My son's first birthday party

I've been MIA for a few weeks as I was busy cooking and preparing for my son's first birthday party, and then my laptop went in for repairs.

My son's first birthday party was a few weeks ago and it was FULL ON.  I made pretty much everything from scratch!

I made chicken and veggie sausage rolls, bacon and leek mini quiches, spinach and fetta triangles, BBQ chicken tenderloins, cold meat platter, anti pasto, mini hot dogs (bought), and my mum bought mini lebanese pizzas!

Dessert was DELICIOUS.  The theme for the day was Nautical.

The cake - well I've developed a newfound respect for cake makers around the world!!! It was so hard - but I'm proud of myself given I've never worked with fondant before! AND I even made the cake topper myself, from polymer clay. It was a chocolate mud with chocolate ganache and blue fondant.

The cake was a little dry so I will use a different mud cake recipe next time I think.

Other desserts I made included Chocolate Butternut Fudge (from the Aldi cookbook!), Mars Bar Cars, red jelly for the kids, and a fruit platter.  My sister made Tiramisu, and my mother-in-law made home-made apply and custard pies as well as a lemon meringue pie.

I will post a few of the recipes I used over the next week.