Kids Birthday Themes: Preppy Tennis Star & Happy Feet

When I was little I remember I had so much fun coming up with my birthday theme every year. Of course since my birthday falls during the driest week of the year in Seattle, I always had DQ ice cream cakes for the most part. I remember one year I did a rainbow themed and had a pinata (sp?), of course again because it was so hot it would be a pool party with all my friends. 

Usually the theme was what ever I was currently obsessed with. And kids today haven't changed. I recently did cookies for 2 kiddos. One was having a Penguin themed birthday. I guessed that this was something they were learning about in school of maybe he really liked all the penguin cartoon movies that have come out recently like Happy Feet. The answer, was a little bit of both. 

March of the penguins

Mr. Popper's Penguin

Happy Feet

The next cookie design was for a preppy tennis star who just turned 7! Originally the design was to do tennis rackets, but unfortunately that cutter is hard to come by in a pinch. So we opted to do pink and green bright tennis balls. The cookies themselves are obviously a simple design so I knew I needed to spice these ones up a little bit....but how??

Sparkly Tennis Balls

The answer was GLITTER! Every girl loves glitter and kids love sprinkles! To make the 7 I used Wilton vanilla (white & green colored) melts. Which I have on had for cake pops from the Super Bowl. 

Pink Sparkly Tennis Balls

To create the 7, I just "flowed" the chocolate using a piping bag and a wilton chocolate piping set, and drizzled it on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper. I then sprinkled the pink and white disco dust over the sevens and popped them in the refrigerator for maybe 5 minutes it that. 

Green Sparkly 7 Tennis Balls

Once they were down I very carefully peeled them off and they popped off pretty easily in fact. I didn't even break 1! And then I gently placed them in the middle of the cookie and pressed down on it so it would sink into the frosting more.

Glitter Tennis Balls

The feedback I got from both moms was great and I am so happy the kiddos liked the cookies for their special day!