Baby Shower Cupcake Ideas
Cupcakes are a popular alternative to a large decorated sheet cake at a baby shower. The small cakes are neatly wrapped in easy to handle decorative or plain paper liners which will cut down on dessert plates, forks and clean-up. The portion is sufficient for a sweet tooth and saves on over-large portion sizes for those who are eating the decorative treat. You can make a traditional baby-emphasized cupcake or pick a theme decoration for the dessert. Does this Spark an idea?
Baby Girl or Boy
Frost the cupcakes with pastel colored frosting. Place a plastic baby favor into one end of a cupcake and using your decorator bag with the leaf or petal tip, pipe frosting over the baby, for a blanket. Use a leaf or petal tip to pipe ruffles at the sides and foot area of the cake to make a bassinet. Pipe a ruffle at the head of the bassinet. Use a small round tip to pipe a tiny bow onto the cake. Simply frost a cupcake with a color of choice for a face and use a small round tip to pipe with brown or black icing for eyes, and add a smiley mouth on to the baby. Insert a tiny favor in the shape of a baby bottle or pacifier in to the mouth area of the baby face. You can also pipe the shapes of tiny baby footprints onto a frosted cupcake.
Nature
You can find novelty cupcake holders at craft and cake decorating supply stores that have been designed to look like the body and feet of an animal. These adorable specialty holders come with directions for you to decorate the cupcake to complete the whimsical animals. The cupcakes can be arranged on a tray that has been sprinkled with crushed chocolate chip cookies and green tinted coconut to look like grass, stones and dirt. There are also patterns available in cake decorating books to make baby pandas and teddy bear cupcakes along with other animals that are appropriate for a baby shower. Frost a cupcake and pipe colorful caterpillars or lady bugs on to the surface. You can also make cupcakes and place icing flowers in the centers. Add edible glitter to make a more elegant cupcake for the baby shower. Place these on a cupcake dessert stand display for a centerpiece for the food table.
Party Favors
Stores that supply cake decorating materials have a section of baby shower favors. You can find miniature baby bottles, multi-colored diaper pins, pacifiers, rattles, inch-high babies, pink, blue or yellow footprints and miniature crystal baby carriages to place on to the cupcakes. Frost the baby shower cupcakes in lavender, mint green, pale orange, yellow, pink and blue then place one or two favors on to the individual dessert. Display the little cakes on a glass cake stand with miniature pastel kisses placed in between them.
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