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Baby Boy Cake Batter Rainbow Sprinkle Birthday Party

Published: October 12, 2012 | Updated: November 13, 2019 | By Ashlee

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It’s easy to put together this cake and sprinkles party! All of the food (except the cake) uses dry cake mix for a great birthday cake flavor. And for a pop of color everything is covered with sprinkles!

this Cake mix and sprinkles first birthday party was a huge hit, and a colorful one

First birthday’s are so FUN! A mix of celebration and yet sadness too. Oh how much I love the first year. There is something so special about this first year of life.

All the growth and changes, all the the pleasure of bringing a new life into our family. Totally something to celebrate. And yet it goes so fast, too fast for me. My sweet baby is a walking, “talking”, dancing, TODDLER.

It’s definitely a year worth celebrating and celebrating big. And we did! I think Baby Boy loved the attention, a week of celebrating, starting with the cake smash and ending with two parties in a row! Thankfully he held off getting sick until after his birthday week! In the end I can’t believe my baby boy is 1!

I actually went through a few themes before setting on Cake Mix and Sprinkles. It was SUCH a fun party to put together and throw.  I’ll save those other themes for another party in the future!

Once I settled on Rainbow Sprinkles and started planning the food I quickly added Cake batter to the theme and it fell perfectly into place!

In fact there are about half a dozen recipes I planned on making and DIDN’T get to! I found cake batter recipes for cream cheese frosting, sugar cookies, blondies, a BAKED cheesecake, milkshakes, even pancakes (although I never considered adding pancakes to the party)!

A rainbow sprinkles first birthday party complete with recipes, favors and other sweet treats

A fun addition to the party was the pictures of the cake smash (from the week before- thank you again to my AMAZINGLY talented sister- Chelsea Peterson Photography) in the window frame.

Seriously, he rocked his photoshoot! It was ideally going to hang up behind the cake the whole time, but it ended up too heavy so we just sat it down on the table (better then smashing the cake, right?).

I always OVER plan for my parties. Not everything gets done (like EVER), but once the party starts you let it all go and have fun! I think that’s an important part of Event planning.

Enjoying the event itself. I enjoy every part of party planning. The planning, the work and especially the event itself. Whats the point of all the work if your going to be miserable, anxious and stressed the entire event??

This sprinkles cake set the stage for this cake mix and sprinkles birthday party

One of those things I didn’t get too was a few of the decorations, but it looked great anyway! I did end up updating my 30 image picture frame with pictures from his first year of life at the family party the next day, and

I’m enjoying looking at it in my office now! Everyone had a ball and the things that didn’t get done weren’t missed at all! In fact no one will ever know but me.

I had a few activities/crafts ready to go, but the weather was so beautiful, the kids were all getting along so well, we ended up just chatting, eating and relaxing!

It was a great party, I can’t imagine it going any better! I love just getting to sit, enjoy good company (great food) and relax, especially after 3 days of straight birthday party work (totally fun and totally worth it)!

how many cake mix and sprinkles recipes can you come up with? This first birthday party had over 12 recipes and fun decorations and favors

I went with clear glass for decorating rather than my usual white, simply because it was easier to see all the color with the clear plates. Then the BIG question these days: to label or not to label. HA!

I took pictures both ways. In the end I left them on the table because the fudge and marshmallows looked so much alike, and the truffles looked like cake pops! So I have labels if you want them. What do you think? too much, or necessary?

For the favors I shared all the recipes I used in a booklet along with a jar of sprinkles and a bag of cake mix! Kind of like a starter kit. I’ve shared all the recipes here on the blog too (see below for all the links). Some I got from other amazing bloggers (credit linked up), some were simple twists on my own recipes.

Sprinkles make an easy and beautiful brithday Cake

Baby Boy been my date to all the blogging conferences, parties, GNO’s all year, and even before (I went to a lot of events pregnant!). So we actually ended up inviting blogging friends to the first, BIG party, then we had a small family party a few days later (I made PLENTY of food for both parties)!

In addition to all the fun party food I also had “normal” food for lunch,.as much as I love cake mix and sprinkles I can’t eat an entire meal of it… OKAY, I totally can, but I didn’t want my guests to feel they had to!

It was really fun to watch Baby Boy interact with the other kids. He loves other babies, and it was fun watching him interact with a sweet little boy just a year older.

He’s at that adorable copy cat stage, and he was enthralled by his new friend and followed his lead everywhere, including sitting/laying/sharing/eating, doing everything his new “older” friend was doing! ADORABLE!

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  1. chelsea peterson

    October 12, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    Love it all. So glad I was there it was awesome. AND tasty too.

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    • Ashlee

      October 22, 2012 at 1:27 pm

      Thanks again for coming, taking pictures and being such a great sister and fun aunt!!! Love you!

  2. Lindsey from therhouse.com

    October 14, 2012 at 3:56 pm

    I could look at pictures of your parties all day long!

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    • Ashlee

      October 22, 2012 at 1:53 pm

      Thank you so much Lindsey!!! They are so so SO much fun to put together for my kiddo’s!

  3. Leanne

    October 14, 2012 at 10:08 pm

    Such a fun party! You always go all out!

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    • Ashlee

      October 22, 2012 at 1:55 pm

      I so love doing it, planning parties for my kids! I’m so glad you were able to come! It’s always wonderful to spend time with you sweetie!

  4. Paul Coughlin

    October 15, 2012 at 9:01 am

    Happy Birthday Little Buddy. Miss you. Paul

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    • Ashlee

      October 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm

      If only we lived closer! It would have been wonderful to have you at the party!!!

  5. Gretchen @ Three Little Monkeys Studio

    October 15, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    Hi! I saw your post on party people and just had to tell you how adorable this party is! So colorful and fun. Love your favor idea! Such a sweet party for a handsome little guy!

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    • Ashlee

      October 22, 2012 at 2:02 pm

      Thank you so so SO much!!! There is nothing better than throwing a party for my own children! I have so much fun doing it!

  6. Karyn - Pint Sized Baker

    October 16, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    I Love this entire party and I want the same thing for my 37th Birthday! M’kay? Got any left overs? Pinned!!

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    • Ashlee

      October 22, 2012 at 2:08 pm

      Thanks! I DID have quite a few leftovers, even after 2 full parties! Better to have too much than too little though, right??? It would totally be a fun adult party as well!

  7. Zoe

    February 20, 2014 at 11:49 pm

    Hi Ashlee! Im in LOVE with the Cake Batter Rainbow Sprinkle Birthday Party Theme!!! Its a BRILLIANT idea!! Simple,Fun & Creative!!! PLEASE do;!; keep up the good work!! 😉

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    • Ashlee

      April 14, 2014 at 10:59 pm

      awww thanks! it was SUCH a fun party to throw!

  8. Patti

    January 9, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    Is the recipe and directions for the number one on your blog?

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    • Ashlee

      February 5, 2016 at 9:57 pm

      the #1 from this cake http://ashleemarie.com/baby-boys-smash-cake/? I talk about how I did it in the post. I used a number 1 cookie cutter on fondant, painted it with vodka (clear vanilla works too) and covered it with sprinkles and let it dry overnight!

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