Baby Gender Reveal Cupcakes

It is so much fun to reveal your unborn baby's gender in a creative way! There is so many ways that you can do the reveal, but I think something sweet like cupcakes are a great way to break the great news! This way everyone can share in your happy news and "discover" the secret at the same time.

A few days ago I went for our gender ultrasound.  Unfortunately hubby could not come with me as he had to work, I decided to find out what the baby's gender is, and then I went home to bake these cute cupcakes that will reveal the gender to hubby and our dear son....

When hubby and our son came home that afternoon, I gave them each a cupcake and told them to guess what the baby will be? They bit into the cupcake and it revealed.......

It's a BOY!!! Yes we are going to have a beautiful baby boy! We are so excited. My son is absolutely ecstatic that he is getting a brother :) and hubby is over the moon with another boy! Mommy can't wait to meet my little little guy!

Vanilla Cupcakes

1/2 cup white Sugar
1/3 cup soft Unsalted Butter
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 cups Self Raising Flour
1/2 cup Milk

Cream the Butter and Sugar together till light and fluffy. Beat in the Eggs and stir in the Vanilla.
Add the Flour to the mixture and mix well. Stir in Milk and beat till smooth.

Spoon half of the cupcake mixture into another bowl - add pink or blue (blue in my case) food colouring to half the mixture. Spoon blue mixture into cupcake liners and then top with vanilla mixture.

Bake for 15-20 mins at 180 degrees Celsius, until a test pin comes out clean.

Makes 12 cupcakes

Ice (frost) with any colour icing that you like and put in a pretty cupcake papers. Decorate in any way you like. I frosted my cake in purple icing and decorated with a sugar flower and blue and pink glitter.

              

Plenty to go around........have everyone share in your wonderful news!!

Animal Baby Shower Cake

I recently organised a Surprise Baby Shower for my friend Hanna and decided to make her a special cake for the occasion. She loves the idea of animals for the baby room, so I thought I would make the cake to fit her theme. I made a Jungle themed/Safari themed Animal Cake with Fondant Animals and a Fondant Baby in a crib.

Animal Baby Shower Cake

 For the cake I made a Simple White Cake that is very moist, but firm.

Simple White Cake Recipe

1 cup white Sugar
1/2 cup Butter (soft)
2 Eggs
2 tbsp Vanilla Extract
1 1/2 cups Self Raising Flour
1/2 cup Milk (full fat or reduced fat)

Cream the Butter and Sugar together till light and fluffy. Beat in the Eggs and stir in the Vanilla. Add the Flour
to the mixture and mix well. Stir in Milk and beat till smooth.

Bake for 30-40 mins at 180 degrees celcius (9x9 inch round pan)

I made 2 cakes for this cake - so above recipe times two!


Fondant Animals


How to make a Fondant Zebra

Fondant Zebra

You need
White fondant
Black fondant
Edible glue

Form head and body out of white fondant. Roll out a piece of black fondant and cut zebra stripes out of fondant. Stick to body with edible glue. Make hair and feet out of black fondant and pupils for eyes.

Zebra from fondant

Fondant zebra stripes

How to make a Fondant Giraffe

Fondant Giraffe

 



You need
Yellow fondant
Brown fondant
Edible glue

Form the head and body with yellow fondant. Make some spots with the brown fondant. Make the circles for the feet and the horns with brown fondant. Stick horns to head with edible glue and spots to body with edible glue.


How to make a Fondant Elephant

Baby elephant from fondant

You need
Blue fondant
White fondant
Grey fondant
Black fondant
Edible glue
Blue Edible marker

Make the head and body out of the blue fondant. Form legs and trunk out of blue fondant. Let trunk dry before attaching it to the head. Form inner ears out of grey fondant. Make baby bib out of white fondant and feet and toe nails out of white fondant. Black fondant for eye pupils.

Fondant Baby Elephant

Elephant from fondant

How to make a Fondant Lion

Lion out of fondant

You need
Yellow fondant
Orange fondant
Black and white fondant
Edible glue
Black edible pens

Form the head and body of the lion out of yellow fondant.
Roll out orange fondant and cut into strips of 1cm. Cut slits into strips. Attach to head with edible glue as mane. Orange for feet.
Use black for nose and eyes and black pen for details.
White for eyes.



How to make Fondant Baby in Baby crib

You need
Flesh colour fondant
White fondant
Blue fondant
Green fondant
Orange fondant
Edible glue
Edible pens

Form baby out of flesh colour fondant, add white diaper with blue pin and blue dummy.
You can make the crib by rolling out long "snakes" of orange fondant. Stick them together with edible glue to form a bassinet.
Make little bunny out of white fondant. Add details with edible pens. I kept it rustic looking, that is why the bunny is not perfect :)
Roll out green fondant and cut out leave shapes with leave cutter, add details and let dry.
Put it all together and put leaves over baby for a blanky.