Billa Cakes: Portfolio: Red Velvet Whoopies and "2" Sugar Cookies

My daughter and I had the joy of attending the birthday party for the daughter of a dear friend of mine this past weekend. Abby Lu turned two and her mom planned a cookie themed party for the little munchkin. Anna is a corporate event planner and she always has the most wonderful and fun ideas for birthday parties! She blogs about that and her crafty activities frequently, and I just love, love, love reading about all the fun stuff she does.

Anna had a milk moustache photo station for everyone to take their pictures. Here's me and Billa!

She planned on having quite a few cookies for the party and asked me to bake up some red velvet whoopie pies and some sugar cookies in the shape of the number 2 for Abby's party. Abby apparently adores red velvet and I was excited to try a new recipe for them at the party. I have a recipe that is pretty good, but after baking some chocolate whoopies for my mom's birthday, I wanted to tweak the chocolate recipe and see if I couldn't duplicate the texture with red velvet. They came out fantastic!

The cookie buffet...so many tasty treats!

For the number 2's, I did half of them with solid cookie monster blue and the other half with blue sprinkles. Doing these brought back memories of my daughter's second birthday last year, in which I did a Sesame Street theme and gave away sugar cookie S's, 2's, and Elmo's as favors.

My daughter and I enjoyed visiting with lots of our friends that we had not seen in some time. The party was so much fun because we got to eat my favorite thing: cookies! They also happen to be one of Abby's favorite things too!