Birthday Mocktails
Beverages, Food, Summer

Birthday Mocktails

Special drinks always give a party a little extra festivity, whether your guests are adults or children. Here are some delicious non-alcoholic drinks that would be tasty additions to either kind of summer party. The ginger-orange juice is not only colorful and peppy, it’s the best thing to drink if you have a summer cold. (Ginger is such an efficacious food; you can almost feel it sliding down the gullet and immediately putting things right.) A mango lassi is more […]

Ice Cream Birthday Cake
Dessert, Food

Ice Cream Birthday Cupcake

Not every child’s birthday is awash in parties, gangs of friends, and breathless excitement.  Sometimes circumstances call for a quieter celebration, and for this, a giant birthday cupcake is the perfect solution.  Remember the old Baskin-Robbins ice cream cakes?  The top of this cupcake is made of ice cream, then frosted: an ice cream sundae built on a piece of chocolate cake.  The only thing needed to make this cake was the cupcake pan, which I found on Amazon. You […]