A Sweet Tale

Did you remember that I was going to tell you a story about two little girls and two batches of cupcakes? Well, here goes... Once upon a time there were two little girls who were assigned by their fifth grade teacher to do a demonstration in front of their class. Let's call the first little girl "The Chef" and the second little girl "Her Friend". Well, The Chef and Her Friend decided to demonstrate how to decorate cupcakes. After all, that is one of The Chef's favorite things to do. The Chef and Her Friend went through my pantry and decided that they would decorate lemon cupcakes.
While The Chef and Her Friend were at school, I baked the cupcakes.
The secret to this recipe is to add a 3 oz. package of lemon Jell-o to the cake mix and then follow the rest of the directions on the box. This makes a very moist lemon-y cupcake.
The Chef suggested that I add a bit of lemon zest to the frosting. How many eleven year olds do you know that would suggest a bit of lemon zest? That girl certainly knows her stuff! LOL!

Here are The Chef and Her Friend decorating some of the cupcakes for their classmates. They used both a star tip and a round tip.
They left a few of the cupcakes undecorated so that they would have something to demo in class the next day.
Ahhh...look how cute! Little Lemon Heads on top of the lemon cupcakes. Don't they look tempting? Trust me, they were GREAT!!!

But wait! Something's missing!!!

"Mom...would you make aprons for us to wear when we do our demonstration?" "Please?"

Now who could resist a request like that? Not me! So off to Broadbent's I went.

I worked up this pattern as I went along. Yes, I took the easy road and used grosgrain ribbon for the ties. This is The Chef's apron. Her Friend's apron had orange trim with yellow rick rack on the pockets and yellow ribbon ties.
How sweet! Don't you think the pearls add the finishing touch to this delicious tale?!