
We know we were a few days late as Fat Tuesday really marks the end of Mardi Gras but we really just wanted a good reason to get together with friends and have some fun.
I started preparing for the party by perusing pinterest. :) Of course. There are so many great ideas for everything there. Lot of great decorating and invitation ideas for parties.

I made an adorable wreath for the party with extra mardi gras beads we had. I got a few strands from the Dollar Tree also. The hardest part was probably cutting out the fleur-de-lis from foam board. Any suggestions on how to cut that stuff? I already had the wreath from a previous one I made and had most of the beads. The green were actually a long strand tha was used on a Christmas garland. The amount you'll need depends on how thick the beads are and how thick your wreath is. I just cut the fleur-de-lis from the foam board and painted it. The center is just gold glitter. My house looked like stripper visited. :)
For food we had craw fish that we picked up from our local Hy-Vee store. It was precooked and frozen so we just needed to heat it up. To do this I boiled a pot of water and stuck a few crawfish in at a time for about 3 minutes.
I made some Jambalaya type soup...Our friend told me he wouldn't call it Jambalaya but it was good. I used this recipe. I couldn't find banana pepers (or didn't look that hard) so I didn't use those but used a whole red and green pepper. I also used a sausage ring (near the ring of bologna in our store) instead of polish sausage. Honestly, I didn't even try any of it because I was so tired of food by the time the party came. I had been cooking all day and munching as I went!
I made crab dip from here. And also made some bbq beef from a crock pot recipe book I have. It was pretty good as well.
Beyond that, the most important part was the King Cake. :) I made a blueberry cake and a cherry cake. King cake is a sweet roll cake. Almost like a cinnamon roll in cake form. I used this recipe from The Food Network. I added pie filling with the cream cheese filling. To hid the baby, I did it after cooking because I didn't have a real King Cake baby, I turned the cake upside down and cut a small slit in the bottom. After flipping right-side up I couldn't even tell were it was. We made our own colored sugar because finding purple and yellow was difficult. I just took a half cup of sugar and slowly added a few drops of food coloring at a time while mixing very well. I think it might work well if you used superfine sugar rather than regular.
I also found a picture of super cute cookies and decided to try to copy them. I'm not the best at frosting but I really want to work out that this summer! I think they're still cute but the originals were way cuter, but I didn't have that much time to make them!

I think it was a successful party. Not as crazy as the real deal but it was a good start! :) Everyone came decked out in Purple and Green some with great hats and their own masks!
As always, Enjoy! Have a great day!
~H
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