Dino-Boy turns 3

          

      

My little guy turned three years old last week and we celebrated with a bang. In our house, everything is celebrated with good food, and champagne for the grown ups, and this was no different. 

On the menu for this afternoon-tea-time bash was a range of dinosaur themed snacks. "Sharp tooth" sandwiches (egg, and ham), t-Rex toenails (organic plain corn chips), home made flapjacks (gluten free), bliss balls (gluten free), my mother in law's yummy dips and vegetable crudités, and a ferocious fruit platter complete with rockmelon dinosaur head sculpture.

I made some jars with dinosaurs on top and filled them with good quality sweets. Whilst the kids at a three year old's party are old enough to know that lollies are a must-have, the jars were too small for little fingers so all junkie consumption had to be sanctioned by grown ups. I thought it was a good compromise. 

The cake was gluten free and organic, and I halved the sugar in the recipe (and used organic raw caster sugar) and 80% dark chocolate. I made a ganache with the same dark chocolate, proper cream and australian organic unsalted butter, and did ten layers in all. Phew. 

Happy birthday to my beautiful dino-boy, who brings us Tyrannosaurus Rex proportions of pleasure every day <3