Denise Richards' youngest daughter, Eloise, is growing up fast, and she has a delightful cake to show for reaching her latest milestone. In late May, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills daughter celebrated her ninth birthday with a clever confection that combined the best of both worlds: The dessert managed to be both cupcakes and a cake. (Indeed, why should anyone have to choose?) 

In a candlelit Instagram snap from May 25, Denise showed her daughter smiling above a sea of candles on a pull-apart cupcake cake. On top of vanilla cupcakes plied with clouds of white icing, there was a frosted, rainbow-hued mosaic. 

"Our Eloise turned 9 yesterday..... happy birthday sweet angel," the proud mama captioned the snap. "We love you so much." Sweet seems like an apt descriptor for the birthday girl, who recently prepared a feast for a bunny she found waiting out a storm in her Malibu yard.  

We hope Eloise wished big on those whimsically twisted candles:

The birthday girl also got plenty of good wishes from Housewives. Sutton Stracke commented: "Sweet face! HBD" while her fellow RHOBH rookie Garcelle Beauvais wrote: "Happy birthday Eloise." 

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