Adventure Time – Any Second Now

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen some prototypes of my attempt to create a themed mini-cupcake display for my niece’s Adventure Time birthday party (Mei-Lin is pictured above, dressed as Fionna the Human, which is Finn’s gender swapped version). After watching several episodes of Cupcake Wars and many trial mini-cupcakes later, I figured out how I wanted to set up the table and which characters I would feature. To make the process go by more quickly, I did use all Pillsbury products: boxed cake flavors in strawberry, yellow and chocolate with a vanilla cream frosting. I also used a mini-cupcake maker that was given to me by my mother-in-law. I liked using it because each batch only took 8 minutes to bake. The cupcakes cooled very quickly, and I was able to make 150 in a few hours. The next day, I executed my final designs and display, just a few hours before the party. I was very happy with the finished product, and received many compliments at Mei-Lin’s party. Next project: cupcakes from scratch!

These were the prototypes of the final product. Originally, I only chose four different cupcakes, but Mei-Lin added one more later.

Mei-Lin and Dominic, posing for pictures between batches of cupcakes.

The center display featuring store-bought figurines of Adventure Time characters: Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, The Ice King and LSP (Lumpy Space Princess).

There were five different characters represented in mini-cupcake form. These represent Finn (blue sprinkles) and Jake (yellow sprinkles).

Mei-Lin asked that these rainbow sprinkles be included to represent Lady Rainicorn.

Princess Bubblegum

Peppermint Butlers

The whole display, which included a map of the Land of Ooo, where all of the characters live. I adore the Adventure Time cartoon series and found all the information about the characters and the series itself on The Adventure Time Wiki.

(Photos 4 to 10 by Rholnna Jiao)

I know it’s a couple of weeks after the fact, but here are just a few images of our Halloween celebration this year. We went back to the Pumpkin Station at Plaza Bonita Mall on October 29th to use up the rest of the ride tickets (original post here). Dominic decided that he wanted to go down the Giant Slide rather than the smaller one he went down before. He did really well and had so much fun that he went back ten times. Conversely, he then went on a boat ride that started off fun, then quickly turned boring after the tenth go-around (I love the look on his face towards the end of the ride).

The next day, Dominic got the chance to gut his first pumpkin, with the help of daddy and cousin Mei-Lin. He was quite grossed out by the squishiness of the innards, but Mei-Lin had no problem with digging right in! Deon and I carved the pumpkin into its final Jack-O-Lantern state, and it turned out pretty well!

Also, as mentioned in a previous post, we went with the Batman theme for our Halloween costumes this year: I was Catwoman, Dominic was Batman and my husband was The Joker. I did my husband’s make-up, and he received tons of compliments at work and on Halloween. He also received requests for pictures from visiting trick-or-treaters! My sister and her family also came over for the trick-or-treat portion of the evening, and they dressed as Adventure Time characters. As predicted, the fun lasted as long as the candy supply. Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!