Today I (Alex) wanted to experiment with decorating and make a cool cupcake for one of my best friends for her birthday so I made some delicious vanilla cupcakes (from scratch! no box).  Then I made butter cream frosting.  I had never made or worked with butter cream frosting and it’s amazing how well it holds its shape.  However, I think I like chocolate frosting better (next time I am going to make chocolate butter cream frosting).   I ran out of cupcakes to frost so I just practiced on a plate.

The recipe for butter cream frosting is really easy: butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and milk, but the key to making it is to make sure the butter is softened!

Anyway, happy birthday to my bestie!