Princess is officially out of preschool for the summer. I’ll be glad to see her around the house more, but I also need to make sure she’s occupied. For her end of the year party, she begged me to make cupcakes. I do sort of have my hands full, but she only is in preschool once so I gladly whipped up two dozen.
I wanted them to be festive for her party. I stumbled upon this post of Shark and Beach Cupcakes from Martha Stewart. I thought they were super cute. Visit her page for specific instructions and to view my inspiration. I couldn’t find shark fins at the store, though, so I made mine simply sand and water cupcakes.
I promise these are easy enough for any baker. I’m not much of one, and I was able to whip them up in the middle of triplets. Make your cupcakes according to how you normally would- box mix, from scratch, etc. To create the sand effect, dip iced cupcakes into graham cracker crumbs. Use drink umbrellas as your beach umbrellas. I had to order mine from eBay.
Here are a few tips that I discovered to shorten my time in the kitchen even more:
- Pillsbury now has colored icing. One of the colors is a festive ocean blue. Use this as the water icing for that batch of cupcakes to save from having to dye your own.
- When Martha says to decorate the cupcakes right before serving, she’s serious. I dipped mine in the graham crackers the night before, and they lost some of the freshness overnight. The cupcakes were still good, just not as “fresh” sand looking.
Happy beach party!
Those look delicious and adorable!! Love them!
OMG those are so cute and they look absolutely yummy!!!
LOVE these cupcakes, how absolutely adorable!
Those are awesome!! My favorite, hands down, are the sandy cupcakes, yumms!
They taste yummy, too!
Those are super adorable! Love them! 🙂
This came at a perfect time! I’m currently planning an Ocean themed birthday party… Okay… well “Currently” means that it’s happening in three months, but I like to get my Pinterest trigger-finger warmed up!
Love them! (And pinning, of course)
What a fun birthday party idea! Thanks for commenting and pinning.
Hey! I would love to invite you over to guest post this post on my weekly series “Whip It Up Wednesday!” These fit the theme so well and are just perfect with summer just beginning! Please let me know if you are interested! You can email me at:
info.piggyinpolkadots@gmail.com
I also have a link party going on right now if you would like to link up!
http://www.piggyinpolkadots.com/2013/05/party-in-polka-dots-link-party-24.html
Thanks!!
Shelley
http://www.piggyinpolkadots.com
Thanks! I will check it out.
These look great!
I was thrilled to win the Giveaway that you had last week, thanks! =)
Wow, these are so fun! Thanks for the tip about not making them the night before ’cause I definitely would have made them ahead of time too! 🙂
These are so cute i need to try them at my next party!
These are great! I know that they will be a hit! Thanks for sharing with us this week at Monday Funday!
Take care,
Trish
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