Cake Designer Boy

Me: hey Donovan, want to make a cake for your dad’s birthday?

Him: yes!

Me: ok, his favorite cake is…

Him: we’ll make chocolate cake with vanilla icing, then chocolate chips on the icing and strawberries like a cap!

Me: …

Him: and cupcakes instead of cake. 

So that’s what we did. I measured, he poured and stirred. I mixed, he held his ears (electric hand mixer is noisy.) He put cupcake papers in the pan, I poured in the batter. I washed strawberries, he did all the decorating. 

And they were very delicious (and he was very pleased with himself). The end. 

There’s a lot of icing left, so tomorrow I’m going to try melting chocolate chips and combining them with the icing to make a sauce for angel food cake. Wish me luck!

Chocolate cupcake recipe: add a pinch, Best Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

Old-fashioned no-dairy (delicious!) vanilla icing: Food.com, Grammie Bea’s Special Vanilla Frosting