Trevor's 5th Birthday

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY TO TREVOR!
My Baby is not so much a baby anymore...being 5 and starting Kindergarten this week. Even though he Birthday is not until August 30, we had his party this weekend. And it was PERFECT. Great weather, great friends and family and a great time all the way around. This year our theme was a bit different - instead of just fire trucks, Trevor wanted police cars too!!! LOL. Makes my life pretty easy when he sticks to the same theme each year! And he did NOT want a cake. Only cupcakes. Even better since I didn't know how I was going to make a police car and fire truck cake.....To keep with the theme I decided to make miniature cookies to put on the cupcakes. Being my speciality that was the easiest way I could think of to incorporate our theme!

Below is Trevor sneaking a cookie Pre-party and who am I to say no on his Birthday party day?

Here is a platter of the finished product before Trevor blows out his candle.

We had yummy Oreo Cookie cupcakes with blue frosting. A police car cookie was put on top each one of these.
The Oreo cupcakes were the favorite and they were yummy. The recipe can be found here from Beantown Baker. Super easy to make and each one had an oreo cookie layer at the bottom.

When I asked Trevor what flavor of cupcake he wanted his request was for Root Beer. I found a Root Beer Float Cupcake Recipe on How Sweet it Is website. The funny thing about this- when we had cupcakes at his party Trevor didn't want ANY (I think he was just anxious to get to swimming). And then when we got home he requested an Oreo one for dessert!!! TREVOR - I made those for you! LOL


Cupcakes are harder for me to make than sugar cookies. I struggle with the icing portion of that but finally was able to master that on these I think.....I'm not too fond of that frosting anyway since being made out of Crisco it is such a MESS to clean up! Here are the finished product cupcakes with little fire hydrants and police cars on top. I had to order those little cutters specially for Trevor's party...but you didn't' really have to twist my arm! And those little cookies took much longer to make than I thought. Being so small and having lots of details took patience.
Here's a close up of the miniature cookies. I thought it was funny when Pat made the comment that the little cookies were soooo yummy...they were made with my same recipe as the big ones!
As favors to take home I made Big police cars and fire trucks to put in the kids goodie bags. They got one of each all bagged up and ready to eat. Plus lots of other police and fire things. It's good to have connections in those departments to get some free goodies for the kids!
The big fire trucks and police cars had a lot of detail on them too! And then of course I had to put a 5 on everything in honor of our 5th Birthday party!
While I was at it I thought I would make a few helmets and police badges too to have on a platter to serve. I definitely got into the theme this year with all my special treats!
Below is Trevor with his Oreo cupcake!

The Birthday Boy blowing out his Cupcake candle!

I don't have much going on after this so I can take a deep breath and maybe a break for awhile! It's been a super busy past few weeks baking. At one point I had absolutely NO room in our big deep freeze because I had so many cookies bagged up in there! But it has been fun to do all these for some great occasions!!

HAPPY BAKING.

Cooking with Trevor

So this blog is about my baking adventures, right? This is one that Trevor and I had this weekend!!! I thought I would share because we had a lot of fun.

Trevor wanted to cook something with me - mainly so he could do his favorite part - break the egg. I found a recipe online that makes only 2 cupcakes!!! PERFECT. A new blog that I found called How Sweet It Is. Her recipe is here. So as it was raining outside we got to work making our treats for the afternoon. Trevor helped me with it all - the breaking of the egg, measuring, mixing and decorating.


Our course waiting for our masterpiece to be done is always a bit challenging and we have to check and see how it's doing in the oven.


These are the finished products! Not bad and that's all we wanted to eat this afternoon anyway!

So let's get to decorating. I hadn't thrown out the icing I had been using this week so I had several colors already made up for Trevor to choose from. Of course it was very important to test each color to see how they tasted first.
And Mom's icing always turns Trevor's face a different color! The price we pay for good icing.


Trevor has never decorated his own treats. Boy did he have fun squeezing the icing bags just like Mom and putting on all the sprinkles himself.

Ta-Da! Our work is done. By the time he was done there was icing all over his pants, face, hands, countertops. What a mess but it was well worth it. He had a blast doing it.

They are very pretty, don't you think? I had a few other colors but Trevor just wanted to eat those and not decorate with them.

The cupcakes were quite YUMMY!!!

This was something fun to do in the afternoon that didn't take very long. I'm sure we will try it again sometime!

Happy Baking!