Party Menu

Build a party menu based on Bob the Builder’s characters:

• Lofty's Grilled Tires: Burgers
• Muck's Mashed Potatoes
• Wendy's Bolts and Screws Salad — add raisins and nuts to the salad
• Roley's pasta — twist pasta to resemble screws.

Construction Worker Brown Bag Lunch. Prepare a brown bag lunch for each guest, just like real construction workers. One sandwich, bag of chips, apple and juice box makes a basic lunch. Use cookie cutters to turn the sandwiches into fun shapes.

Lofty Wheels. Split English muffins in half and arrange on a cookie sheet. Spread thin layer of baked beans on top of muffin halves. Sprinkle cheese on top of beans. Cut hot dogs into thirds then cut each length-wise into four strips. Arrange 6 hot dog strips for wheel spokes on top of each muffin. Bake at 375°F for 10-12 minutes, or until cheese melts.

Bob and Wendy's Tea and Biscuits. Serve tea and biscuits, just like Bob and Wendy do on the show.

Brownie Boulders. Prepare brownies according to recipe. Instead of cutting the brownies in equal rectangles, cut them in random messy shapes and serve them in the bed of a new toy dump truck, so the brownies look like boulders of dirt. Add-On: to add "grass" to the dirt brownie boulders, dye shaved coconut with green food coloring, then sprinkle on the brownie boulders.

Construction Crush. Combine 12 ounce can frozen juice concentrate, 3 cups nonfat milk, and 1 pint low-fat orange in a blender (you may have to halve ingredients to prevent blender from overflowing).

Bake a Construction Chocolate Cake.

• Prepare chocolate fudge cake according to recipe. Since this will be a double layer cake, you may need to use two recipes.
• Frost bottom cake layer with chocolate fudge frosting, then place the second layer on top. Frost the top and sides of cake.
• Lay chocolate-covered graham crackers across middle of cake to make a dirt road.
• Near one corner of the cake, carefully cut out a small construction pit from the cake and make a dirt pile of cake crumbs next to it.
• Place the dump truck toy near the pit.
• Fill the pit and Muck dump truck with brown chocolate shell candy with peanuts (boulders) and place candy corn (traffic cones) around the pit.
• On the opposite corner of the cake, attach pretzel logs together with frosting to form a square shape similar to the bottom of a log cabin.
• Place Dizzy cement mixer on the cake near the dirt road. Squeeze some white frosting onto the back of the cement mixer so it looks like cement is pouring out of the end of the cement truck and onto the dirt road.
• Roll the green gumdrops flat. Put a small sprinkle of cornstarch on them so they don't stick. With a cookie cutter, cut each piece into a circle. Put a dab of frosting on the ends of three pretzel logs and place the flattened gumdrops on top of the pretzels to make trees. Stick upright into cake.
• Place remaining chocolate shell candy with peanuts around the base of the cake to make a border.
• Top off the cake with construction zone candles.