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Here’s an idea for decorating baby shower cupcakes, which may not be original but which can’t go wrong. The photo shows cupcakes with fondant icing and small sugar flowers as additional decorations to the baby faces. However, you don’t have to use fondant if you don’t want to. Your homemade cupcake icing can be as good, if not better, because you know exactly what ingredients you’ve been using to make it. As for the letters, you can buy a pack of those candy cake decorations, like the ones we’ve illustrated here below or some Haribo Gummi candy alphabet letters.

Cake Mate Candy Cake Decorations

These letter-shaped candies come in a pack of 12 alphabet sets, four sets for each of the following colors: pink, yellow and blue. That’s good, because if you have a lot of guests, you may need to bake several dozens of cupcakes for your baby shower party, therefore you’ll make use of a lot of letters.

Before decorating the cupcakes with letter toppings, you’d better make a sort of arrangement scheme on paper, in order to be able to count how many instances of each letter you need for creating the words you want. Of course, you’ll want to write “baby” at least once, but you can also write other things such as your favorite baby names, some vows or even short quotes from your favorite poems.

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Using only letters can quickly become boring, so you may want to alternate “text” cupcakes with “image” ones. You can use hard sugar cupcake decorations to make flowers or some multicolor sprinkles for creating some pieces of mouth watering art. Just look at tis example of cupcakes for a baby girl baby shower party: they surely are cute, especially the ones topped with big pink flowers.

The cupcake frosting for this kind of toppers can be either white, cream or some other pale color. Dark colors may not be such a great idea, so it’s better perhaps to avoid them. There are no special cupcake recipes for baby shower. Any cupcake batter will do, so you can take any recipe you like and instead of its common icing use the themed decorations.

Ladybug Cupcakes Hard Sugar Decorations

Back to our ladybug cupcakes, here’s an example of edible hard sugar decorations available on Amazon for as little as $6.58 for 16 pieces. Made 100% from sugar and food coloring, these decorations are Kosher certified and safe for children’s consumption. Even so, children parties should be closely supervised by adults, because a small child could choke with such decorations if left unattended.
The sugar ladybugs are 1 inch in size, so each cupcake would probably accommodate only one on top of it. Nonetheless, if you decide to use the decorations for a bigger cake, you can arrange the cute little bugs around some hard sugar flowers. The effect on your little party guests is guaranteed.

Crazy Bug Flexible Silicone Pan

This flexible silicone baking pan allows you to bake not only ladybug-shaped cupcakes, but also butterflies, bees and dragonflies. Just prepare your favorite cake butter or muffin mix, pour it into the mold, bake it and add some colorful icing to reproduce the various bugs’ looks. The kids would be sorry to eat their dessert because they will want to keep it. This cupcakes pan measures 10 3/4” x 8 ¼” x 1 1/4″, it is dishwasher safe and can be used in the hot oven up to 450 F. One pan bakes 8 cupcakes, muffins or gelatin figures.

Ladybug Cupcake Boxes

These paper boxes are great for kids parties, if you want to send your guests home with a sweet treat. This way, they will remember the great time they spent at your party. The boxes are made from thick paper and they feature an adjustable insert which allows cupcakes to remain undamaged. The price is $3.99 for a set of four ladybug cupcakes boxes. They are just so sweet!