Pandas and Babies

Today was my god daughter Kaiya's first birthday party and for her party I had decided I would bake Panda cupcakes from my Hello Cupcake! book.  I had intended on starting on them a few days ago, but due to work craziness, I started working on them last night.  My plan was to bake the cupcakes, then frost and decorate them the next morning.  Unfortunately, work also deprived me of playing Starcraft for several days so I thought I'd play a few games while I baked.  A few games turned into 3am.  Needless to say I was pretty messed up the next morning.

(So I'm playing with my friend John, and we decide that I would go air and he would go ground.  Me being inexperienced with Terran air units, start pumping out Banshees because they seem pretty powerful.  John then messages me ``those are air to ground units`` at which point the enemy comes in with their entire air force and annihilates us.  Oops)

Mental note #1: Don`t play Starcraft the night before I have to get up early and decorate
Sub mental note: Don`t use Banshees to fight air units

So this morning I hit up Bulk Barn to pick up some decorating supplies.  I couldn`t find chocolate covered sunflower seeds or chocolate cereal Os so I decided to substitute with chocolate chips and mini oreos, although this had the effect of making my pandas look slightly Mickey Mouse-ish.  Surprisingly Bulk Burn does not have mini marshmallows (or regular marshmallows for that fact) in bulk which is surprising since they have so many sugar covered ones in bulk.  So I settled for a bag which unfortunately means I will have to find a need for the 99% I don't use.  I then made what I thought was going to be a quick trip to pick up Kaiya`s birthday present, but ended up taking a lot longer which didn`t give me a lot of time left to decorate.

I was running late to the party so I raced down to the park.  As I reached to pull out my cupcake carrier out of the car, I looked down to see what looked like a panda cupcake massacre.  Heads had flown off and others mangled.  I salvaged as many as I could but some remained headless casualties.  But I delivered my cupcakes and they were quickly eaten up.  The cupcakes even got tweeted! (sure he's a friend of mine, but that still counts)  I`m definitely moving up in the baking world.

Happy 1st Birthday Kaiya!

Mental note #2: Cupcakes need seatbelts (or me to drive slower)

Cupcake Notes:
-I should have secured the heads and arms with more frosting to avoid heads flying off, so be generous when gluing the pieces together
-I used 8 cookies for the fur as instructed but I found that was way too much so you probably only need about half
-frosting the head is a bit tricky as the marshmallow tends to move around, just be sure that it ends up close to the center