Occasion: Baby's 1st Birthday
Amount: 8 Dozen.
Cake(s): Red Velvet with Creamed Cheese Frosting
Oreo Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting.
Toppings: Multi-Colored dinosaur sprinkles and Dino Rings.

One of the babies that we sit during the day was having a huge first birthday party and I was asked to make a few dozen cupcakes to help celebrate. The theme of the party was dinosaurs, and there were dinosaurs everywhere. I took full advantage of this by baking the cakes in bright orange wrappers adorned with green dinos, and even used dinosaur sprinkles and topped the cakes with dinosaur rings that I had purchased. What can I say, I like to keep in theme.

My plan was to grab two different recipes and double them up and see how many I ended up with, and that would be that. Apparently the Red Velvet recipe was large to begin with, because doubling it gave me five dozen. The Oreo recipe was smaller, only giving me three dozen. I think that the Creamed Cheese frosting is the whole reason that I'm insanely in love with the Red Velvet cupcake, to me the frosting is what makes it ridiculously awesome.