A kid needs 28 birthday cakes. One for the friends party, one for the family party, and 26 cupcakes for school.I was thinking of buying the cupcakes (tired, who cares), but Isabel wanted to bake them. She favors the Magnolia Bakery recipe which is reprinted here and which we have made 20 times and love. She was going to color the buttercream frosting pink, but I told her, it's your brother's birthday, any color but pink.
So she made. . .
Gay Pride cupcakes. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Such a hit they were at school that Owen traded the extras for action figure cards. He was very pleased with the exchange, but I've seen those cards and they were cut from the back of a cereal box. He totally got rooked.
Today he's going to learn to bathe chickens at 4H. Just thinking about that cracks me up.
My review of Nick Hornby's new novel is here.
