Dessie is one of my super duper best friends and her lovely daughter Gabbie (Lillie’s super duper best friend) celebrated her 6th birthday at the Des Moines’ zoo last weekend.
Part of the party package includes having the children learn and interact with two animals from the zoo, of course some of the friendly critters. They actually bring them to the room for the kids to see and touch. Gabbie choose to have a turtle and a hedgehog at her party and I decided to add another cute critter to the pack.
When Dessie asked me to take care of her treats this year, I absolutely agreed.
The hedgehog cupcakes are chocolate with buttercream icing.
Then we have some turtles on strawberry cupcakes (Gabbie’s favorite flavor). sitting on a combination of soft yellow and white buttercream icing.
And my addition to the critter set, a sweet fox. Maybe I should have made a red panda since they have one at the zoo. She looks cute (I think).
We also made sugar and brown sugar cookies for party edible favors.
After making these cookies I thought that maybe the fox should have been smelling some pretty flowers instead of a tree with barely any leaves left on the branches. Opps…
The hedgehog walking on grass…
And the turtle swimming in water, sort of… yes, no?
I think I made over 60 chocolate decorations and used them on both the cupcakes and the cookies as you could see.
Gabbie was very happy with her treats and I was delighted to hear to see her pretty happy birthday face.
We love you sweetheart… Happy Birthday!