Firefighter Party goodies

• Use red and yellow sand pails decorated with stickers to hold chips, cutlery and napkins.
• Label your food with fire related names like Blazing Hotdogs, 2-Alarm Chili, Flaming Chicken Tenders, and Water-hose melon. Keep the seasonings mild for the children, though!
• Firefighter Cake - Here are three options for making a cake your child will love!
  1. Create a firefighter's helmet by baking a domed cake in an oven-proof bowl, and one round cake. Cut a crescent shape from the round cake to create the bill of the helmet (you won't need the rest of the round cake, so feel free to eat it as you decorate!); fit the crescent shape snuggly against the base of the domed cake. Next, cover both cakes with red frosting (i.e. white frosting with red food coloring in it). Then use gel food coloring in a dark color to create 3 crisscrossing lines across the top of the domed cake, to resemble the markings on a fire helmet. Affix a plastic fire chief badge to the front of the helmet, or draw the outline of a badge and use icing to write "Fire Chief" within it.
  2. You can turn a 9"x13" rectangle cake into a fire truck. First cover it with red frosting, and then draw the outline of a fire truck using dark icing. For wheels, place two chocolate cookies at the bottom of the cake.
• Flaming-Hot Drinks - For drinks, serve “fire soda.” Before the party, pour red juice or fruit punch into an ice cube tray and freeze it. At the party, serve your guests a clear lemon-lime soda, and let them drop in the red ice cubes. As the cubes melt, the red juice or fruit punch will dilute into the drinks and make them look and taste more interesting!

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