Kara's Cupcake 1st Birthday Party

This past weekend was Kara's cupcake themed birthday party. I had alot of fun gathering ideas for the theme but didn't find as much as I did for Nick's airplane or train parties. Cupcakes wasn't as easy to work with but I liked the idea for the first birthday.  The planning part is fun and then when it comes down to it, I want someone else to do it all.  I realized that I am not good at making cupcakes, overbaked them, never did a trial run and they were about a 2 out of 10.   I made two cupcake cakes and expected them to be kind of huge but they were pretty tiny and not to logical for cutting and serving. All in all, it turned out to be a fun day and Kara was adorable and had a blast and that is all that matters!

Here are some of the pictures.

month by month pictures

birthday sign

up close

Kara helping me bake on Friday

made 5 batches, 2 were tossed

cupcake cookie favors

happy girl pre-party

cupcake spread

Kara's cake

Kara had a peanut butter cake with peanut butter/yogurt icing. PB and yogurt are two of her favorite things. While Nick took a bite out of his cake last year, Kara took little pieces - very ladylike.

This was the other cupcake cake that people ate.

The room/decor

favor labels

favors

pics/decorations

decorations and first year collage

more decorations

family photo

I took some of the recipes from the cupcake project website but just forgot to turn on the timer (!!!) and failed at mini cupcakes because they were overcooked! Kara's cake was a version of Peanut Butter Fluff Donuts that I saw on Heather's blog. I thought they turned out good.  The cookies were sugar cookies with 10x icing. On Friday I was on a sugar high because I was taste testing everything and I felt GROSS!!  For food we had "hoagies" and chips, panzanella salad, fruit salad, veggies and dip and chips and salsa. It was a nice small crowd!