We celebrated Grace’s birthday party with a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory party, which was loads of fun, and also lots of fun to prepare for.

Wonka Bar invitations with Golden Tickets

A Willy Wonka cake (with special thanks to Charl for making the hat for us)

Time to sing and blow out the candles

Edible chocolate pot lolly topiaries

Which have sweets hidden under the edible chocolate soil

Making edible bracelets

Super concentration!

Square sweets that look round

Fruit tree

A jelly car, made from a mould that was used at my parties as a little boy

Oompa-loopma-lympics – Oompa loompa’s are short and love chocolate, so they had to run on their knees to fetch chocolate discs

Kate, the fastest thing on two knees!

Chocolate nests with chocolate ganache, edible soil, and orange zest

The Mike Teavee relay race – an egg and spoon race wearing zany glasses, with the egg and spoon being passed through a cardboard TV to the next person (and a huge thank you to Heather for making the awesome TV’s for us)