Banana Cream Cupcakes

The girls and I made cupcakes this afternoon for a little birthday celebration for Grandma tonight, Banana Cream Cupcakes.  Yum.  They are light and not super sugary sweet the way some cupcakes are.  I used my pastry bag contraption with the filling tip to fill the cupcakes with the banana pudding.  Sadly, this method was a complete failure, and I didn't know it until we ate them.  The cupcakes were way too dense, no room for the pudding, so most of the cupcakes didn't get much filling in them.  Next time I will cut out the center like I did for Rebecca's filled birthday cupcakes.

S'more fun!!

Last night Rebecca and Emily had their friends from church - the Activity Day Girls - come for a night of swimming and s'mores.  The idea was for it to be a last hur-rah for summer.  This week the humidity has really dropped as have the temperatures.  So it was a bit chilly for an evening swim, but the girls still managed to enjoy it.  All 16 of them (and a few couldn't make it - wow!) moved between the pool, fire in the fire pit and play area throughout the evening.  

 

We did this same activity back at the end of June and I learned how much 8-11 year old girls love s'mores!  WOW.  So fun.  This time I put out more, but decided once it was gone, it was gone and not to go back in an replenish the supply ... 3 - 6 packs of chocolate (broken into fourths), two boxes of graham crackers (halved) and two large bags of marshmallows came very close to satisfying them.   


 ** Note to the two locals/ former locals still keeping up with this blog ... help me keep Mama's and Papa's happy, no outing our location OR name of girls.  I know these babies are growing up into beautiful young women so quickly, I'd hate to have to delete one to keep everyone's privacy safe.  xoxo!