I've moved !

Daan's Life and Daan's Cupcakes have merged into 1 blog.






You can find me @ Danielle Slingerland, I still talk my life in the Netherlands with my family, about scrapbooking, baking, crochet, planning with my filofax, fabulous finds but also my life as a Work at Home Mom running Oiled by Nature and my journey and experiences with Young Living Essential Oils.

I would love it if you would continue to follow me there ! 

All about the Minions

Dude #2 turned 10 and he loves the Despicable Me movies so a theme for his party was soon found.
I made sweet Minion birthday cakes, angry minion cupcakes, decorated cookies with edible minion prints and of course the M&M's and skittles were sorted in matching colors.

1/2 birthday

Half birthdays are celebrated in our house, sometimes I'm lazy, sometimes I bake a cake. Today it was the latter, happy 1/2 bday dude !

Stroopwafel cupcakes with cinnamon frosting

Dude #2 didn't want to treat his classmates to evil minion cupcakes at school, no he wanted something different.

So he went through my cookbooks, pinterest board and found stroopwafel cupcakes with cinnamon frosting.

They were very tasty, everyone loved them and looked cute too, good choice !

Bake Sale at school

Whenever there is a fair at one of the dude's schools I make cakepops for them to sell, reason I do this is because there are always plenty of ladies making cupcakes and there's always an overload of those.

These are a few of my soldoutin5minutes cakepops that I donated

Doh ... A Simpsons Party

When boys get to the teenager age, there comes a time when kiddie parties are no longer appreciated. Good thing I can still go all out on the big grown up party .... Dude #1 loves the Simpsons so that was his theme for his 12th birthday bash.

We served cakepops brownies, oreo's, choc chip cookies, brownies, mini donuts, M&M's, hamburger candy, red licorice.

As you can see the top cake (I alway smake 2 layers) was donutshaped and that posed for some decorating challenges with the marzipan. But I rocked the bottom layer though !

Pushpops sans the pushpop

What do you do if you were not as prepared as you though for a schooltreat ? You improvise ....

Dude #1 took these to school for a birthday treat, everyone loved them and nobody knew these had to be in pushops rather than this naked version ....