My niece is here spending the weekend, and in honour of her birthday, we are making a cupcake-cake. Which is basically a bunch of cupcakes stacked up high.
We baked and iced them today. I'm not a huge fan of chocolate cake, but my niece requested them, and I do believe this is one of the best chocolate cake recipes I've ever tasted.
its the Chocolate Malted Cupcake recipe from the Martha Stewart Cupcakes book.
Nice and chocolate-y, but not still kind of light somehow.
See that smile? That's how good they are.
We used another Martha Stewart hint and used cookies cutters as stencils for making the patterns with sprinkles. It was a lot of fun.
Tomorrow we'll stack them up on their little tower and take a picture of that too. And don't worry, I have lost of leftover icing for on my toast. Along with my green smoothie of course. Yes, I am a woman of contradictions.
Cupcakes are some of the most beautiful things on earth. You must see these: http://www.flickr.com/photos/obliviousfire/. She's amazing. Keep going through her pages and see the alice in wonderland ones! They rock!
Posted by: steph | 05/16/2010 at 07:39 AM
I love the pictures, and both she and I loved that you did this for her borthday! thanks so much for making it special for her. She was very excited and they turned out so pretty! You are a rock 'n roll great Auntie!!!!!
Thanks for helping out and sharing in her special day.
p.s. she has not stopped sharing loving stories of her little cousin, still the highlight of it all :)
Posted by: Cynthia | 05/17/2010 at 10:46 AM
It was so fun for me too. Plus she is such a good cousin to the Baby. HE is still talking about HER. Every now and then today he would ask for her, and look around, as if to say "she must be around here somewhere."
Posted by: finger thumb | 05/17/2010 at 09:08 PM