Madre's weekend & the Cupcake Disaster

This past Sunday was of course a very special day - Mother's Day!
My sister & I worked hard on putting a french/garden themed luncheon

together for her. We went out to a beautiful park outside of the city and setup

a picnic table that had elegant decorations and place settings. We were pretty

pleased with ourselves! The food was delicious, because we got some of the sandwiches

from the place I mentioned before, "La Boulange." However, my biggest disappointment

was the cupcakes I prepared! I can't even begin to describe the horrible mess the cupcakes

morphed into...I tried using a recipe that had this beautiful design for "sunflower cupcakes"
and, gosh - dang it! I couldn't create that cool petal effect for the icing!

So instead of it looking like a sunflower, it looked more like a scary spider or something

Ah, well. Despite the disaster, my mom seemed to enjoy herself out in nature and

with her girls...so that is what was important.