Baby Shower Cupcakes

You don’t have to be a cake decorating pro to make baby shower cake. Thank goodness, cupcakes have become extremely popular. There are a million ways that you can make your cupcakes look and taste professional and adorable.

Let’s start with the basics. Cake. Filling. Icing.
Be creative with your flavoring. There are way to many cool cake recipes online to serve boring yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Having a monkey theme baby shower? Why not make peanut butter & banana flavored cupcakes? Get the idea here?

Here are a few of my favorite cupcake recipe ideas:
Cream filling

Chocolate Cupcakes with Ganache Filling

Lemonade Cupcakes

York Peppermint Patty Cupcakes

Tiramisu Cupcakes YUM!

Gluten Free Almond Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes

Smores Cupcakes

Decorating cupcakes is a piece of cake (pun intended).  You can use a pastry bag & tip to ice them really pretty or spread on the frosting with a frosting spatula. Which ever you decide, jazz up your frosting with food coloring or add some pretty, modern sugar sprinkles.

Decorative cupcake wrappers and holders are essential for making your mini delicacies look like a pro made them.

You can go with something classic like this.  Or something absolutely fun like these.

Cupcake toppers are a must for a baby shower. I have found that Etsy is a fabulous place to get cupcake toppers that are more personalized or to match your theme. Just look how “tweet” they are!

I wound up making my own for my daughter’s baby shower. Here’s how I made them.

To display your masterpieces, you can go with a Styrofoam 3 Tier Cupcake Stand and either leave it white or decorate it.   Painting around the edges or glueing ribbon will spruce up a plain and boring anything.  You could  get really crafty and make your own dessert stand from scratch. You could also go with a more reusable metal cupcake display and not have to decorate a thing.