"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; 

we had longer ways to go. 

But no matter, the road is life."

-- Jack Kerouac

50th Surprise

We hosted a 50th surprise birthday party for a family friend and because the birthday boy enjoys my baking I decided to make a bunch of cupcakes.  I went with chocolate fudge and vanilla, and I made chocolate buttercream frosting and vanilla buttercream frosting.  From this I made four combos: chocolate with chocolate, chocolate with vanilla, vanilla with vanilla, and vanilla with chocolate.

The entire party seemed pleased with the cupcakes - even though there was a whole cake as well!

And I had fun arranging them!

What is your favourite kind of cupcake?  Are you a chocolate or a vanilla?  I would love to know!

Strawberry and Orange

Cupcakes!

Orange dyed and flavoured buttercream frosting

Pink dyed and strawberry flavoured buttercream frosting

All on top of rainbow bit boxed cupcakes 

(so... I cheated a little - I just really wanted to play with frosting colours and flavours!)