I thought I would share a lovely idea my friend Ash had the other day. She was putting together a book-themed baby shower and asked me to make these cupcakes.
I used The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook's vanilla cupcake and vanilla icing recipes. I won't copy out the recipes for them here because that's not the point of this post. As we don't know whether the baby's a boy or a girl, I divided the icing and put a splash of pink in one half and a splash of blue in the other. I'm quite proud of myself for managing these pale colours because I usually accidentally end up with extremely vibrant-looking food when I get hold of food colouring. Then I got carried away and sprinkled cachous over the tops (because, wheeeeeeeeee, they're so pretty)!
Next, I found a dozen popular kids' book covers on Google and printed two of each in tiny, cupcakey proportions. I laminated them (food-proof!) and used Blu-Tack to stick them back-to-back on toothpicks. It turned out to be a pretty easy and inexpensive way to make DIY cupcake decorations, and it could possibly work with some other baby shower themes as well.
Incidentally, see that weird tray the cupcakes are sitting in? It's part of a super-cool cake/cupcake carrier I bought online that makes transporting your baking a cinch. I love it!
