Celebrate Going To School

Whether your kids are starting their first day of pre-school or are heading out to college, why not add to the excitement and have a Back To School Bash.

Invite friends and family, bring out the sprinklers, water slides and snow cone machine or whatever your kids love.  Enjoy some uninterrupted time with friends and family before everyone is back to school.   

Have a pot-luck party and why not make this great Pencil Cake I found at Family Fun:

Celebrate the new school year with this sharp-looking dessert, great for a classroom potluck or back-to-school social.

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
	8-inch square pan of brownies, uncut
	1 3/4 cups white frosting
	Yellow and pink food coloring
	1/4 cup chocolate frosting
	Sandwich bag

1. Turn the cooled pan of brownies upside down and tap on the bottom to remove the brownie square. Cut it as shown (A) and arrange the two largest pieces into a pencil shape (B).

2. Cover the pointed end with white frosting. Tint 1 cup of frosting yellow, then spread it over the middle of the cake.

3. Next, tint 1/2 cup pink for the eraser. Pipe on a chocolate frosting zigzag and pencil point using a sandwich bag with the corner snipped off.

4. For an added effect, set the pencil on a piece of foam core decorated to look like lined paper and pipe on a chocolate frosting message.

They also have have some other great ideas such as a Book Cupcake, Cyber Sweets Cupcake, or for the adventurous a School Bus Cake.