Cupcakes Really?

[mom2many]

My dcms always want to bring cupcakes to celebrate their child's birthday and although they are messy, I never discourage it. However, I am thrilled, when they can eat them outside!

I prefer homemade ones, because they aren't loaded with gobs of frosting. If they are from the bakery, I scrape off most of it before giving it to them. Less mess and sugar and they don't like it anyways!

I had one funny experience though when one of my more "health conscious" dcms decided to bring homemade cupcakes for her daughter's 1st birthday. She prided herself on hiding veggies in everything. She decided to "hide" broccoli in the white cupcakes. A couple of the older kids questioned why the cake was green. I didn't say anything and when one of the S/A kids took a bite, he made the most awful face and said, "Ewww, it tastes like brocolli!" Needless to say, no one ate them! Carrots & zucchini may fly in cake, but broccoli was a no go! ::::::

[Jewels]

Birthdays are also the only time we get sweet treats here, or holidays, I never mind having cupcakes or cookies for those special occasions, they are so few and far between. but thats just me, these kids are so well fed here, today we are having wild alaskan salmon, brown basmatti rice, brocolli and fresh pears, an occasional cupcake I think is great. Now when my son used to be in daycare everyday I picked him up he had a cookie in his hand, uggh! that didn't last long

[Jewels]

My dcms always want to bring cupcakes to celebrate their child's birthday and although they are messy, I never discourage it. However, I am thrilled, when they can eat them outside!

I prefer homemade ones, because they aren't loaded with gobs of frosting. If they are from the bakery, I scrape off most of it before giving it to them. Less mess and sugar and they don't like it anyways!

I had one funny experience though when one of my more "health conscious" dcms decided to bring homemade cupcakes for her daughter's 1st birthday. She prided herself on hiding veggies in everything. She decided to "hide" broccoli in the white cupcakes. A couple of the older kids questioned why the cake was green. I didn't say anything and when one of the S/A kids took a bite, he made the most awful face and said, "Ewww, it tastes like brocolli!" Needless to say, no one ate them! Carrots & zucchini may fly in cake, but broccoli was a no go! ::::::

yyeah carrots and zuchini, brocoli, GROSS!

[Jewels]

Oh just to be clear, I don't mind the sweets at all. I just don't mind the insane coloring of the cupcake frosting, not to mention the 1/4 of it. As long as I scrape off most if not all of the frosting it's fine. That stuff stains instantly and most of my kids like MyAngel said, don't even like it. The little ones (under 2 years) have it all over their face and their hands and it does not come out. But we celebrate each birthday with a treat and also I get them a little gift.

LOL my daughter only eats the frosting, I have never seen her take a bite of the cake.

[littlemissmuffet]

I don't allow outside food or drinks, no matter what. The fact that the dad said "I know... it was my wife" would have really peeved me off. He KNOWS the rule. I would have sent them right back out the door.

We do have cupcakes for bdays. I buy mini unfrosted ones and I frost and decorate them a particular theme. The kids get them at afternoon snack right before going home. No way am I being stuck in a house with sugared up kids ::

[Lyss]

Personally I hate when parents bring cupcakes! Frosting is such a pain to clean and frosting or not I spend way too much time cleaning up crumbs that get tracked all over when someone gets up as they all end up with it in shirts and pants. I have a younger group though so that is probably a big part of it.

If parent's bring them (I encourage cookies if they have to bring something) I will scrape off most of the frosting but we only eat them at the end of the day, so when the sugar rush hits they are on their way home! ::

[Jewels]

Personally I hate when parents bring cupcakes! Frosting is such a pain to clean and frosting or not I spend way too much time cleaning up crumbs that get tracked all over when someone gets up as they all end up with it in shirts and pants. I have a younger group though so that is probably a big part of it.

If parent's bring them (I encourage cookies if they have to bring something) I will scrape off most of the frosting but we only eat them at the end of the day, so when the sugar rush hits they are on their way home! ::

I feel so happy to have a dog, that cleans every scrap up, when my husband goes hunting, I realize how much food goes on the ground

I guess I have never had a parent bring anything, they all know I provide a birthday treat, so it's never happened.

[Crazy8]

I don't have a no cupcake policy but I do what you did - wipe most of the frosting off them and split them in half and we have them for afternoon snack so kids eat them and go home. I hate when people bring them because I'm trying to diet and I can't resist a good cupcake! ::

[Unregistered]

We make cupcakes here as a group for birthdays (a lower sugar version) with minimal icing for older ones and no icing for little ones. Not sure all the parents I have would appreciate the wee ones having full surgar/icing version. I know one would not be pleased at all. Maybe just my thing, but I prefer to have control over all foods served. I have know idea how clean a kitchen it was prepared in or how ingredients etc. were stored. Plus I've had littles with alergies in the past, that other parents never seem to remember. No Food From Home.

[lovemykidstoo]

I don't have a no cupcake policy but I do what you did - wipe most of the frosting off them and split them in half and we have them for afternoon snack so kids eat them and go home. I hate when people bring them because I'm trying to diet and I can't resist a good cupcake! ::

That's funny because I was just saying this morning that as much as I don't like the cupcakes brought here, it is the 1 treat that I can do without!! LOL! So, I guess I should be happy that that is what they brought today! Now the other birthday was last month and the mom brought the kernelless popcorn that had been covered with white chocolate and marshmellow. oh man, i could have eaten the whole bowl!!

[My3cents]

I usually make the kids cupcakes or buy them for birthdays. I don't do sweets any other time besides Holidays, so it is a true treat for everyone.

[mema]

I'm not a cupcake fan here either (well, me personally-I love them), but the dck's don't even eat them. They may pick a little here and there, but for the most part, they would prefer a cookie. The laste dck's b-day, dcm asked if she could bring cupcakes and I told her cookies would be better since the kids never eat more than a bite of cupcake. She looked at me like I was nuts and then one kid piped up and said, yea, they are yucky! She brought cookies!

[AfterSchoolMom]

What time is pickup? Just give them out about 20 minutes before that.

[spud912]

Ahh, I'm pretty laid back about this. I try to limit sweets to only holiday celebrations or birthdays, but I've found that on occasion I will give them a treat to coordinate with one of our themes. For example, for camping week, the kids had s'mores on one of the days. The treats are only given at snack time (which "happens" to be right before pick-up time ), so unfortunately for the parents, they deal with the craziness.

[Patches]

Is it bad that this thread is just making me want cupcakes??::