Showing posts with label eleven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eleven. Show all posts

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Emma’s Eleventh Birthday

The birthday girl
Emma turned eleven on February 15th, and we decided to celebrate with doggie cupcakes and new toys for her and Duke.   

Cupcakes
I made the cupcakes from this recipe, using whole wheat flour.  The recipe says to make six cupcakes with the batter, but I did seven, and will probably do eight the next time.  The cupcakes are fairly dense and solid.  They smell incredibly good!




Enjoying Cupcakes
Waiting for cupcakes!
After the cupcakes cooled completely I frosted them with a mixture of plain Greek yogurt and peanut butter.  I didn’t measure.  I just stirred the two together until the consistency seemed good.  It took a little over half of an individual sized Greek yogurt, and about that much peanut butter.

We turned the afternoon into a little party with hats for Emma and Duke.  I also tried to put hats on the cats, but they prefer to celebrate without hats.  Frankie was the only cat I managed to get a hat on, and he wore it for about three seconds.  Such is life with cats.


Getting RID of his hat!
Emma and Duke seemed to really enjoy the cupcakes, and I think Emma had a happy eleventh birthday.  They certainly looked cute.