Decorating

Let it snow!

Headed into a snow day—and another birthday for this not-as-little one—I’m thinking back to my son’s first birthday party.

I made gum paste snowflakes to adorn a frosty blue smash cake and cupcakes. I used two 5″ round pans, which I first got to make another smash cake and have served me well the past few years.

This was vanilla on vanilla, to please a wide range of palates (and a one-year-old).

We also had a hot chocolate bar with two sizes of marshmallows, crushed peppermints, toffee crunch, sprinkles, and plenty of Reddi-wip.

I think my guy liked it!

I loved the venue, Fig Tree in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which has unfortunately closed its space.

See more photos at party.walker-yung.com/onederland!

FNaF cupcakes, for one of my favorite 9-year-olds…

If the animatronics at Chuck E. Cheese gave you the creeps as a kid, you are not alone. Five Nights at Freddy’s is a video game in which such characters come to life and try to kill you. Sounds about right.

What surprised me about this scary game is that there is a cupcake! It belongs to a backup singer chicken named Chica. She wears a bib that say  “Let’s Eat!” How bad could she be? (Bad, huh?)

Because the cupcake in the game is brown with pink icing, I made chocolate cupcakes with strawberry icing. I used real candles with flames made from gum paste and added candy eyeballs. 

I’ve not seen or played this game–or heard of it before I got this request–so I relied on the good ol’ internet. As I saw many images of Chica’s Cupcake with a blue and white candle, that is what I used. The birthday boy later told me it was supposed to be yellow. Oh well… One party goer let me know that I got the cupcake “mostly right,” and I was happy with that!

Happy birthday to this guy! That makes nine cupcakes for nine years. Remember this?