If you are a beginner to the world of fondant, gum paste and icing and are about to embark on the challenge of creating baby shower cakes, the first thing you should do is check out our baby boy baby shower idea gallery. Hopefully if you are having a girl, she is not due just yet as our baby girl shower idea gallery is in the making!
When you have a stack of ideas, it is time to work out how to make them! This can be difficult, fondant, gum paste and icing decoration can take a while to master, and with a looming party you may not have time to practice! Thankfully Wilton have a stack of easy decorating ideas, including these baby ones.
First we have this adorable chubby bubby. Wilton use a gingerbread boy cutter, but for a cupcake you will need the mini one. Simply then ice your cakes with frosting and gently place the bubby in the centre.
Well they actually use these baby blocks to hold the top layer of a baby shower cake up, but you could easily add another square of gum paste to the top and have a hollow baby block on the top of your cupcakes. This would look especially good on the top of a cupcake tower. Alternatively, you could have a fondant baby popping out of the baby block… hmmm…
I loved those baby’s booties that we featured from Sweet Elizabeth’s blog, well here is how to make them!
They are super cute and done in these ‘is it a boy?, is it a girl?’ color scheme is a lot of fun. Create a game where you could have your guests take a guess at which it will be! Make sure you bake an even number of each cupcake and that you have enough for most people to have two. Tell everyone to take the cake corresponding with their guess, and then you can see how many of each you have left over. The sex of your baby will no doubt then be the one with the least leftover*. After that everyone can devour a second cupcake.
These bottles despite their two dimensional appearance are actually 3D pillar stands for a bigger cake. Given someone is likely to end up with a baby bottle up their nose if you stand these up on your cupcake, I would recommend making them 2D and lying down. What can I say – safety first.
Simply roll out your white fondant making it nice and thick, about a centimeter, then shave off the sides to get the bevelled edges. Create a simple cap by using a triangle cutter, then chop off the top to make it flat and pipe a rim of yellow icing to create the lip of the cap.
These are only a few of the many different cake decorating ideas on the Wilton website, so it is definitely one to book mark and don’t forget to show us your creations!
* Do you think it is necessary to state that the only power the cupcake truly has is to taste delicious and to constantly tempt us to take a bit of its sweet and delicate goodness?
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