Turtle cupcakes

Continuing on with the preparation for my friend Nhi's rainbow food birthday party, I wanted to make her these cool Squirt turtle cupcakes. Squirt is the cute baby turtle from the movie Finding Nemo. I actually saw the tutorial for how to make Squirt out of jubes and other lollies last year when I was Googling cupcake ideas for Nhi's birthday. I ended up making her Minion cupcakes last year, but I'm glad that I got the chance to go back and make these ones for her :)

It took a while to search for all the different lollies that I needed, and unfortunately I couldn't find the same kind of jubes that they used on the tutorial. As a result, my Squirt cupcakes did't look like Squirt...but they looked like turtles, which is more than I could hope for :D I was worried that they'd just look like fat little green men. 

I love getting creative with food. It just takes the eating experience to a whole new level of awesomeness. 

Check out the Squirt turtle cupcake tutorial here. Instead of using white icing, I bought some white buttercream icing (which I used to stick on the choc chip eyes) and used blue food colouring to colour it. 

 

I thought I might also show you guys the set up for the rainbow party :) We had the jelly orange wedges, rainbow fruit kebabs, fairy bread and the turtle cupcakes. We actually did pretty well and finished off majority of the food between four people. Well it was a party so we're allowed to go a bit nuts :P

Turtle time

Today's adventures in Dallas Texas were things like shopping, eating and going to the Perot Museum. So it's stuff that I've done before and not really worth blogging about. However, what I did do today which I've never done before was hold a turtle! If you live in America, you may not think that's such a big deal, but in little old Perth, Western Australia we're not allowed to keep turtles as pets (according to this source anyways) and so this was so exciting for me. If I'm not mistaken, it was a red bellied turtle and it was oh so cute. Not slimy, not gross; just the friendliest turtle I've ever met.