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Star Wars Birthday Party Ideas and a Wookie Cookie Recipe

10/5/2018

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I find it amazing that in 11 years of hosting kids birthday parties, this is the first time that we have done a Star Wars party.  We have been so busy, that we literally planned this party in less than a week. We decided it would be fun to show a Star Wars movie on the barn and planned the party around that. A quick email invite, late night on pinterest, amazon prime order and of course some effort and we had a party.  
Star Wars Birthday Party Ideas & a Wookie Cookie Recipe
Pool Noodle Light Sabers for Star Wars Party
These pool noodle light sabers were a huge hit and made great party favors.  In fact, our kids have been playing with them for days.  My husband made most of the light sabers for the party, but the kids have been making things all week with the extra supplies.  They even made an elaborate shield.  
Homemade Pool Noodle Light Sabers for a Star Wars birthday party
I bought the light saber supplies at Walmart.  All you need are pool noodles (which are unfortunately seasonal), duct tape, and electrical tape.  My husband got really creative and made all different kinds including a pair of numb chucks.  For most of the light sabers, he used a half length of pool noodle, but made some of different lengths too.  
Jabba the Hummus for a Star Wars party
I always make a meal for our parties, but don't usually make theme food.  This time I made some things with a Star Wars theme.  There were so many great ideas online and it was fun to bring the theme into the kitchen.  My husband formed this Jabba the hummus out of some store-bought hummus and peppers.  It was adorable and delicious too.  
Fresh-cut veggies for Jabba the Hummus
We served with fresh cut vegetables for something healthy since we had sugary cookies and cupcakes. Gotta have some balance or the kids will bounce off the walls, LOL.  I always make guacamole so I served some with chips.  I saw some creative Yodamoles online, but didn't try to sculpt a Yoda out my guacamole.  We can only do so much...
Star Wars Birthday Party Cheese Tie Fighters
I didn't get the best picture to represent what these are, but these are cheese and cracker tie-fighters. I used some port wine cheese spread to "glue" hexagon shaped crackers to small slices of cheese sticks to make the tie-fighters.  The only crackers I could find in this shape, were these small gluten free crackers which broke easily when handling, but they were delicious and a fun food for the party.  
Pork Carnitas
Pork carnitas has nothing to do with Star Wars, but it's one of our favorite meals and has become our party go-to main dish.  So we served our favorite pork carnitas.
Star Wars Cupcakes with Light Sabers
I wanted something really simple for the cake because with four kids I don't have time to do anything elaborate.  I bought yellow cupcake liners at Walmart, made simple cupcakes in vanilla, chocolate, and lemon from cake mixes, and frosted them in homemade buttercream frosting tinted black,  
Cupcakes with Light Sabers for Star Wars Birthday Parties
I ordered yellow star candies and light saber cupcake toppers on amazon.  Also, if using a cake mix, the Betty Crocker Original Recipe is my favorite, although it is getting harder to find in my local stores.  It is the old fashioned fewer ingredients version and tastes more like homemade.  I may have to order some to have on hand for cake emergencies, ha!  Although, from my link it looks like its $15.99 a box!  Yikes!  I will have to see if I can find a better source.  I used extra star candies as a decoration scattered on the black tablecloth on the food table.  

Wookie Cookies

I decided to make Wookie Cookies, but wanted to keep them pretty simple.  I used one of my favorite recipes adding cocoa powder to make them brown and eliminating the nuts and chocolate chips in the cookies.  I melted chocolate chips to make the bandoliers and used white chocolate chips to finish them.  I ran out of brown sugar so I used coconut sugar which works well too.  I used this recipe because we love them and because the coconut and oatmeal would give them a bumpy texture like hairy Chewbacca.  Wookie Cookies were a big hit at the party.
Wookie Cookies
I doubled this recipe for the party.  

Ingredients:


1 ¼ cups flour
½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. salt
1/4 cup cocoa powder

¾ cup (1 ½ sticks) butter softened
¾ cup packed brown sugar or coconut sugar
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 ½ tsp. vanilla extract
1 egg
2 Tbsp. milk
½ cup sweetened coconut flakes

1 cup  old fashioned oats
Chocolate chips (for melting)
Raisins (for the eyes)
White chocolate chips for the bandoliers


1.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

2.  Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder in a bowl.  Set aside.  

4.  Beat butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy.  Beat in egg.  Gradually beat in flour mixture and milk.  Stir in, oats, and coconut.  

5. Drop by rounded tablespoons on parchment lined baking sheets.  

6.  Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are crisp but centers are still soft.  Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; press raisins onto warm cookies for the eyes.  Remove to wire racks to cool completely.

7.  Melt chocolate chips in the microwave then pour melted chocolate into a plastic zipper seal bag.  Seal the bag and cut one corner so that the chocolate can pour out like from an icing bag.  Draw a bandolier in a diagonal line across the cookie with the melted chocolate.  Then place white chocolate chips on the melted chocolate to finish the bandolier.   


Makes 2-3 dozen cookies.
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1 Comment
Jennifer Wise link
11/12/2018 07:41:37 am

I did a Star Wars party a few years ago, and it was so much fun! I, too, did the pool noodle light sabers--they are awesome. It was fun to see what you did that I didn't do (which is most of it). The Jabba the Hut dip is hilarious--so cool!! I love the Wookie Cookies, too.
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