That Cheap Chick: Dr. Who Party With Tardis Cake

My daughter celebrated her 14th birthday last week and over the weekend had a slumber party with 3 of her friends. She likes having a party with a small group because it’s a lot more intimate. This little group all have a similar interest: Dr. Who. Basically, the plan was to get together, giggle, watch the show, giggle, eat some junk food, giggle, hang out, and giggle. So, I am happy to say, it all went as planned!

This party was a little strange for me to plan because I have never watched Dr. Who. Also, since she is getting older, we didn’t do a whole lot of decorating. We did have some LED balloons just because they’re so cool. If you haven’t seen these, you can make your own or buy them already made and they glow in the dark. I just bought these at Walmart. Also, we had a couple of silver star streamers from the dollar store hanging from the ceiling.

Dr. Who Party Tardis Photo prop {Krafty Kat}

The main decoration and photo prop was the tardis. The tardis is the “time machine” which is basically a phone booth. She helped me make it from some of the extra foam board left over from my giant photobooth pictures. We cut out the shape and painted the board blue. Then we added a strip of black vinyl and she used a white paint marker to write out the words Police Box. We drew the window panes onto white paper and mod podged them on and used a sharpie for the rest of the doors and handles. After the party, she put the tardis up in her room.

The girls ate lots of chips, pizza, popcorn, cake, and ice cream. They. of course, washed it all down with Dr. Pepper. The tardis cake was a bit of a challenge. The original plan was to have the tardis standing up. I baked two cakes in loaf pans, cut off the tops so they would be flat and then cut the cake into squares and stacked them on top of eachother.

However, after I covered them in icing, they just toppled over and crumbled apart. BIG FAIL! So, then, I baked another cake, again in loaf pans and this time left it that way, other than cutting off the top. I covered the cake in moldable chocolate. The moldable chocolate was really easy to make. I melted a package of almond bark and stirred 1 cup of light corn syrup into it.

Almond Bark & Corn Syrup for Moldable Chocolate

I separated a bit out to use as white then added blue food coloring to the rest. Then, I should have left it to sit and cool on the counter in a ball BUT I watched a video on how to make it in which the guy rolled it between two sheets of wax paper and I thought that was how I was supposed to cool it. So, before I could roll it out, I had to peel it apart from the wax paper and it was sticking all to it. Can we say BIG FAIL??? Once it had cooled and I had rescued as much of it as I could from the wax paper, I rolled it out and tried to cut shapes from it. However, it wanted to stick to the counter too much. Another BIG FAIL! All I could do was to put a big blob on top of the cake and try to spread it and smooth it with a knife. It was ok but not working exactly as planned. I thought it would be like fondant. It was too late to try anything else though, and it did taste better than fondant. I made the windows from the white and since they were smaller, they were easier to work with. Then, I used black icing to outline the windows, the doors, etc. The cake didn't look anything like I had hoped but by this point, I just wanted it to be done. Anything that resembled a cake would have been just fine.

Anyway, everyone seemed to think the cake was cool and didn’t seem to mind when we cut into it and the chocolate was soooo thick that it was like rubber! Luckily, I had the other loaf, I mean, cake and added some plain frosting to it and they ate it. I am still fascinated with using the moldable chocolate so I will be trying it out again but probably not for a cake! ;)

The girls had a great time dressing up and doing each other’s makeup and all of that fun girly stuff. Although the cake didn’t go exactly as planned, no one seemed to mind and I am glad to have another kid’s birthday over for the year and only 3 more to go! Sigh.

I never did post last year's party so I need to share that with you soon. I only shared the recipe for her Brooklyn Blackout Cake. The party had a rockstar theme and was a lot of fun. I had at least a clue of what to do for it! :)

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