Anna had a birthday party to celebrate turning 3 today. She wanted a Strawberry Shortcake party, which was a pretty easy theme to work with!
For food, we made a variety of pinwheel wrap sandwiches, a veggie tray with dip, a layered fruit salad (in my new Pampered Chef trifle bowl – it was pretty as well as tasty!) and chips with homemade french onion dip. I also made some blueberry muffins, my mom picked up some incredibly delicious lemon bars, and I made these strawberry shortcake cupcakes in lieu of a fancy decorated cake. (We skipped the raspberry torte and the apple dumplings. There were plenty of desserts already!)
I’ve never made cupcakes from scratch, so I was really happy with how they turned out. The baking was the easy bit – filling them was a bit fiddly and time consuming. And then the icing started sliding off the cupcakes while they were in the stand and it was a messy disaster, so they were on there approximately long enough to take the above picture and then went back in the cupcake carriers. But even though they turned out a bit messy, they were delicious!
I made a bean bag toss game a couple of weeks ago, which we put out but didn’t really organize. The kids were mainly more interested in just playing with each other. So much so that I don’t think any of them ate lunch! And then it was time for cupcakes. Anna was very excited to blow out her birthday candle!
It was a “berry” fun birthday party, and it was followed by some time in the pool for those who could stay and play. Thanks to all who came and made Anna’s birthday party fantastic!
