Surprise Birthday Cupcakes

Today was my sister-in-law Lauren's birthday, and my brother wanted to surprise her and her third graders after lunch with a mini birthday party. He pretty much told me I had free range on decorating the cupcakes, and since I haven't really done anything creative in the kitchen lately, I decided to make some little mini flags to go on top of them. Not incredibly creative, but I had fun making them!

I just used some toothpicks, a hot glue gun, scrapbook paper, and scissors to make the little flags that I used as toppers for each cupcake. I had some leftover scrapbook paper from when I made bookmarks for the class I taught in last semester, and so I used some of that in two different patterns that used the same color palette.

For the cupcakes, I just made plain vanilla, and topped it with some pink cream cheese frosting! And a ton of gold sprinkles. Honestly, you can never have enough sprinkles.

I overheard one of the little girls in Lauren's class say, "I wish I could have a cupcake that tasted like this every day!" Me too, honey. Me too. I'll stick to my healthy snacks for now, but there are a few of these leftover.....

Happy Birthday, Lauren!

Andrea