The title above is a desperate attempt at an old fashioned newspaper heading.
Are you noticing a theme here?
I’ll give you another hint…
Confused?
Perhaps I should explain….
So, my friend Kiki is obsessed with the 1992 Disney movie Newsies. And when I say obsessed, I mean obsessed. It’s one of the first things I ever knew about her. If she had her druthers, we would all be leaping around in woolen caps and argyle socks, singing the daily headlines and talking like a 13-year-old British-born Christian Bale attempting a Brooklyn accent (you need to see it, it’s sort of like The Fronz meets Dick VanDyke in Mary Poppins).
If you have never seen the movie, this might be very confusing to you. I understand. Really, I do. The truth is I have never watched the movie all the way through. It’s not that I haven’t tried, I have, I have, it’s just that I fall asleep half way through. This makes Kiki mad as a hornet. I don’t mind because she does the same thing with me and BBC’s 1995 Pride and Prejudice so we are square. Besides, Newsies is now a Broadway musical (supposed to be pretty good too) so I am going to wait to see it live before watching the movie again. Yeah, that’s it.
Last time she forced me to watch part of the movie, all I could think about was how much those leaping kids looked like cake toppers. So I made a mental note and boom, here we are, it’s Kiki’s birthday and my mental note paid off. So I went online and found some pictures of newsies on the interwebs, printed them out, taped them to pipe cleaners wrapped around fancy toothpicks and that was that.
Kiki doesn’t like much attention so she made me promise not to make her a birthday cake. So I didn’t. I made her peanut butter fudge bars instead. She likes them even better than cake. I think it’s because they make for cuter snacking.
OMG! You kill me. 1) MY birthday is December 17th and 2) I’m moving closer to you so we can be best friends because, like, you are AWESOME! 🙂
This is too awesome for words. I also love Newsies. I saw it on opening night when the movie came out. “Santa Fe” is one of my favorite musical theatre songs ever. But your creativity with these fudge bar toppers is the ultimate! Wow. (Umm, I’m also a Xanadu fan. My birthday is Oct. 5.)
Why am I not surprised by this! Ha. And I love Xanadu too. Hell, I like anything with Olivia Newton John. I hear the live show on roller skates is pretty nifty…hmmm….that sounds like a dessert waiting to happen 🙂
Girl, don’t even kid! Know whats weird — most of my dearest friend’s Bdays are clustered in the first week of September and mid-December. So I’m thinking this means our friendship is pretty much a given. So, are you are really moving to Chicagoland? I’ll FB you direct…
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My dork obsession is Being Human UK. Luckily, I have a friend who is similarly obsessed, and so, for John Mitchell’s birthday (July 28th! 1897 – he’s a vampire) we had a birthday party for him in an Irish bar. I made cupcakes filled with pureed cherry pie filling (like blood!) and little cake toppers of Mitchell’s head. They had sprinkles too.
My daughter is obsessed with Newsies as well, she made a trip to NY to see them on Broadway. (First time away from momma) Anyway, her birthday is coming up and I think I might try this idea for her cake. Thanks!! 🙂
Happy Birthday to your daughter!!!
Dear Peaches, you are a genius. Amen.
My daughter is 4 and has insisted on a Newsies theme- this is perfect- thanks!
well, i’m up at 1am trying to find silver fancy toothpicks. This post is GENIUS! thank you SOOOO much. can’t find the toothpicks, though. and they weren’t at my local craft store or target, either. any idea where to snag some? i have a week. 🙂 thanks!