Baby Shower Cupcakes
They say that good things come in small packages, like babies and cupcakes. If you're considering making cupcakes while planning your next baby shower there are a host of great tips and ideas linked on the right-hand side of this page. Check them out!
Fast Facts
- Cupcakes are small, individually wrapped cakes
- Offers more variety to guests at parties
- Can be decorated individually so each one is unique
- Cupcake bakeries a popular, growing businesses in the U.S.1
Baby Shower Cupcake Ideas
Make flesh-colored frosting and use a fine-tipped cake gel to paint different faces on each cupcake.2
Candy accessories like baby feet and pacifiers can be used to decorate cupcakes.
Popular decorating colors tend to be pastels like baby-blue, pink, mint-green and soft yellow.
History of the Cupcake
Around the 19th century, cupcakes became a popular item because they were much easier to bake than regular cakes. The lack of conventional ovens meant much baking had to be done in hearths. Cupcakes were a quick treat to whip up. They were often referred to as number cakes because they were counted out by the number of ingredients one put together to make them. One of the earliest references to the word cupcake was around 1828.3 1
In the early twentieth century they became a popular treat to make for kids due to how easy they were to make. Today they are a cute solution for parties of all kinds, from weddings and birthdays to holidays and baby showers.1
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