11th Birthday

Today was my daughter's 11th birthday. She is somewhere between child and teen - often dubbed "tweenies"!! So no more pony birthday cakes but not quite ready for the make up bag special made for her older step-sister last year! What to do...... 

Well chocolate cupcakes seemed like an ideal answer! Thankfully an invite to a friends house to play left me at home with the other two children to create the masterpiece of 36 chocolate cupcakes with chocolate butter-ice topping and shapes "iced" from melted chocolate. We loved creating the chocolate shapes for the tops and had a great time using our imagination to make things that represent her interests like musical notes, letters of her name and even a chocolate cupcake shape! I think the finished cupcake tower is pretty impressive and they tasted fantastic too!!