Well I'm back. My apologies for the delay; I've been finding it rather difficult to find a time to blog with working full time.
A couple weekends ago, I threw my cousin a State Fair Themed 18th Birthday. The State Fair is her favorite thing and it seemed only logical to kick off fair season (her birthday was the week before) with a little State Fair inspiration. The Texas State Fair is deemed the Fried Food Capital of Texas so I knew a majority of the food needed to be fried. We picked up most of the food pre-made, but I was determined to homemake the corn dogs. (They're her favorite food).
Frying 24 corn dogs wasn't very difficult, although it was slightly time consuming. My advice for any sort of frying is to be diligent with the temperature of the oil. Too hot and your oil will burn and your house will smell like a McDonald's. Too cold and your food will come out greasy and oily.
We kept the decorations fairly simple and went for a country, Texas theme.
*Sorry for all of the terrible quality photos. I left my real camera at home and had to rely on my iPhone for photos.
The party itself was a complete surprise and I really have to commend her friends on keeping the entire thing under wraps.
A couple weekends ago, I threw my cousin a State Fair Themed 18th Birthday. The State Fair is her favorite thing and it seemed only logical to kick off fair season (her birthday was the week before) with a little State Fair inspiration. The Texas State Fair is deemed the Fried Food Capital of Texas so I knew a majority of the food needed to be fried. We picked up most of the food pre-made, but I was determined to homemake the corn dogs. (They're her favorite food).
Frying 24 corn dogs wasn't very difficult, although it was slightly time consuming. My advice for any sort of frying is to be diligent with the temperature of the oil. Too hot and your oil will burn and your house will smell like a McDonald's. Too cold and your food will come out greasy and oily.
We kept the decorations fairly simple and went for a country, Texas theme.
*Sorry for all of the terrible quality photos. I left my real camera at home and had to rely on my iPhone for photos.
The party itself was a complete surprise and I really have to commend her friends on keeping the entire thing under wraps.
I made the banners by cutting bandanas in half and hot gluing them to jute. And yes, I burned the devil out of my fingers, twice.
Food included: fried corn dogs, "gas station" sandwiches (it's a family tradition), buffalo wings, fried jalapeño bottle caps, mac and cheese cakes, mozzarella sticks, and assorted popcorns.
Jason hand squeezed 20 lemons to make the lemonade (he's a keeper that one) and we enlisted one of Sarah's friends to make cake balls, in lieu of cake.
We had a made to order funnel cake station. I fried individual portions of funnel cakes for the kids and we had a variety of sweets to top them with. The empty bowl eventually had powdered sugar in it...after my Gram saved the day and made a last minute hail mary trip to the grocery store.
Little Dolce enjoying the party, by staying far away from everyone. (He's actually sitting on an outside table.)
Happy Birthday SK! Love you.
2 comments:
What a cute birthday theme! I love that you made homemade corndogs and that it was a total surprise. I bet she loved it!!
Thanks! It was pretty fun; gotta love an excuse to eat fried food!
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