Egyptian Party with Pyramid Birthday Cake

Egyptian Party with Giant Gingerbread Pyramid Cake for Kayden's 7th. April 2006.

Egyptian Pyramid Cake

All the kids decorated a gingerbread pyramid cake using candy and chocolate, although I stayed in charge of applying the royal frosting.

To Make The Giant Pyramid Cake

Bake gingerbread in 2 sheet pans, then cut into 4 equilateral triangles with 9.5" sides. Cut a paper pattern first.
Glue these gingerbread triangles onto a cardboard pyramid form with royal icing.
Set out trays of hard candy - jelly beans, mini M&Ms, bottle caps, Twizzler Pull-n-Peels, etc., and let the kids go to town on the cake!

Each child also had an individual pyramid case baked using steel pyramid pans. (Pans are available from http://cooksdream.com - The Ultimate Baker.)
Set the pyramid pans into small baking pans or glass Pyrex measuring cups to bake.
I put a prize into one cake by cutting out a small core from the bottom using a grapefruit/apple corer, inserting a blue M&M and then replacing the core and proceeding with frosting the cakes. (I tried baking the candy inside, but it just dropped to the point of the pyramid and was exposed.)
The child that picked the cake with the M&M received a prize.

Created a 7" mummy cookie cutter using tin and scissors. Cut out gingerbread mummies for the kids to decorate and eat when the party was just starting. Used the same candy as for giant pyramid.

My husband took 10' wood curtain rods and drilled a hole in each near the end, then tied together with rope. I sewed up 2 cotton drop cloths (9' x 12') into a cover, leaving one seam half open for an entrance.
Decorated entrance with blow-up palm trees.
The kids loved sleeping in the pyramid that night!

Created "clues" from clip art and hieroglyphs. Provided a Rosetta stone key that the kids used to decode the hieroglyphs to read the clue. I use clip art from the Microsoft Clip Art Gallery at http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us&cag=1.
Clip art pictures placed around the house that held clues on the back. Be sure to put out decoy pictures as well to mix things up.
Hide prizes for all the kids in the final location - we used the washing machine.

Started with a Hula Girl pinata and converted her using gold metallic tissue paper (available from www.nashvillewraps.com).
Downloaded photo of beaded necklace to cut out and decorate the pinata.

Used King Tut clip art and made copies of his beard for the kids to try to place in the correct spot. Poor Tut!!

Used gold and blue streamers, metallic gold table cloth with metallic blue cups and plates.
Covered chairs with blue and gold felt.
Decorated wall with turquoise and cream colored plastic table cloths and paper palm trees. Drew paper pyramids and used camel clip art for the finishing touches.
Mummy cookies laid out on stunning royal blue mosaic serving platter by Susan Walker.