No More Teacher's Dirty Looks

Last Day of School!!!!  I'm totally kidding with those exclamation points.  Mothers of preschoolers aren't super jazzed about the last day of school, though I get how that changes with homework and extra curricular activities.  

But I pretended to be excited and made a little something special for Baylor's 'sweet treat' obligation for his class party.

Is that so pin-worthy or what???  I'm feeling pretty smug about that photo.

I actually found the idea on Pinterest.  But in true Pinterest-Can-Be-So-Annoying fashion, the pic led to nowheresville.  It was just a picture and Tori Spelling said "Mmmmmm!" but no explanation of how to actually make them existed.  

My first instinct is always to wing it, but I really didn't feel like making 3 batches of these through trial and error, so I dug around a little bit on the interwebs and found some general ideas.  I don't know about you, but I think the best ideas for online recipes are found in the reviews/tips.  

Like, DUH, bake them upside down.  Would have never thought of that.

Could I have cropped out just the cupcakes so you didn't see a little boy's dirty crocs just millimeters away from food I was preparing for other people?  Sure, but I'm keeping it real.  Hey, at least it's not a cat.

Best tip ever?  After they're done, freeze them over night to make them easier to frost.  Genius!  Not only are fresh cupcakes nearly impossible to ice, I needed them at morning time and who wants to wake up at O' Dark Thirty to make these?  And even though we're dealing with 3 year olds who will eat 3 week old Doritos from under the couch (what?), they don't deserve stale treats.

Not the best idea?  Using red velvet cake mix with a 3 year old helper.  Live and learn.

So basically, follow your box instructions (you weren't seriously thinking I'd make them from scratch? for kids? No.), use cupcake wrappers, turn the cones upside down on top.

Bake.

Freeze.

Frost.

Sprinkle.

Done!

Don't forget your teacher gifts!  Again, I stole copied improved upon this idea from Pinterest. 

Darling beach mats from HomeGoods, some light celebrity gossip reading, sunblock and a gift certificate for a pedicure.  Can I have one?  Oh that's right, I couldn't teach kids for an hour much less a school year.

We love LOVED Baylor's teachers this year.  All you teachers out there....I have NO idea how you do it.  God love you!!!  You deserve millions more than Kobe Bryant.

Or whatever other basketball player who's currently cool and making way too much money.

3 years, 5 months, 1 day

I was telling Baylor about meeting up with a friend of mine who's an excellent graphic designer.  He is going to help do a little blog renovation (whoop!).  

Me: "Nelson is going to design some neat stuff on the computer for my blog.  I don't know how to do that kind of stuff."

Him: "That's really hard to do.  Even for a woman."