For the big birthday party, I decided to make cupcakes this year and be very suburban mom-ish. But cupcakes being all the rage, I opted to try and do something a tad more sophisticated than vanilla and chocolate. The first cupcake was a mint chocolate with vanilla icing, nothing too fancy there but still yummy. The other I had started googling for ideas and came across banana cupcakes. Perfect, Zara loves bananas. The recipe I ended up using even called for the bananas to get sliced up and caramelized with brown sugar before cooling and blending into the batter. Um, so like a bananas foster cupcakes, yes please! For these I also topped them with a nutella frosting, something else I'd never heard of before googling but figured that combo would be good. They definitely were good and it was worth the effort.
Being a 2-year old birthday, we needed an activity to keep said small children occupied. We ended up losing a few kids to illness, but still had a respectable little group for Zara to play with. Being a week before Halloween, I decided we'd stick with a Halloween theme this year (not to be repeated every year or Zara will start to dislike her own birthday). I couldn't find any undecorated trick or treat bags so I had to sew up some myself from felt. I made the bags in orange and then we cut out mouths and noses and eyes in black. The kids got to pick out their jack of lantern face and we glued them on. They came out pretty nice and now they all have pretty nifty bags for Monday.
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