Pink Cupcakes for a Girly Lunch

Pop on over and meet my new blogging friend Marina at Cuoche dell'altro mondo.  When Marina invited me for lunch at her place I thought "ooh Italian food cooked by a real Italian woman" . I'm soooo going there for lunch. Then when she said she had two little girls who would be home I thought " oh little girls, they are so sweet". After living in a houseful of men little girls sounded very appealing. Little girls don't rush about yelling and shouting (except when they shut their finger in the door). Not that my boys rush about yelling and shouting anymore but I do have to put up with action movies on the TV and band practise in the garage.

I've done my time making boy cakes and here was my chance to make girly cakes for little girls....pink...with hearts...and served on a pretty pink dish.

I used my favourite banana and nutella cupcake recipe from Delicious Days, baked them in mini muffin papers for 10 minutes, iced with white and pink tinted icing and added heart sprinkles.

Marina shares her blog with a friend in Germany so the posts are sometimes, Italian, sometimes German and a little bit of English.  We had a lovely afternoon, and talked and talked about food as food bloggers do. I''m looking forward to learning more about Italian food from Marina and in exchange I'll teach her a little about New Zealand and Australian food.