This one is a quickie post… just had to share these li’l bite-size cupcakes I made for my dear friend’s crazy cute two-year old’s birthday (last month, I’m a little behind). The party was a rainbow theme. Oh, I wish you were there to see the details, absolute adorable rainbowy goodness. And it was one of those classic kid birthday parties that I remember myself as a kid, on an unseasonably warm day in March, where the grown-ups yakked over wine and beer, lounging outside for hours, while kids ran around barefoot. Pinata, cake all over faces, spilled bubbles…

These are mini cupcakes–the best for kid’s parties, by the way, since they fit tiny hands and you get more bang for your buck from a batch to feed the masses. I swirled some white icing on top and cut out tiny, little “2″s from fondant with a tiny, little number cutter I had.

That’s it. So easy.

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I have no idea why I keep entering contests that I don’t have time to enter, but I just can’t resist. I had to enter the cupcake skewer contest over at Pizzazzerie. The contest, judged by Courtney Dial and the Pizzazzerie team as well as guest judge, bakerella (yes, bakerella), posed the simple challenge of making some creative cupcake skewers. We’ll find out in a few days who is the lucky winner.

As it’s nearing October and I’m already surrounded by Halloweeness and a 3-year old who keeps asking if it’d time for Halloweeen yet, I chose my theme easily. Check out the contest details and the fantastic prizes HERE.

how to make cupcake skewers
I won’t take the slightest bit of credit for these. Click the cupcake for the cupcake skewer how-tos at Pizzazzerie.

what I did to mine
ONE Paint stripes on the lollipop sticks with orange and black acrylic craft paint. TWO Add orange polka dot mini cupcake liners that I found at the craft store (after I baked them, so they weren’t greasy). THREE Tint the frosting lime green (Americolor soft gel paste, Electric Green) and pipe it with a frosting bag fitted with a star tip. FOUR Tint and roll out black fondant. I cut out tiny little shapes using the tiny little cutters from a Halloween linzer set I bought (more on that in another post). FIVE The orange polka dot ribbon (also from Michaels) holds the cupcake on the stick.

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