peacock cake!

This year Friday decided she wanted a Peacock Party for her 5th birthday. This is how that came about ...

A few months back -
Her: 'Mum, I want a Hello Kitty party for my birthday.'
Me: Silence

A few weeks later -
'Mum, I want a Fairy party for my birthday.'
Silence.

A few days later -
'Mum, I want a Peacock party for my birthday.'
Me: 'Great idea! We can use the beaded peacock on the patio for inspiration, and have blue, green and gold balloons, and feathers, and glitter and ... and ... and ...'

Manipulative? Me? Never.

We pretty much blew our glitter quota on the invitations, but we had peacock themed party favours ...

scented tea light candles wrapped up with an extra-long match and some chocolates ~ for a little bath time treat

... and peacock coloured decor.

I had SO much fun scouring Pinterest for peacock cake ideas, but the thought of all those colours got a little overwhelming - until I remembered how taken Friday had been with the white (albino) peacock we saw at the World of Birds last December.

And so, tah-daaaaa!

with a little blue surprise inside

'Cos I think I'm incapable of a plain coloured cake after last year's.

Again this was actually pretty easy ... I used the Barbie cake mould from my closest cake-hire store and, I confess, bought the heart-shaped cookies (baking them would've added another stage to the whole production which I didn't have time for). I piped the designs onto the biscuits with royal icing and added edible glitter for a sparkle.
Husband engineered the head - bamboo skewer, polystyrene egg shape, googly-eyes, pearl-headed pins and some feathers.

Success!

why why why wasn't this pic in focus??!

Happy peacock birthday Friday Five!