Cupcakes for the princess

It was my girl's first birthday, so what's the mommy to an only child supposed to do? Why, spend hours individually decorating 24 cupcakes, of course!
I always use the Magnolia Bakery cupcake recipe. It's easy and always turns out well. For these cupcakes, I used my new Wilton cake decorating color kit. The vibrancy of the colors was just astounding! These were technicolor cupcakes. Cupcakes on crack. It was awesome mixing colors, not knowing what I was going to come up with, it felt a little Willy Wonka-ish.

I had a great time up until cupcake number 18, by then I just wished I had done normal, plain frosting, but I felt guilty leaving the remaining 6 naked. So, I pressed on. The husband said they didn't look real and that all of my Norwegian guests would be afraid to eat them because they were so pretty. I don't care how pretty they are, NEVER pass up the opportunity for a cupcake. In the end, he was right. There was a lot of oohing and ahhing and asking 'Er det ekte??' Which is 'Are they real??', but there was NO hesitation in eating them. In the end, we gobbled them all up, every last sugary, colorful bite. Enjoy!