HOT DOG PARTY

What a great way to celebrate my 17th birthday with a Posh Hot Dog party, local free range outdoor reared pork made in to pork and apple Happy Sausages, home made brioche Hot dog buns and for the fixings see my menu!

My Posh Hot Dog Menu

Me and mum learnt all about Hot Dog history, how the German immigrants in America served a sausage called a dachshund in a bun then a famous cartoonist for a paper drew a sketch of the hot dog and as the story goes he wasn’t sure how to spell dachshund so he drew the dachshund dog in a bun and Ta-Da the term hot dog was coined!  Also we learnt that 18th July is National Hot Dog Day too.

Menu

My Hot Dog history lesson continues as I learnt that each state has their own iconic Hot Dog Recipe so I put my favourite on my Posh Hot Dog party menu, the create your own fixings were fried onions, chilli beef, cheese, bacon, sauerkraut, jalapeños, dill pickles, raw onion, mayo, chipotle mayo, tomato ketchup, hot dog mustard and Coney Island Beavers Mustard.

My Bacon and stripes hot dog.

Menu selection, my favourite is the chilli dog and cheese, even better with mac n cheese!

Loving my hot dog stand, mum almost gave in a brought me a full on street hot dog selling cart ! 

Theses retro fun hot dog cartons were great on the day as lots of my teenage friends wanted to load up their dogs and go back in to the man cave for pool and gaming, so these were a cool container.

Awesome Corn Dogs

These are my favourite too sausage on a stick!  What’s not to love fabulous corn bread coated franks with a mustard dip!

FLORIDA GATORS BIRTHDAY CAKE

My 17th birthday Florida Gators cake was so awesome, I loved it.  My mum is not a baker and only makes one cake a year, my birthday cake!  Mum watched Buddy from cake boss on you tube to see how he made his 16ft life size alligator cake and followed his lead and made me the best most awesome Florida Gators Alligator Cake!

I had four cake flavours in my cake the head was coffee and walnut, the whole body chocolate fudge, half the tail was carrot cake and the rest was lemon drizzle, a flavour for everyone.

To make the alligator first draw your alligator body shape on your cake board, then place your cake circles or squares on the board, carve the cake to the shape drawn, cover with frosting, add the eyes, eyebrows and nose now.

Roll your icing out to your thickness then roll across a alligator skin impression mat, place on your alligator cake, repeat until covered, when covering the head you can mould the icing over the eyes and nose to create a more life like look.  Using a chopstick or special tool join up the alligator skin on the joins to hide the seam.  Using edible spray paint add some texture to the alligator.  Next make four legs by rolling a large ball of icing to a burrito shape, pinch out 4 claws and bend to look like a leg.

To make the spines roll out your icing about 2 inches thick, cut the icing to the shape of the tail and pinch up spines in three lines of spines and place on the tail, for the body you will need four lines of spines.

Roll out your t shirt icing and coping the picture place on the alligator with the name and number of the birthday boy or girl.