{"id":1626,"date":"2017-06-23T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2017-10-08T23:05:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T23:05:54","slug":"flos-v8-cafe-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/flos-v8-cafe-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Flo’s V8 Cafe Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Celebrate Cars 3 by making your own V8 Cafe Dinner!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cars 3 is out in theaters now! I’ve read that the cars spend more time in Radiator Springs for this movie so I decided to use Flo’s V8 cafe as my inspiration for this dinner. Carsland in California Adventure is really cool, and my favorite part of the town is Flo’s. It has a really cute theme, and I love the neon sign outside and the colors inside the restaurant.<\/p>\n

The tables have a V8 logo pattern that I have used as inspiration for my table. These V8 logos are just cut out of pink construction paper.<\/p>\n

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Flo’s sells milkshakes with “road gravel” on the top of them. I used little white, milk, and dark chocolate crispy ball decorations for my “gravel”. You can get these in regular grocery stores in Australia. I think in Carsland they also use crushed up Oreos. Maybe that is meant to be crumbled road? They sell pink, chocolate, and vanilla shakes. This one is pink because I added blended frozen raspberries to it.<\/p>\n

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Flo’s also sells a vegetable bake with mashed potatoes and cheese on top. There is some cheese on the top of these, but it is white so you can’t see it that well.<\/p>\n

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I just made mashed potatoes and then put them on top of frozen vegetables with a little bit of salt and butter. I waited until the potatoes browned a bit and then added some cheese and put it back in the oven until it was melted.<\/p>\n

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Flo’s also sells pies. I think they call them ugly pies, maybe because they have kind of free formed edges and don’t look like the ones with smooth tops. I think they look cool though. The ones at Flo’s have a crumble crust on top. I used a little star cookie cutter to cut out these retro looking stars from the pie crust dough to put on top of my apples. When I make apple pie I use a few different types of apples that I have peeled and then cut into slices. I add some sugar, cinnamon, and ginger and stir the apples around until they are coated with the sugar and spices. Then I just add them to the pie. I use Martha Stewart’s pie crust recipe<\/a>, and I always use only butter. I have heard that it is easier to roll a crust made with Crisco replacing all or some of the butter in it, but I like the taste of an all butter crust better. Also, as a note for people in Australia, Crisco is really difficult to locate and it is very expensive. I just pat the pie crust into the bottom of my pie dishes instead of rolling it out. I rolled out a snake shape to put around the edge of this pie. This makes things go a lot quicker when you are making a pie. At my house, baked goods disappear in a matter of minutes, so I don’t like to spend a lot of time making them look perfect.<\/p>\n

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You may have noticed some little car charms on the table. They are from a key chain that I got from Carsland. Flo has a backstory about being in a singing group, The Motorama Girls. I assume they are from The Motor City (Detroit). I really like the style and color of these charms.<\/p>\n

\"Carsland_Keychain\"<\/p>\n

For more Pixar party ideas, take a look at my Pinterest board<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Cars 3 is out in theaters now! I’ve read that the cars spend more time in Radiator Springs for this movie so I decided to use Flo’s V8 cafe as my inspiration for this dinner. Carsland in California Adventure is really cool, and my favorite part of the town is Flo’s. It has a really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[70,5,10,69],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-party","tag-cars","tag-ice-cream","tag-party","tag-pixar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}