1st Annual Cobbler Party! (Part 1)

It’s time for me to let out the big secret: our family hosted our 1^st Annual Cobbler Party this past weekend! We have been planning this almost since the time we moved to Texas. I was inspired by reading about a family who hosts an annual donut party. I wanted to do something similar, but I knew donuts would be a little too difficult for us. I racked my brain, and came up with cobbler!

Once we finally set a date for the party, we started to put together a guest list. Since we’ve only lived here 10 months, we decided to just invite everybody we knew. Turns out, that was a lot more people than we expected! We invited over 250 people! :-0 We had about 105 people RSVP, and we started to put together our party plans . . .

It required a good deal of planning! We began our shopping on Monday, and started baking on Thursday.

Photo Credit: Roma.

We made a total of 28 cobblers: 2 s’more, 3 hot fudge, 4.5 apple, 4 peach, 2 gluten-free peach, 2 blackberry, 2 blueberry, 2 raspberry, 0.5 blueberry/raspberry, 2 cherry, 1 gluten-free cherry, 2 strawberry, and 1 gluten-free strawberry!

Photo Credit: Roma.

While Mom and I worked in the kitchen, the kids worked indoors and out getting things cleaned up, out, and decorated! Apparently they took breaks to ride on the shop vac. J

Photo Credit: Roma.

They did an awesome job on our garage! A friend from my Dad’s work loaned us all these tables and chairs. Roma and Mom did an excellent job decorating them!

Photo Credit: Roma.

Inside we also had decorations and some fun things. We had a jar of our pecans and a jar of candy corn, and a basket for people to place their guesses of how many were in each. I also had a basket with cards for people to fill out for a scrapbook I’m putting together with pictures to display at next year’s cobbler party!

After many months of planning, and lots of hours of hands-on prep, the party day finally came! But you’ll have to read about that tomorrow. J