I received the Fairy Tale cocktail recipe book free of charge to review for the blog. All opinions are my own and 100% honest.
I love throwing parties. I especially love planning a party with a good theme. So when I decided to throw a Disney cocktail party I was especially excited to use the Fairy Tale cocktail recipe book from Cocktails by Cody! I’ve long seen his drinks on Pinterest and facebook, but I was never sure how to make them. Now that he released a recipe book I was super excited to try my hand at some of them!
The Drinks
Sleep Cycle
The fairy tale inspired drinks from Cocktails by Cody were definitely the highlight of the party. I decided to choose 6 of them to serve. We had:
- The Lost Boy (midori, sprite, Malibu)
- Sleep Cycle (hypontiq, kinky, mango vodka)
- Burly and Brawny (whiskey, amaretto, black cherry cola)
- Fairy Drunk Mother (sprite, orange juice, kinky, raspberry vodka)
- Fair Maiden (orange juice, pineapple juice, blue curacao)
- Diamond Dwarf (orange vodka and grenadine)
The Lost Boy
From speaking with the guests, the overwhelming favorite seemed to be the Lost Boy. They enjoyed both the sweetness of this drink and the fun appearance and color of it. The other one mentioned as a favorite was the Fair Maiden. This tasted good but I had a lot of trouble with the layering on this one! It was okay, people enjoyed the taste, but it turned out more of a teal/green instead of the pretty yellow and blue it was supposed to be.
Those who favored a less sweet drink tended to lean toward the Fairy Drunk Mother (that was my personal favorite!). It still had a hint of sweetness but wasn’t overpowering. I thought the combination of flavors was really good and unlike anything I’d had before.
Fairy Drunk Mother
Sleep Cycle was gorgeous, and tasted good too. I actually mastered the layering on this one! I also included the Burly and Brawny to have more of a manly option.
The diamond dwarf was probably the least favorite (though none of them were bad!). It was very sweet as a shot by itself. It is suggested in the book to add it to the fair maiden, but people enjoyed that drink a lot by itself and didn’t need or want to combine the two. All of the drinks created by Cocktails by Cody were great, at least from the ones we tried!
The Food
I asked everyone to bring some snacks (and bonus points if it was Disney themed!). We got some great Disney themed party foods! I made Mickey cupcakes – they were just red velvet cupcakes but I put Oreos on top for the ears. Other Disney themed treats that people brought included Up themed cupcakes, dinosaur shaped soft pretzels, Snow White’s apple pastries, melted Olaf (a snack of marshmallows, pretzels, and chocolate chips), and even Disney Princess fruit snacks!
The Entertainment
I always like to provide a little something to do at parties so it’s not all just standing around drinking or feeling like you have to talk awkwardly if you don’t know everyone. So I had a couple of things set up. I had Disney music playing in the background. Around the tables I spread Disney conversation starters. These were questions like “Which Disney character do you think you are most like?” and “What’s your favorite Disney World attraction?” It got people talking and got some good discussion going!
There were also a few games. One was a Disney Quotes game that I got from this blog with free printables – it listed the quote and everyone had to try and guess which movie it was from. I also set up Disney Scene It and some people played that. And although it wasn’t planned, at the end of the night a group of us ended up watching some old episodes of the original Muppet Show!
Finally, I got a download printable from Etsy of some Disney photo booth props. These made for some fun photos to take! These ones in particular were from the shop Little Forests. I got the download immediately and was able to print them and cut them out!
Disney Bounding
After a couple of people asked me what to wear, I suggested the idea of Disney Bounding. If you’re not familiar, it’s wearing everyday clothes that represent a Disney character, usually in the colors that you’re wearing. Most people participated and some really got into it! It was fun looking at everyone’s clothing and trying to guess which character they were. I might put up another blog post just featuring all of the outfits because they were really fun.
Everyone seemed to have a great time. Even some of my friends who aren’t huge Disney fans got into the themeing and enjoyed it. There were a lot of questions about if we could do another one and explore more of the drinks in the recipe book. I would love to!
Are you interested in trying any of these Disney themed cocktails from the Fairy Tale Cocktails book?
AW! Those Mickey Mouse cupcakes are seriously adorable!
Thank you! I was worried the Oreos would be too big and fall over but they ended up working!
This is SO FUN!! I want to come to one of your parties! Haha!!
Haha I love planning themed parties!
Love the mickey mouse cupcakes! All those drinks look awesome too! Great post 🙂
Thanks so much Cara!
what a cute idea! The cupcakes are so great!
Karin | truncationblog.com
Thanks so much, Karin!
Adorable! Hey I leave in a week and am wondering if you know the best sushi near the park?
I really enjoyed the sushi at Tokyo Dining (though it’s in Epcot so you’d need park admission). Splitsville over at Disney Springs has great sushi too – it’s a bowling alley but you can go in and request just to get food. And over at Universal’s CityWalk they have Cowfish – it’s a burger/sushi fusion place and they have some great sushi! Really unique options too, I can’t wait to go back there!
All of these drinks look too good to even drink!!! I will have to look into making some of them soon.
We were all saying that the Sleep Cycle would probably have tasted even better mixed up but it was too pretty to mess with!
Love it! Especially how the Sleep Cycle looks in those glasses you have!
Thanks! I was so happy with how that one turned out!
This is such a cute idea! I love how creative each title is and they all look stunning! I thin I would go for the Burly and Brawny because black cherry cola sounds right up my alley!
The recipes in this book were awesome! I like black cherry cola too, so that was a good one. All of the drinks were quite good honestly!
Those are really fun drink ideas!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com
They are very fun and creative drinks!
I love this! I’m especially a fan of any drinks that show off their colors. 😉 And who doesn’t love Disney 😀
I agree – colorful drinks are the best!
I’ve got a few friends that I know will LOVE these ideas 😀 Will share!
I’m so glad! I hope your friends love them!
Love it! One of our wedding showers was Mickey and Minnie themed and my mom made similar looking cupcakes, and for my bachelorette party my bestie had us all Disneybound. This looks like a really fun party!
That sounds like an awesome wedding shower! And I love the idea of Disney Bounding at a bachelorette party!
Oh my gosh this would be so much fun! I’m Disney obsessed! 🙂
It really was a blast!
I love that you included drinks! 🙂
The drinks were super popular!
What a cute idea! This would be so much fun! Everyone has a Disney side! Great post, thank you.
You’re right Jenn, we all have a Disney Side! I was excited to see it come out of so many people this night 😉
Fairytale cocktail book!!?! That is such a great idea, I need to pick me up one of those. I love the fairy drunk mother drink hahaha, so good.
It’s an amazing book – so many good recipes! I definitely recommend buying a copy!
How fun, and super creative! I think the Fairy Drunk Mother would be my fave 🙂 Love it!
It was delicious! I might have to make it again for myself sometime 😉
Do you have a cocktail inspired by Beauty & the Beast?
There are actually two Beauty and the Beast themed cocktails in the book – one is Belle inspired, and the other is a Gaston cocktail called Burly and Brawny.
This looks like so much fun! What a great idea for a party!
It was tons of fun, I hope to do another one at some point!
What a fun party, and those cupcakes are adorable!
Thank you, we had a blast!
So cute!!!
Thank you Kara!
Hi, i know you posted this a long time ago. I saw it looking for ideas for my 28 birthday. I just love this. i just want to ask about the preparation. Did you prepare the cocktails before? How many did you make per guest? And do you maybe have a idea how to do this without it costing you to much? Thank you.