online.)

Later, they can impress their friends and family members with their new cooking skill.

*Ice Cream Creations: Place bowls on the table with different kinds of ice cream toppings: M&Ms, jellybeans, chopped nuts, syrups, crushed chocolate bars, etc. Have various flavors of ice cream available.

Invite the party attendees to fill plates with ice cream and their favorite toppings.

*Photo Shoot: At the end of the party, take a group picture of the guests posing with food items they've created.

Food and Drink

Cooking Birthday Party Cake:

*Apron Cake: Make this dessert before the party, and serve it at the very end.

Bake a rectangular cake. Let it cool. To form an apron shape, cut away the upper corners. Frost the entire cake white.

Place red shoestring licorice at the top of the cake to make neck strap, and on the sides for apron strings. Decorate the cake using decorators' icing and writing tip.

As a variation, have this as an activity at your party. That way you guests can learn some baking skills as well.

Cooking Party Food Ideas:

After all, it's a cooking party, so there will be plenty of food for the party goers to eat after they finish cooking. But it's a good idea to serve some snacks before the guests start making food. That way their appetites stay in check during the cooking process.

Here is a list of simple items you can serve at the beginning of the party:

*Pizza
*Hot dogs
*Hamburgers
*Chips with dip
*Pretzels

Cooking Birthday Party Ideas