There’s no place like home. In the movie The Wizard of Oz a tornado comes and lifts Dorothy’s house and it lands on the Wicked Witch of the East. I thought it would be cool for the party guests to decorate and build houses made out of sugar cookies as they first arrived at the party.

It was a lot of fun decorating the houses but took a little longer than expected–so plan plenty of time for everyone to finish their creations. There are seven pieces to this cookie house: 2 long walls, 2 peaked walls, 2 roof pieces, and a door. There are also chimney pieces but I didn’t include those. You can find homemade gingerbread house patterns on the internet. I used an old family pattern. Royal icing works best as the glue and have several bags for the guests to share so there isn’t too much waiting. Set out plenty of candy in bowls too. I wrapped aluminum foil around cardboard circles for the finished houses to go on. And my crew assembled the houses after the frosting had a chance to set for a while and the girls were off doing another activity. Black and white legs made out of fondant were tucked underneath the house to make it look like it had fallen on the witch.

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Follow the yellow brick road. This Wizard of Oz party included enough time for a picnic lunch.

The birthday girl wanted to eat macaroni and cheese, jam sandwiches and fruit. So I incorporated it all by calling the mac & cheese “Yellow Brick Road,” the heart shaped jam sandwiches referenced the Tin Man trying to earn his heart, and then of course I included a platter of fruit. The girls also drank a yummy lemonade (recipe tomorrow).

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I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too. It was a toss up on what dessert to serve for this Wizard of Oz party. The party guests were already decorating candy houses and how much sweet stuff do kids need? But in the end we decided that we had to have both the Toto cookies and the Wicked Witch of the West cupcakes: one dessert to eat at the party and one to take home for later.

These darling Toto cookies were made by A Dozen Eggs. I love the detail on every single one.

These witch cupcakes were a pain, but a local bakery came through and did everything but the cone hats. I couldn’t find chocolate ice cream cones anywhere. So to improvise we dipped the regular sugar cones in chocolate. But they were very melty outside…

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Just a few more pics and some repeats of my favorites from the Wizard of Oz party.

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