My daughter asked me to bake cupcakes for her boss’ baby shower. I asked my daughter what kind of cupcakes she wanted, but there was no real answer other than “she’s having a boy, she likes teal and she’t not a girlie girl.” So….this is what I came up with.
I made chocolate cupcakes and vanilla cupcakes. When they cooled, I colored the buttercream frosting and then put it in the microwave for about 15-20 seconds. This made is somewhat of a glaze consistency. I dipped the cupcakes in the frosting and then put them in the refrigerator to harden a bit.
I got a packet of stencils at the store a while back, and I found some baby stuff on one of the stencils. I could not get the other things to come out in a manner that would be recognizable; so after much trial and error, I decided to make “pitter patter of little feet” cupcakes. I took white buttercream, put it in the microwave for about 15 seconds and then poured it into a squeeze bottle (you could also use a piping bag and a small round tip). I held the stencil over the cupcake and then filled it in with the white buttercream (think Royal Icing on cookies).
I thought they were just about as cute as the day is long…I hope they went over well at the shower.
