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I currently make cupcakes and my friend has given me only 3 days notice to make 20 cupcakes for a special occasion , anniversary- she must have known i would not be able to get the bits by three days trouble is I said yes but it is short notice. I don't want t let her down but his is last minute. com

I hope the unicorn was ready to trot them over to the friend in a beautiful box made of clouds..

I hate you all. I was going to tidy the house. Really I was. Think I'll make cakes instead...

We've got a meccano crane the OP could borrow. Actually, having said that, I've no idea where it's gone. Blimey!

(Very disappointed that this thread has not made it to the Round-up.)

In the time it has taken to read this thread I have lost the will to live could have made 40 cup cakes decorated them and eaten them! Give me a good old fashion fairy cake decorated lovingly by hand with the help of a child.
When it comes to cake less is more with regard to decoration - less crappy icing and more moist well made cake.
I am now inspired to make a Victoria sponge for the weekend. Kills two birds since ds is getting bored and loves cooking.

Well just to chuck my two penneth in...

I've made 4 chocolate cakes (ready to turn into a very retro Black Forrest Gateaux), a gluten free orange cake (recipe courtesy of the lovely MNers,) roasted a ton of veg for a couscous salad, boiled 2kgs of new potatoes and am currently roasting a 5kg rolled turkey joint. All since 10am.

20 cupcakes - piece of cake.

Friends Of This Thread could unite and make a cupcake each. We could then send next-day delivery to the OP. if we're quick we'll just catch the post!

But then, if we do her work, how will she learn?

Vivi

I'll do my bit by going to costco and buying the cupcakes if you send the OP the 18th and 19th anniversary adornments..

I will stick my fingers in a few of the cupcakes to make them look more 'homemade', might sprinkle some sweat on them too.. just for added autenticity

*10th

I can't bake! Can I just buy one to send?

purrpurr you could send the candles

Deal. I'll just get them on a next day from Amazon Prime like the OP could have done

Oh god Honeydragon, what if she fell not the NHL of ake mixture and got eaten by a dog or something? Can we get MNHQ to sound the octoalert?

She's never coming back is she

FFS I hate you all, am now in the kitchen making fairy cakes. I had a busy afternoon of doing nothing planned.

No, she won't be back, because she needs polite shit.

lunar are they to send to the party? did the OP pm you to tell you that she failed miserably?!

I've been ignoring this thread but DS1 is forcing me to watch Wall-E with him for the 100th time so I thought I would have a glance through.

So glad that I did!

If I can get them to the post office without eating them I'll send them. Don't have any sylvanians, will Lego men do or will that ruin the theme?

Oh my days, I started reading this thread thinking it would be boring but ended up laughing so much that I had to hibernate in the kitchen for 20 minutes Until I could stop laughing as my children were looking at me as though I've gone stark raving bonkers. My eyes were streaming with tears from laughing but at least i managed not to wet my knickers.
I'm going to have to make some cakes tonight.
Does anybody have a good recipe for dairy free buttcream that doesn't take 3 days to make?

lunar I think legomen would ruin the theme..

Could you not nip out to the garden and collect rabbit poos and put them on the cakes? you could send them along with a note saying "sorry, tried to get the sylvanian rabbits to sit on the cakes for 3 days, but they shat themselves at the thought of being eaten"!? I'm sure the party organiser would understand..

Karma, no rabbit poo available but don't worry fil left a packet of senna last time they stayed and they look pretty similar.

now THAT is irony!! haha, a laxative in replacement for rabbit poos. genius, PURE genius!

Grr, hate 'cupcake people', they take it waaaaay too seriously. I don't want to eat half a pound of buttercream and a shitty piece of rice paper on a cocktail stick, just give me a decent sized bit of cake! By the way, I live in a minute, remote hilltop village and I can get next day delivery on all sorts of stuff. I madey friend's WEDDING cake and even that didn't take me three days. Get a grip, love... or just some balls and learn to say no!