Beauty & the Beast Birthday Party

I've been meaning to write this post for two years now, but better late than never!

It seems like our second daughter is always lucky enough for her birthday to fall right around the time of a new hit Disney movie!  In 2017 it was the live action Beauty and the Beast.  We set to work gathering supplies and crafting!  

My grandmother's tea set, rose in a vase, homemade cupcakes, "grey stuff"

Gaston's tavern, Lumiere's goodies and baguettes from the baker

"West Wing" sign, more homemade cupcakes, birthday girl and her new b&b purse

table all set for our Guests!

Fancy up-do for the birthday girl.  

We pulled out our fanciest lace tablecloths, china dishes and tea set to set a table fit for the best guests.  We planned a menu carefully based on the animated Beauty and the Beast movie (since we were headed to see the live action movie during the party and hadn't seen it yet).   Gaston's Tavern served deviled eggs and Rootbeer.  The baker left a basket of mini baguettes too.  For Lumiere's plate of tasty snacks we made pickle rolls, mini pigs in a blanket and a variety of sandwiches cut into little squares.  For dessert the cupcakes were traditional vanilla and chocolate.  Chocolate cupcakes were decorated with buttercream frosting to look like Cogsworth and the vanilla cupcakes were topped with yellow buttercream and Wilton red roses bought from www.michaels.com.  


The Gray Stuff

Ingredients:

• 1 vanilla pudding mix
• 1 chocolate pudding mix
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 12 - 18 Oreo cookies
• 8 oz cool whip
• white round sprinkles

Instructions: 

Some of the ingredient measurements are approximate as colors vary and the goal is to end up with a gray colored concoction.  

Mix entire vanilla pudding package and 2-4 tablespoons chocolate pudding mix with milk.    Mix and refrigerate.  Crush Oreo cookies in food processor.  Add crushed Oreos cookies to pudding mixture.  Fold in Cool Whip to pudding mixture and refrigerate at least one hour.  

To serve, place half in piping bag with desired tip.  Place a dollop of Gray Stuff in each bowl, use piping bag to swirl additional Gray Stuff around dollop.  Top with white sprinkles. 

The Gray Stuff

 

I found some adorable printable Chip teacups at Brit+co.  There are also cupcake wraps, but we did not use those.  The Brit+co Beauty and the Beast party can be found here: https://www.brit.co/beauty-beast-dinner-party/

Free printables I created:

food labels printable jpg.  Click to enlarge, right click to save

food labels printable jpg.  Click to enlarge, right click to save

West Wing printable jpg.  Click to enlarge, right click to save