Munchkin Mommy

Hello y’all!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  Ours was a pretty laid back one.  Save for our usual Sunday ritual of going to church and lunching out afterwards, and the 3 hours we spent at the park on Sunday afternoon,  we just stayed home the entire weekend.  That’s something we very rarely do. ;)  I did let Abby have some fun in the kitchen on Saturday morning.  How?  I introduced her to cupcake decorating fun. :D

Decorating goodies isn’t entirely new to Abby.  In school, there have been several times when she and her classmates decorated sugar cookies with frosting and candy sprinkles.  At the cake show we attended on March 1st, she got to decorate a cupcake using a piping bag.  This was the result…

Not bad for a first time,  and by a 4-year old at that!  That’s my stagemommy self talking. ;)  I promised her then that I’ll let her decorate cupcakes again at home.  The time finally came last Saturday.  I jazzed up a cake mix a little and when the cupcakes were ready, I set aside 11 for Abby to “play with”.  I then filled a disposable pastry bag with a canned Pillsbury frosting and handed it to my eager student.

I gave Abby a hand in decorating two cupcakes, so I could show her how to properly hold the piping bag and how to squeeze it.  The rest of the cupcakes, she decorated on her own.

Abby decorated some of the cupcakes using the more conventional method of spreading the frosting using a spatula.

My only cause for stress was Abby being unable to resist licking the spatula and everything else where frosting happened to land (other than the cupcakes)…her fingers, the container of candy sprinkles, etc. :D

That’s why her cupcakes are for our family’s consumption only.  Hahaha!  No sharing with the neighbors this time. ;)  These, by the way, are the only two cupcakes I helped her with.  I held her hand while we squeezed frosting on them…

The canned frostings (Pillsbury, Betty Crocker and Duncan Hines) aren’t really ideal for (cup)cake decorating.  But since this was all done for fun and I was not about to make buttercream frosting from scratch, they just had to do. :)

Here’s a sample of one of her finished products…

Funny what a few colored sprinkles can do, don’t you think?  :)  Here’s the slideshow I made so we could remember that day  with special fondness…

I say these are the prettiest cupcakes I’ve ever laid eyes on! Taste good, too! :D

What’s that something special you did with your little one/s lately?  I bet you had a blast, too!

Have a great week y’all!  Cheers!