Kids Cuisine

Cupcakes are no longer the in thing when it comes to summer entertaining.  Instead, consider the cakelet, a pint sized portion of cake molded into different shapes and fun forms.  Specifically, check out this fun Backyard Bugs Cakelet Pan at Williams-Sonoma.  Featuring bees, dragonflies, ladybugs and butterflies, the cakelet pan makes eight cakes at a time.  These cakelets are perfect for your child’s summer birthday party, or as an accent to a backyard barbecue.  For a birthday party, you can give children the cakelets unadorned and allow them to decorate their own cake with frosting and sprinkles — a craft activity that they can eat when they are finished.  I suspect that even the adults at your party won’t be able to resist the novelty of biting into a sweet and deliciously decorated dragonfly.

**Photos Courtesy Williams-Sonoma