Wow! What 8-year-old wouldn't want you for a grandma?

So are there holes in the bottoms or something? So you can get the cupcakes out of the carriers?

Sweet revenge indeed! :-)) Actually, I'm so jealous. I love to bake but my DIL always wants to do "theme" parties for my grandkids so she orders cakes instead of letting me make them. Phooey.

"use a cocktail stick!"

*grin*

thanks, Gordo ....

Awesome cake, Annie!

I wonder why no one ate the cupcakes? To me, they look much tastier than the cake with all that candy all over it. Glad that the birthday girl loved it though.

Our local grocery store sells a cake like that. Kit Kats stuck to the frosting of a 2 layer cake, but the center/top is filled with lots and lots of M&Ms. Very colorful.

You rock!

Plllog, there are no holes in the bottoms of those carriers, the cupcakes sit high enough that you can just grab the top of the cupcake itself and lift it out. The rest of the carrier is a deep plastic bowl with a post in the middle and those carriers fit down over the dowel, three layers deep. The top snaps on and there is a handle, so you can carry 2 dozen cupcakes, stacked 3 deep, without crushing any. It's very handy, and I bought it on clearance last year after Christmas.

arkansas girl, my daughter tells me that Madison had some friends over the next day to play and although the cake was all gone, they ate cupcakes, so they did get eaten, they were just second choice for the kids. Too much candy for me, I didn't eat either one, but I just thought it was odd that I was specifically told that people did not eat chocolate and then that's what they ate!

Annie

Thanks for the description, Annie! That cupcake contraption sounds mighty handy, and obviously easier to get the cakes out of than it looks. I love that each one is on an outside edge and with more exposure in the circle than they'd have in a straight line. (I have cupcake issues. I admit it. ;) )

So, I'm guessing that your Hershey's chocolate cake is more appealing to your SIL's people than the kind of hit you over the head with chocolate cakes that are currently popular, and that they like candy. ;) My mother never cared much for chocolate in general, but occasionally liked it if it wasn't too strong. She probably would have chosen the cupcake, but I could see her liking your chocolate cake (and giving her portion of candy to the kids).

Wow! What an awesome cake!

Annie knocks it out of the park again winning the fabulous Grandma award!

Well, fabulous if you ask the kids. Maybe not so much if you ask the parents, LOL.

Annie

Annie, you never cease to amaze us. Great cake and pretty cupcakes.

Madonna

Thanks, Madonna! I'm told there are still four cupcakes left, although I can't imagine they are very good any more. The frosting got kind of soft, it was hot in the kitchen, and so it didn't hold its shape as well as I would have liked, and I didn't like the fake strawberry flavoring from the extract, it was Wilton and I won't do that again.

Annie