I make a lot of cupcakes.

But can I confess something to you?

When I’m working on fancy cupcakes like these…

I DO NOT LET MY KIDS HELP!

I know… I feel guilty about it. But… that’s just the way it has to be sometimes.

I’m feeling a lot less guilty since I did this…

Kid’s Cupcake Day!!!

I set up a table outside on the lawn.

I pulled out extra sprinkles I had in the cupboards, edible markers, mini marshmallows, mini M&Ms, and whatever else I could find that they would enjoy decorating with.

I baked 12 cupcakes and poured the rest of the batter out on a cookie sheet so they could use cookie cutters to make shaped mini cakes.

I used a box mix that I had sitting around.

They made the little cut out shapes and then ate them before I could catch any pictures of them. This is the only record I have of them making the mini cakes. They were a hit.

I also gave them three bags of frosting to decorate with… lemon, strawberry, and vanilla.

And this is how you leave a four year old and an eight year unattended while decorating cupcakes… you set them up at a table OUTSIDE, and you give them frosting bags tightly closed off with twisty ties.

If you don’t use the twisty ties, and you put bags of frosting into the hands of minors, all of the frosting ends up squirting out the back end of the bags. I promise. Please… for everyone’s sanity… use the twisty ties.

If you remember nothing else from this post… remember “outside” and remember “twisty ties.”

And then you just let them go for it.

No input from Mom needed. Not on this day. Not on these cupcakes.

This day was all about Mom and kids being stress free and having Fun.

Here are the cupcakes.

Here is the frosting.

Here are the sprinkles.

Create.

I’ll sit over here, enjoy the sun, drink my iced tea, and snap pictures.

No pointers.

No tips.

No comments from the peanut gallery.

Not today.

And it turned out to be a magical and marvelous day for all of us.

I’m definitely going to do this more often.

For me, it’s much easier to set them up to do their own cupcakes on a day when I can just sit back and enjoy the fun they’re having.

Things don’t go this delightfully on a day when I let them bake, but I also need to get something baked and decorated for an event. That is when catastrophe can happen.

Next time they CAN’T bake with me, I’ll promise them their own baking day soon.

But only if they say “Pretty please”…

With a cherry on top!

Hey!

Look!

There are some of those little mini cakes they cut out and decorated. Right there in the middle. They’re a bit hard to see, but that part was really fun for them! They loved using the cookie cutters and decorating the shapes.

So…

What kind of Summer Family Fun have you been having?

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I can’t wait to see what everyone’s been up to!

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