Birthday Cake?

Our Favorite Daughter met us at the hotel with B-Day cupcakes. She made them for her office co-workers, saving a few for us. The recipe and decorating are a result of the classes she took last winter/summer. See this Blog Post.

3 frosted, 3 unfrosted

Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting

Secret ingredients:

vanilla bean olive oil, pure vanilla extract from Mexico,

vanilla bean salt, vanilla bean sugar

and probably a few other ingredients

No, not pepper

Vanilla Bean seeds in the vanilla bean paste frosting

Baked in the U of M Gopher cupcake papers

Her Alma mater

YUM YUM YUM!