To celebrate Eva Mei's last week of soft foods we made pink cupcakes. Why Pink? Eva's new favorite book is Pinkalicious by Victoria & Elizabeth Kann. Pinkalicious is a little girl that made pink cupcakes with her mom and ate so many that she turned pink. Eva likes to turn to the page where daddy scolds Pinkalicious for eating too many cupcakes. She points to Pinkalicious and says, "naughty" or "no-no." Our matching cupcake aprons were made by our Aunt Vera Neely.
Eva helped me put all the ingredients in the bowl and even cracked the eggs, which she thought was pretty cool. I had to pull apart the cracked eggs so Miss Clean wouldn't get her precious fingers dirty. That's one thing that Eva still doesn't like is being dirty or messy, and I'm thankful for that. After we put all the ingredients in the bowl, we put it on the KitchenAid mixer, of course. Eva wanted to help with that, but I didn't want her to get too close and put her fingers near the mixer.She patiently waited for the mixing to finish and then she was ready to eat it. I told her she had to wait for them to cook in the oven, but she could lick the spoon when I was done. Eva just learned what licking is from her liquid diet. She's been licking a lot of ice cream in the last few weeks. She really liked the pink batter.
Frosting the cupcakes wasn't as much fun as eating them. Again, I had to help her do it so she didn't get any on her fingers. Once she finished frosting and putting sprinkles on she was ready to eat them. I didn't want her to turn pink, so she could only have one. She of course wanted more and kept whining for more all day. I just kept telling her I didn't want her to turn pink like Pinkalicious. She didn't really go for that, but she agreed to wait until dinner for another one.
