Little Monster's First Birthday

My little monster is turning one and I decided to throw a Minnie Mouse Tsum Tsum party. Disney Tsum Tsum are my latest obsession, they are these little plush dolls that you can stack. Let's get stacking!

I've been planning this birthday since the day she was born. A few weeks prior to the party, I started making all the party decorations. As for the cake, we had a friend make a Minnie Mouse Tsum Tsum cake with a semi-smaller smash tsum tsum cake for the little monster.

Here's how the party came out:

 

My niece helped me make a welcome sign. Since it was raining all day we put the sign by the front door.

FAIL: Homemade Hostess Cupcakes

This is my first food post and it's going to be about how I failed at making cupcakes. Great.....I hope ya'll (like my Texas accent?) don't get the impression that I can't cook because I can. Like I said before my niece and nephew is staying with me for a week in the summer, so I thought it would be fun to make cupcakes with/for them. They wanted chocolate cupcakes, so I pulled up the Hostess Cupcake recipe (w/ pictures) to show them and they screamed "YES, THAT ONE!" This is the recipe I kind of followed to make these Hostess Cupcakes - Brown Eyed Baker. In the end, the cupcakes still tasted very good, so all was not lost.

All the recipes for the Hostess Cupcakes used chocolate cake made from scratch and I wasn't about to do that, so I replaced with a box of chocolate cake mix. First, I made the cupcake from the directions on the box (easy peasy) and preheated the oven.