Annabelle's birthday party

Annabelle's birthday party Saturday was great! We had planned a garden party, but the yard was too wet, so it was more of a garden-themed party. It was a real baby party--seven of the twelve children were under two years old. I made French vanilla cupcakes with lemon-cream cheese filling and buttercream icing. For the flowers I used pre-colored fondant and flower-shaped cutters. For the butterflies, I piped melted chocolate onto wax paper in the shapes of wings and bodies and filled them in with yellow candy:



Annabelle, of course, had her own little cake to smash up herself:



The favorite snacks of the party were chocolate-covered pretzel sticks molded into the shape of daisies:



The creation I was most proud of was my fruit flower basket:



The kids planted marigolds in flower pots to take home. Here are Lily and James posing with their flowers and Annabelle trying to put her flower back on its stem ofter she pulled it off (she later tried to eat it):




In all, it was great fun, and Annabelle was a happy (almost) one-year-old.