Last weekend was my friend Amber's dog Pesto's Birthday and being the nerds that we are, we wanted to throw him a little Birthday Party! Also any excuse to get Pesto and Albie together because Albie loves Pesto and playing with friends and Pesto reluctantly loves Albie back. Amber and Pesto helped choose Albie when we were adopting him because they were our roommates!! Did I mention Pesto is a cutie pie who was turning 3???
So this was the plan of attack..........
- Make special doggie cakes
- Make doggie party hats
- light candles sing happy birthday
- take a million pictures
- let the pups pig out and play!
It worked out quite well! For the cake we used a version of this recipe totally easy, the dogs went nuts for it and the yummy PB smell (we let them lick the batter and spoons!) We didn't use an egg, we used Bob's red mill egg replacer instead and the honey can easily be omitted/replaced for vegans like me! I also have a great recipe in My Sweet Vegan that is basically the same but vegan! We popped them (we also made cupcakes instead of one big cake) in the oven and then started on making the puppy hats! I also found some great recipes here with cool frosting ideas if your feeling extra adventurous!
For the party hats I found this pattern and even though the design was cute we wanted to make our own so we used it as a template instead!
we printed out the regular sized party hat
then we cutout the template
and got ready to trace it onto a nice thick card stock
then we cutout the outline
Yay time to decorate!!!
we used stickers, glitter pens, wasabi tape, ribbon and little pom poms I had left over from another project!
After we were done decorating we made the cone shape and taped it on the inside with regular scotch tape. Then we cut little slits one on each side and thread the ribbon through taping on the inside to totally secure. For the pom poms we pulled the yarn strings at the top through the hole at the top of the hat and then taped those as well!
Pesto's hat
craft time!
SO CUTE!
Happy Birthday Pesto!!! (Albie's hat!)
Yeah we are GOOD! :)
Time to cool the cakes on a wire rack!
Get the pups ready! They were already tired from playing before it was even cake time haa haa!
um did you know I'm cute???
Seriously MOM i'm CUTE!!!
Birthday boy and mom!
mom please stop taking photos...
ADORBS!
GIVE US CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wait where did the cake go????
CAKE TIME!
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Pesto, wait he's eating his cake!
I can't see the cake!?!?
Finally CAKE!!!! OMG CAKE!
caaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkkeeeeeeeee!
So everyone had a blast!!!!! It was super easy, tons of fun and the pups were even more tired than us!!! I hope you enjoyed this puppy party diy as much as I did!! Super fun nerdy, crafty Sunday!
Oh and for kicks this pic of of Albie and Pesto, Albie's hat kept sliding down and with the flash and his light green eyes he looks like an evil villain!!!!
heee heee hee!
