Cupcakes: Decorating Your First Baby’s First Cake

Decorating Baby Shower Cupcakes

Ever remembered the day you celebrated after seeing those two marks in your pregnancy kit? Or even reminisced the day you had generous dinner after seeing that little being in your tummy through ultrasound? Such examples of wonderful things to mark for your calendar and prepare for a small gathering of celebration. And now that you have your angel inside you waiting to see the world, why not take time to have him a prepared celebration through your baby shower party?

Shower parties have always been a tradition to every family dedicated for someone who’s going to be a “mommy”, few days in the counting. Every mother, expectant of having a handsome baby boy or cute little girl as their very first angel has this pre-welcoming ceremony. And what’s exciting with this celebration? It’s the food! Simple yet too sweet to return to your baby tooth, a baby shower usually does have cupcakes and teas right in front of the guests’ table.

Nowadays, cupcakes have revolutionized: from small plain ones, to even gigantic, minute, and differently-figured pastry bites. Famous for its easy-to-prepare nature, these cupcakes will surely take the center-table of your baby shower party! So what are you waiting for? It’s not yet late to wear that apron and have your first baby hi pre-cake as the star of the baby shower party! Here are some of the wonderful designs that would surely let those “babies’ go round and round and round!

Little Peepers: Your Baby’s Sweet Peek in Every Bite

Ever wondered if your angel is a boy and a girl? Why not have your guests guess your baby through these cute Little Peepers cupcakes! Oops, don’t get intimidated with the name; it’s just as easy as having some babies in the blanket on top of your bities!

What you need:
Tools
Cookie Sheet
Rolling Pin
Roll & Cut Mat
Cutter/Embosser
Square Cutters
Brush Set
Silicone Baking Cups
Ruler
Paring Knife
Ingredients
Icing Colors (Particularly skin tone and bright baby colors)
Ready-To-Use White Rolled Fondant
Buttercream icing
Edible Color Markers

Procedure
Making the sweet baby topping. As said earlier, these little baby cupcake toppings are just as easy as decorating your regular cupcake. First you have to make the individual parts: the head, hands, and finally the body. For the head and hands, you need to hue some 1 ½ inches of fondant ball with light brown or with your desired skin tone. To make the head, roll an inch fondant ball and have 1/8 inches portion for the nose. Attach the part using damp brush. Then draw the remaining parts (particularly eyes and mouth) through edible color markers. Use 3/8 inches fondant ball for the hands and attach to the head with damp brush. Make the cute little fingers by making lines in the hands using a paring knife. Make a white oval fondant (with dimensions 1 ¼ in x ¾ in) that would serve as the body. Indent body at the center and attach the back of the head with damp brush.

Cupcakes: Preparing the Sweet Babies’ Bed. Bake the cupcakes and cool them in silicone cups with cookie sheets for support. Smooth the butter icing at the cupcakes’ head and position miniature baby parts afterwards. Use icing color to hue 1 ½ inches balls to have the baby blankets; you could freely choose the colors that you want, two colors will do. Roll all fondant with a thickness of 1/6 inches. From the remaining plain fondant, cut a 3 ½ in. x 3 in. piece to have the blanket’s base piece. Cut out five squares from each color and attach them alternately onto the base, smoothing the gaps with fingers. Allow ample space for the white base to show demarcation of the colored squares. Position the blanket in the baby figure. Finally, make the pacifier using ¼ inches oval fondant with food color and roll out 1/16 inches plain for the center. Attach the final piece with damp brush.

Many say the baby toppings are time consuming to make, but wait, aren’t those cute little baby toppings too sweet to worth your time making them? And that’s the great way to survey the Godfathers and Godmothers about their guess: is it a boy or is it a girl? Surely, these cute little angels on every bite would be the cutest babies in the party.

Remember-These-Cupcakes: Capturing the Whole Process in Every Bite

In a hurry preparing for the baby shower? Why not try this simple yet very touching cupcake decoration – the Remember-These-Cupcakes. Too convenient to make, these cupcakes let everyone reminisce every moments: from the first month up to the moment that you are now celebrating the coming of your ethereal angel from Above.

What you need

Cupcakes (Prepared earlier)
Icing Colors (Particularly bright baby colors)
Buttercream icing
Chocolate Sprinkles
Reduced pictures attached in long thin sticks

Procedure

Making these cupcakes is just as easy as how the needed materials were presented. All you have to do is to swirl the buttercream icing at the top of the cupcakes, have it sprayed with edible icing colors, and sprinkle with chocolates (chocolate chips would do). Finally pin down the sticks with the reduced pictures attached in it. Make sure the pictures won’t sink within the top icing! You could add chocolate pretzels to accentuate the design better.


There are a lot of things that could be done with such simple and easy-to-do cupcake design. Place these cupcakes in a stair-like cupcake stand; this would surely symbolize how you had started from those happy ultrasound sessions up to wearing that long duster and carrying that pounding belly in your party. Or guests could readily send you pictures with you along the way to your first motherhood, a more touching way of looking back with those people around you. Many more ideas for the picture, for pictures tell stories, and let those stories be retold through that remember-these-cupcakes of yours, capturing each memory, every bite of a second!


Looking into the future or just want to bring back the past, whatever theme you would like to have for your baby shower party, would always mean sweetness of expectant motherhood. Have those cupcakes rolling into your table and get ready as everybody goes back to their sweet teeth with these great pastry ideas. But wait! You should never miss this thing: have the expectant mommy the first bite among the indulgers, for this cupcakes are absolutely the angel’s first ever taste of his first ever cake!