My son’s 6th birthday party was coming up and I usually buy cakes from Costco (big, cheap, fast) but this year, I tried my hand at cupcake decorating. I picked up this cute cupcake book, “Hello, Cupcake!”   Great book for starters out there-no special equipment or expensive tools neccesary!  I told my son to pick out any cupcake in the book and I would make them for his party.  He picks out the Shark Attack on page 81- perfect for his shark themed party. Looks easy enough. I plan this for weeks-bought blue cupcake liners online since they’re hard to find anywhere else, got my twinkies (4 boxes of them!) and even found the elusive Famous Chocolate Wafers by Nabisco at the local Giant grocer.    So the day of the party, I try to make the shark cupcakes but I couldn’t get them to look presentable.  2 hours before the party and all I had were 10 shark cupcakes and only 5 looked good enough to share.  Did I mention I had to make 24. I really should have practiced before hand! No time to panic, I had to think fast! I ran to the nearest bakery and picked up a half sheet of chocolate cake with white frosting.  I scrape off the small amount of white flowers and some frosting from the top to make room for my blue frosting. I then added 3 of the best looking sharks on top.  As you can see, it doesn’t look bad.  My kids liked it so much my 3 year old daughter insisted I make her a special cupcake from the book.  I made her cute little Westies. These to me were so much easier so I made 10 of them for the little girls at the party.   Not too shabby.  Although, I clearly need the practice.

Here are some inspired cupcake sites I found. Click on the photo to link to the blog.

Hello Cupcake Blog

Cupcake Bake Shop by Chocylit

Cupcakes Take The Cake

Cupcake Activist

Cupcake Journal

Tags: cupcake, hello cupcake, shark cake, shark party