I have a thing for cupcakes.
I love them. In my opinion they are superior to cake in every way. There’s the variety of flavors and the cute little designs on top. I adore them.
So last year when planning Jack’s First Birthday I knew I wanted cupcakes. And I got these totally adorable Elmo and Cookie Monster cupcakes from our favorite bakery.
This year Jack is all about Mickey, so I knew I had to get Mickey cupcakes. I wanted them to be better than last years.
I was in over achieving mom mode. My son would have the best and most talked about cupcakes. I know it’s crazy but sometimes when your a mom you wonder down the crazy road. The one that tells you that your two year old cares what his cupcakes look like.
Since we moved I couldn’t use the bakery I used last year so I searched out the best Mickey cupcakes in town.
The lady at the bakery talked me into these beautiful sprinkle covered Mickey Mouse cupcakes. I was originally going to choose a different cupcake with red icing and a small Mickey face on top. But she warned me the red icing would stain the kids faces and that the black sprinkles were the way to go.
Yeah she was wrong, very, very wrong.
Not only did the cupcakes stain little faces, hands, and clothes.
They turned the kids poop bright play dough green.
Next year I’m going with a cake. Plain ol’ vanilla icing cake. Like the one I got for the family celebration on Sunday.
Lesson Learned.
Oh my gosh! Yes any artificial black color is bad!!!
As a daycare director I have had many Mondays where a toddler class was pooping dayglo colors after a Sunday birthday party!
I hope Jack had a Happy Birthday!
He had a great party and now I know about the artificial coloring.
Wow, I had no idea. (My three year old is super picky and only eats vanilla icing.) Thanks for the tip!
And happy birthday, Jack!
Obviously I didn't know either. You are lucky that he only likes vanilla.
Funny, I always stay away from dark icing when dealing with little kids, I always go for boring white on white, but then dress it up with Sprinkles.
See that is what I thought I was doing. The baker told me they were just sprinkles so it wouldn't be a mess. But when the sprinkles and the icing mixed the black of the sprinkles rubbed off on the icing and so on.
I love cupcakes as well, but can't buy anything with artificial colours because my son gets migraines from it.
I found a baking kit for red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing that has all natural colours and flavours.
I'll probably make my teenage daughter bake them for us 😉
That baking kit sounds excellent and like it's the way to go.
I saw the first picture and my immediate thought was, "The poop. The poop is going to be interesting."
Being a parent truly warps your mind.
LOL I love that that was your first thought.
It turned their poo green? HAHAHA…that had to have been interesting.
They do look scrumptious. I'd hit it.
It was interesting, and they were delicious.
Purple icing makes poop green, too! I think white frosting is the only way to not get stained/neon poop. But then, of course, you have designs on the white. You just can't win!
You really can't win.
My son has a birthday around Halloween. One year when he was really little I got him a creepy cake with lots of black icing. Yes. It stains hands, faces, poop. Never again. It was like licorice paint. And this brings back memories of my daughter at two. She was Minnie Mouse for Halloween and had a Minnie Mouse cake on her birthday.
Licorice paint is the best way to describe it. My son was Mickey mouse for Halloween.
Ha, yup, I also learned that colored icing makes the poop odd colors.
Isn't it amazing the things you would never know if you didn't have kids.
I had no idea that colored icing changes poop colors! If it makes you feel better, I made a rainbow cake for the last birthday. Six layers, each a different color. At least the poop was still normal. 🙂
That cake sounds cool!
Oh my! Boo to the new cake lady! I have a good friend who makes all my cakes. She has done some cute Mickey stuff with fondant,which the kids tend not to eat, so doesn't stain anything.
yeah I think fondant could be the way to go.
I just buy mine at the grocery store – this is an area where I don't try to overachieve – or achieve really – because I always fail. I am so picturing those black lips and green poops now 🙂
I'm fussy about cake so for special events I like to get a good one from a bakery but I felt like an under achiever for not baking one myself.
But he looks so happy about them… 😉
Cupcakes are THE best, except in black, I guess. lol.
Oh my word – black on cupcakes. Yeah, I'm sorry. But he looks very very happy. xoxo