{"id":21,"date":"2015-06-29T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-12-30T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:56:12","slug":"eight-is-great-fun-birthday-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Eight is Great! Fun Birthday Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Eight is Great! Marisa turned 8 years old! Woo Hoo!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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My Granddaughter Marisa’s birthday and baptism celebration! Eight is Great!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Marisa and I at her Baptism. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Dessert table at the luncheon party for Marisa Belle. I made a little heart Bundt cake just for her!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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I have a few of these pretty heart individual bundt cake pans. I made chocolate cupcakes and then used the bundt with the leftover batter. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Then I frosted them with cream cheese icing. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This is the recipe I use for any chocolate cakes I bake. It is from All Recipes.com. This recipe has cream cheese and a pudding mix in it and mini chocolate chips. It is dense, rich and wonderful with cream cheese icing. It also has 4500 reviews with almost 5 stars. That is a good recommendations people!
HERE is the link. <\/a> You will not find a better chocolate cake recipe. It uses a boxed mix. My favorite boxed mix is Betty Crocker Supermoist Chocolate Fudge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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My favorite boxed cake mix. I just doctor it up a little with sour cream and a pudding mix. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Cream Cheese Icing – I use a brick of cream cheese, a cube of butter, a few cups of powdered sugar and a little lemon juice for flavoring. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Cream Cheese Icing
1 cube butter (1\/2 cup)
1 brick of room temperature cream cheese
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 -3 cups of powdered sugar
milk to the desired consistency<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Eight is Great! And a birthday party is too! <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Little Miss Marisa is my sweet first grandchild. I love her so. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Birthday cupcakes made with homemade cream cheese icing, sprinkles and jelly beans, and little suckers as toppers. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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My friend Aimee Ferre made this cute flag and I bought it at one of her sweet boutiques.  I will use it when each of my grandkiddos turns eight! <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Eight is Great! It is a milestone birthday in the LDS church because it is the year you can get baptized too. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Tiff ser ed chicken salad sandwiches on pretzel rolls. They were SUPER YUMMY! I love those rolls. Get them at Costco. They are a little pricey though, I think they are around 6 bucks a package. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Gary baptized his little girl. It was very tender to see. I love all these peeps!<\/p>\n
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This is the first party Tiffany has had in her new home. It has the greatest kitchen with a huge marble island. I love it! <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Veggies and dip. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Fruit platter. Make some of that yummy marshmallow fluff dip to go with the fruit.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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I put little suckers into each of the cupcakes for the kiddos. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
I forgot to take pictures of Marisa opening gifts. But she got this really cute gift from my son and daughter-in-law Devin and Caitlin. It was a tiny tiny silver necklace that had an 8. I just LOVED it! How clever is that? I got her jewelry too; a pearl necklace and earrings. She got lots of cool loot. <\/div>\n

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I loved the entire day. Milestone Happy Days are so fun to spend with family. Yes they are. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Eight is Great! Marisa turned 8 years old! Woo Hoo! My Granddaughter Marisa’s birthday and baptism celebration! Eight is Great! Marisa and I at her Baptism.  Dessert table at the luncheon party for Marisa Belle. I made a little heart Bundt cake just for her! I have a few of these pretty heart individual bundt … Continue reading “Eight is Great! Fun Birthday Parties”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}