Last Saturday we had a baby shower for a sweet friend. This baby is her first and she does not know if it will be a boy or girl. Somewhere along the line I got the bright idea to do a polka dot theme. And also decided to make gourmet cupcakes instead of a cake. I was worried right up to the last minute, but it all turned out quite nicely.
I spent many nights googling “baby shower cupcakes” and “polka dot decorations.” My greatest concern was getting polka dots on the cupcakes. I am not a master cake decorator, so this was a little daunting.
Eventually I came across a fun idea to roll our starburst and cut them into shapes. That worked well. Here is a picture:
All you need to do is warm them in the microwave for about 5 seconds, roll them out and cut. I didn’t have little cookie cutters, so I just used a few odd things from the kitchen drawer (a lid and the end of a frosting tip). This Starburst idea came from Angry Chicken.
The kids had fun making people with the starburst scraps:
(4 year olds' starburst person)
(7 year olds' starburst person)
For the lemon poppyseed cupcakes, I put a strawberry milkshake whopper on top:
I used Jamie Oliver's Lemon poppyseed cake recipe with a cream cheese frosting. I love this cake recipe - it uses ground almonds in it - Delicious!
I couldn’t work fast enough to decorate them with polka dots, but I think the pink frosting was enough!
These are vanilla cupcakes with strawberry and mascarpone filling
Other Items I purchased for possible polka dots decorations were:
Spree candy
Necco wafers
You could also use m & m’s
One other thing I tried, which didn't turn out, was candy clay. It is quite easy to make. However, I put it in the fridge over night and it was hard as a rock the next day. Thankfully I didn’t need it.
Fondant would work too, but I have no experience with that, and I've heard the taste is not pleasing.
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