National Cupcake Day

Today we made orange cranberry cupcakes with cream cheese frosting - I was looking for something with winter/holiday flavors and since I love fresh cranberries in baked goods I had to try these! The cupcakes came out a little dense (but I find most fruit cupcake recipes end up dense) but the flavor was spot on. And the frosting was creamy and just sweet enough. 

Lil C and Squidgy helped make the batter, but their favorite part is always decorating the cupcakes. They both wanted to do the frosting all by themselves (I only helped a little!) and then add sprinkles, lots of sprinkles!

I also asked the kids to draw me their perfect cupcakes, promising that we would try to make them later this month.

Squidgy is a simple man, who knows what he likes. He takes after Mommy and loves chocolate - chocolate with chocolate and then some more chocolate! I love that he named his cupcake design "The Batwing!"

Lil C, on the other hand, likes to go big. And apparently when it comes to her cupcakes, going big means going "sky high" with A LOT of grape frosting on a strawberry sprinkle cake and a unicorn on top! I told her I had never had grape frosting before, nor did I know how to make any. She suggested making the cream cheese frosting again and adding grape jelly to it. It's worth a try! I'll let you know how it turns out!