Zoe's birthday part 2 - cupcake decorating party

Zoe's mum had read my post about the last decorating party I'd done, and kept me in mind for her daughter's upcoming birthday.  I duly arrived at the house, having prepared my naked cupcakes and tons of icing and carrying lots of different sprinkles, nozzles, piping bags and so on.

And a more attractively arty one by a photographer who was at the party.  She took lots of great pics, thankfully.

Here we see the gang,  having coloured their icing as they chose, getting it into the icing bags.

And then get right on with the task of getting the icing onto the cupcakes, and the all important task of choosing which sprinkle to place where on each cupcake.

This lovely lady was really concentrating, and had some great ideas on how to do things - you could tell she'd had some practice.

 Even boys can enjoy the decorating side of things - with blue icing, naturally 

 Here's a collage of the finished products - they all had such fun!

And the girls all proudly displaying their skill, in take-home boxes to show their parents.

Now here's a photo from an angle that I simply couldn't take - it's me, wearing my attractively large white Becca Bakes tee-shirt.

 Thanks so much for inviting me to be a part of your birthday celebrations Zoe!!

 

Party entertainers are we

I had been approached before about offering cupcake decorating parties, but not really given it enough thought and it never worked out.  This time however, I gave it proper attention, worked out exactly what I would need to do to prepare and bring with me, and it was Game On!

The girls had no idea I was coming, so they were pleasantly surprised to disover what the party entertainment was.  They were 10 years old, or almost 10, so a good age to take in what I wanted to show them. 
I brought baked vanilla cupcakes for each child, plus spares on which to demostrate.  Plus a big bowl of fresh white vanilla buttercream, ready to be coloured.  I chose 5 colours for the icing and about a dozen different sprinkles of all sorts of shapes and colours, plus a small tub or two of non-toxic foodsafe glitter, just for fun.  Any more and I felt the girls would not be able to choose...

 The birthday girl trying out her first colour

 And her second.  Nicely done T!

A friend mastering the technique required to swirl her icing.

 The gang showing off their colourful handiwork - they did so well and we all enjoyed ourselves and had a lot of fun, parents included!!

 Boxed and ready to take home to show their families - well done girls and thank you so much for sharing your 10th birthday with me :)