pizza + chocolate cupcakes

Today isn't Christmas Eve in our house until after dinner. From the moment we wake up until dinner is eaten it is our middle daughter's birthday.

In our house when it's your birthday, you get to pick the menu for the day. There are only two rules:

1. Only one meal may be eaten at a restaurant. (This had to be instituted because of our eldest son.)
2. Mom holds veto authority.

For her birthday, my not-as-little-as-she-used-to-be-because-she's-now-seven red-head picked pizza: one cheese, one pineapple and one pepperoni. For dessert she asked for chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate ganache frosting and a cherry on top. Believe me, I was quite ready to fulfill her birthday meal wishes with those choices...

I used this recipe for the chocolate cupcakes. Mmmmmmm.