Bella's beach cupcakes

Here is a picture of Bella's 5th birthday cupcakes.  The "sand", is very fine graham cracker crumbs.  Most recipes for similar cupcakes recommend using brown sugar or organic sugar but I thought they'd be too sweet. 

Aly's princess hat cupcakes

http://www.bhg.com/party/birthday/cake/birthday-cakes-and-cupcakes-for-girls/

To coat the cone in icing, I put it on the end of a butter knife so I wouldn't have to hold it. 

I did the ribbon, with airheads but they looked strange when I put them on because I used red, and it didn't go with the pastel colors very well. 

Instead of putting candies around the cone, I piped icing around the edge. 

Instead of candies on the cone, I used silver glittery sprinkles. 

The kids loved them!

St. Patrick's Day cupcakes

For St. Patrick's day, we made cupcakes in ice cream cones (with a mix) and then I made this buttercream icing:
http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/recipes.recipeListing/filter/dianas/recipeID/3315/Recipe.cfm

This was one of the easiest and yummiest buttercream icing recipes that I've tried.  I made it green and added Lucky Charms.

Bella wanted to be in the blog too ;-)