Birthday Cake and Tutus

It was Miss 7's Birthday this week and I thought I'd share her cake and outfit.

Her cake was semi-homemade (by myself). I decided to go for a Giant Chocolate Cupcake and it turned out to be surprisingly easy. I cheated a bit and used a Betty Crocker cake mix. I bought two boxes of the "Devil's Food Cupcake Mix" but that wasn't enough and I had to run to the shop mid bake to buy a 3rd box, the Giant Cupcake tin was bigger than I thought!!! This mix only takes 15/16 minutes if you are making regular cupcakes but it took 50 mins to bake in the giant tin.
Once cooled I trimmed the tops so they would fit together well and sandwiched together with chocolate buttercream.
I then tried to pipe roses using the ribbon nozzle in my icing kit but it wasn't turning out like the cake I saw on Pinterest (did I really think it would???) so I ad-libbed and changed nozzle and just did my own unique design. I added some Maltesers, Dr Oetker's white chocolate hearts and some 100's and 1000's and I have to say I was very happy with the finished look.

The morning of her birthday I had her cake on the table with the candles lighting and presents and cards piled up waiting to be opened.

Her outfit for her party was a tutu dress she picked herself. She loved the colour (a dusky "ornate" pink). I decided to team this with baby blue and picked up the cardigan and shoes in H&M. It looked stunning and Miss 7 was very happy which was the most important thing.

Karen

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Little Chocolate Treats

Miss 7's (turning 7) birthday is this weekend and when it's your birthday at school you get to bring in little treats for your class pals. So tonight we made these really cute and very easy little chocolate treats. As food allergies are quiet common I find it easier to just work with chocolate when I'm sending treats to school.

I had these heart shaped moulds that I picked up super cheap in Euro Giant last Valentine's Day. We started by placing chocolate smarties into each mould and then melted a bar of milk chocolate and half a bar of white chocolate.

We added one tsp of milk chocolate and 1/2 tsp of white chocolate into each heart....and then came the fun part.....

......the swirling!!!. I gave the girls a cocktail stick each and they very slowly swirled the two chocolates together.

Disneyland Paris

We are back from an amazing 4 days in Disneyland Paris.

From the moment we arrived it felt like there was magic in the air. 

We stayed in the Hotel Sante Fe and it was perfect for our needs. We really only used it to shower and sleep. We left our room at 8am and we were not back until at least 10pm at night. The room was clean and comfortable and they staff were very friendly.....maybe if you plan to spend more time in your hotel you might want to choose one of the other ones as this one doesn't have a pool and it is basic but it had everything we needed and was only a 10 minute walk to the Disney Village.

We had so much fun and made some amazing memories. As you know our children are young so we didn't go on some of the "scary" rides! But there was still so many things for us to do and actually one of the best things was the whole family (including babyboy) could enjoy most of the attractions.

Our top 5 things to do (in no particular order)