Happy 6th Birthday Cupcake #3! June 2010

Cupcake #3 wanted a pool party for her 6th birthday. We just have the inexpensive $19 Wal-Mart backyard pool and a slip-n-slide so we set them up in our backyard and the kids had a blast. It did help that our neighbors brought over another small inflatable pool so the kids could run around among the 3 choices. So I jumped on the Family Fun website once again and found this perfect ice cream cake for our pool party. This was an easy cake to make besides trying to keep the ice cream from melting everytime I pulled it out of the freezer to decorate for each step. Instead of vanilla ice cream like the recipe called for, I found birthday cake ice cream at the store and used this flavor. Instead of jaw breakers I used gumballs and I used life-saver chewy candy. When I was looking in the store to find something to use as rafts, Cupcake #1 suggested Laffy Taffy. Perfect! Cupcake #1 is so much like me in that she is creative also. So the Laffy Taffy was stretched out a little to resemble rafts and the I rolled one end over for the rafts' "pillow". Then I drew lines in the Laffy Taffy to resemble the seams in rafts. The plastic people are from a math manipulative set that I have. This was a quick cake to make and yummy!


Since we had a cake that was just solid ice cream, I made chocolate cupcakes too and decorated them with blue icing and pool decorations (Laffy Taffy rafts, chewy life-saver rafts, and gumball beach balls). Yummy!

Happy 10th Birthday Cupcake #1! May 2010

Since we had an ice cream theme party for Cupcake #1's 10th birthday, I thought this Family Fun inspired cake was the perfect design for her fun party. I made the white/tan chocolate shells from molds that I bought at a local craft store to decorate the cake. I crumbled up Nilla wafers and sprinkled the crumbs on the cake. Then I broke pieces of cinnamon graham crackers to put around the edges of the cake. The ice cream cones were pushed into the cake after I frosted it. Then I dipped the ends of the sugar cones into chocolate and rolled them in the Nilla wafer crumbs. I then turned the sugar cones upside down and they rested on the top of the other cones. This was a fun cake to make and decorate and it was yummy too! At this party, all the guests played "ice cream" themed games and made homemade ice cream in pint size ziplock bags and then decorated ice cream sundaes. FUN!