Aisling's Birthday Weekend

We trekked to KC for Labor Day weekend to see the family and celebrate Aisling's birthday with a bumblebee-themed party...a lot of work, but a lot of fun! My cake turned out ok after a long, torturous battle with frosting that melted, wouldn't turn the right color, and came out of a battery-powered cookie press looking like ass. Thankfully Rane saved the day and fixed my screw-ups, and everyone had a good time and some yummy cupcakes and hot dogs!

Happy Birthday, Aisling!

We celebrated with breakfast cupcakes, yum! Can't believe my baby is one year old already, it doesn't seem possible!

Making Aisling's Cupcakes

Chose a different (read: easier!) recipe than the TOHM one, since I knew I'd be baking/frosting after she went to bed tonight and needed something less time-intensive. They didn't get the nice round tops that I like, think I may have overstirred the batter a bit. But they smell delicious and I can't wait to taste them with the first lemon cream cheese frosting I've ever made. Now, do I wait till tomorrow for her birthday breakfast to break them out, or eat one (or maybe two) tonight?

Cupcakes for the Birthday Girl

I have decided to try a new cupcake recipe for Aisling's birthday on Thursday, since we're having her party on the weekend and will have the bee cake then, we need some kind of cake for her actual birthday! I'm thinking lemon...must search for recipes that only make 12 cupcakes or so, since we won't be able to eat a huge batch before we leave on Saturday (welll...I could eat a huge batch of cake but I shouldn't, haha). More to come...

Found a recipe: Lemon Curd Cupcakes, from TOHM Apr/May '07.