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How to Host a Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

December 7, 2018 by Julie

No soggy bottoms here, find out how to throw a Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party! It’s easy to make your GBBO Kids Party a Star Baker.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

My Littlest might not be a baker, but he sure does love to watch them. One of his favorite shows is the Great British Bake Off (sometimes called the Great British Baking Show in the US). He gets excited when Mel and Sue yell “ready, set, bake.” He loves Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry’s catch phrases, like no soggy bottoms and getting a nice even bake. And he knows that every episode ends with a Mel and Sue sandwich.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

When it came time to plan his birthday party, I knew he would love a Great British Bake Off birthday party. But how do you throw a kids GBBO party? Turns out, pretty easily! We had the Signature Bake, Technical Challenge, and Showstopper just like they do at the show. And we did it all in just a couple of hours.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

Signature Bake

For our Signature bake we picked the theme of Shortbread Cookies. The trick was, we didn’t bake any of the cookies. Instead we picked out three different boxes of cookies from the store: Irish shortbread cookies, Scottish shortbread cookies, and French shortbread cookies. We took the cookies out of the packaging and placed them on plates. Then the party guests got to try the different cookies and pick their favorites.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

The birthday boy may be holding the Irish shortbread cookie, but he picked the Scottish shortbread cookie as the best of the Signature bakes.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

Technical Challenge

In the show the technical challenge is where the contestants get a recipe, usually for something they have never made or heard of, and only part of the instructions. They often aren’t told how long or for what temperature things are to bake. Other directions might be missing as well. For a kids birthday party I knew things needed to be a little simpler.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

I picked up a Gingerbread cookie kit, one that would make several small houses, for our technical challenge. I took out all the supplies, but then hid the ‘directions’ from the party guests. Everyone grabbed various house pieces to try to assemble their gingerbread house in the allotted timed. Messy and fun!

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

Messy and fun! Plus it was something that everyone could help with.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

Showstopper

The final challenge in the GBBO tent is the Showstopper. On the show each episode takes place over a weekend. The Signature and Technical both take place on day 1 and day 2 is devoted entirely to the showstopper, often lasting 5 or so hours. Clearly, we didn’t want to take that long for a kids birthday party.

We divided the guests into two groups for the showstopper and each group made 1 cake. Each group got 1 box of cake mix (one group did a yellow cake and the other did a chocolate cake) and ingredients to make frosting. After the birthday boy yelled ‘Ready, Set, Bake’ each time got to dig around in the cupboards to pick out which cake pans and supplies they wanted to use.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

Then everyone mixed up their cake mix and got their cakes into the oven. Rather than sit and wait for cakes to bake, we actually did this bit out of order. We had everyone start their cakes first, and then we went back and did the Signature and Technical elements of the party while the cakes were baking.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

Once the cakes came out of the oven it was time to cool ever so slightly and then decorate. The yellow cake box team added sprinkles to their cake mix and then created a whole in the middle of the cake that the filled with rainbow candy. A fun surprise when you cut the cake open! If you watch GBBO then you know Paul and Mary do love a good hidden surprise in the cakes.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

The chocolate cake box team also hid some chocolate candies in their cake! And they repurposed one of the gingerbread houses from the technical challenge to adorn the top of the cake.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

Then the showstopper cakes doubled as birthday cakes for all the guests to eat! Everyone ate some cake as the birthday boy deliberated on who he should select as star baker.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

A winner was chosen and received this fun Champion certificate.

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

After some cake the birthday boy opened all of his Harry Potter themed presents. I think I might know what his birthday party theme will be next year!

Great British Bake Off Kids Birthday Party

Thinking about hosting your own Great British Bake Off Birthday Party? See how we hosted an adult version as well! Plus, see where you can print your own GBBO decorations and signs.

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Comments

  1. Robynn says

    December 22, 2018 at 8:28 am

    Oh Julie, I loved reading about his fun birthday party. I loved that darling picture of our Miss E who made a cameo appearance. What a darling party you and Kara threw. What a team! Thanks for sharing your fun ideas.

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