Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s 30th birthday
It’s Buffy Summers’ birthday, yay! What, you don’t celebrate fictional characters birthdays? What’s wrong with you? Well the folks at Geek Girl Con do and they sponsored parties all across the country.
The L.A. party was held at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood – a huge, fantastic comic shop right in the heart of Sunset Blvd.
My geek-related food fests continue as I was asked to make cupcakes for the event, but can I ever stop there? This is me Ms. Over The Top, so I did an entire sweets table to go along with it for the event. After all it’s not every day your favorite Slayer turns 30.
I started by making Red Velvet cupcakes, which went along with the very black/red vampire decor we had going on. Plus they seem almost bloody when you eat them, in a good way. I’m sure it’s a Slayer’s favorite sweet.
I also made some Dark Chocolate cupcakes and turned them into ‘Back from the grave’ cupcakes. These were a hit, I mean baby doll arms reaching out of Oreo crumbs dirt like it’s going to kill you, how can you resist? They fit in perfectly with the Buffy theme and were chocolate-y delicious.
I filled a large apothecary jar with GIANT POCKY (yes there is such a thing) and labeled them as “Buffy’s chocolate covered stakes.” Who wouldn’t want an edible Mr. Pointy.
The more candy the better is my motto, so I filled a jar with little fizzy Japanese hard candies in cola and fruit flavors and labeled those “Slayer Sweets”.
Lastly, every party needs more chocolate. The third jar I filled with Hershey’s kisses, these special ones you can only get in Hawaii and they have a macadamia nut middle, thus: “Kisses…with a bite.” Ah vampire jokes, never…die.
There was Buffy trivia, a happy birthday song and a TON of Buffy fans. I hope all the Geek Girls across the country had great parties, Happy Birthday Buffy!
Special thanks to Meltdown Comics and Geek Girl Con!
Awesome! I haven’t gotten issue 40 yet – but its on its way to my house!
Wish I could’ve hit one of these parties.
You seriously do the FUNNEST things around! So awesome!
Oh man. I love it. I can’t believe I didn’t go! I submit as my excuse my extreme laziness.
This is pretty lame…
KIDDING!
‘Tis AWESOME!
Wow! Everything looks amazing! It sounds like it was a fun event, too.
When I lived in L.A., Meltdown was my local comic store. I love that place and miss it … so much that I still drop by when I’m in town.
Thanks for sharing your pics and recipes! 🙂
30???? Seriously? Oh man, I feel soooo old.
Jeeej Buffy is 30 🙂
I Loooooooveeeee Buffy 🙂
I almost couldn’t believe what I saw.
It looks super, can’t wait to eat cupcakes while seeing an old Buffy episode.
The colors looked so good! Love the paper wrappers and the arms were perrrrfect! Hope they loved it!
I wish people like you had cooking shows, then I would really start to enjoy it. ^^
loved: “I had a large apothecary jar that I filled with GIANT POCKY (yes there is such a thing, you can buy it online, even) and labeled, “Buffy’s chocolate covered ‘stakes’.†Get it? Get it? Ok, you got it.”
hahaha made me laugh so much.
Very cool!
Beautiful display! Is your recipe for Red Velvet on your website? I didn’t see it in your recipe index. Those are my dauter’s favorite cupcakes and I have been looking for a good recipe.