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Baby Shower Cake Recipes

Baby Shower Cakes:

Ingredients-

6 oz softened butter
4 oz superfine sugar
2 eggs
8 oz cornstarch (in England this is called cornflour)
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1 tablespoonful milk
Half a teaspoonful of vanilla extract (in England vanilla extract is vanilla essence)
Pink food coloring
blue food coloring

This recipe will make approximately 28 baby cakes in patty cases (The English equivalent to patty cases is paper cases.)

Instructions-

Beat together the butter and sugar until it is of a creamy consistency. Adding the eggs one at a time beat the mixture well. Next add the milk and the cornstarch and beat for a further five to ten minutes.

Add to this the baking powder and the vanilla extract and mix together thoroughly. Divide the mixture in half and put one half in a different bowl.

To one bowl add enough pink food coloring to make the mixture look a definite pink and mix. To the other bowl add enough blue coloring to make the mixture look a definite blue and mix.

Put one generous teaspoonful of the pink mixture into 14 patty cases and one generous teaspoonful of the blue mixture into 14 patty cases. Lightly sprinkle superfine sugar on the top of the cakes then bake for approximately 20 minutes at 375°F

Of course if you know if the baby is a girl or a boy then you can make all the baby cakes blue or all the baby cakes pink.

Baby Sleeping Fruit Salad

(If in season)cut a watermelon 1/2 the way down the center & 1/2 way lengthwise to resemble a carriage stroller, hollow out the watermelon, saving some. Or you can use an oval bowl. Next peel a cantaloupe, and prop it up using toothpicks, cut a small hole out for the mouth & insert a pink or blue plastic binkie (or bottle)depending on the sex of the baby..for the eyes & nose, use colored icing. Pour the fruit salad into the container as the body. Cover with whip cream & coconut. Just before everyone arrives spray whip cream to resemble a bonnet.

Orange slices make cute wheels for the carriage, use your imagination!

Butterfly Baby Shower Cake

Baby Shower Cakes Recipes

Ingredients-

Heart shaped cake pan
Rounded bottom muffin tin
Ingredients for 3 cakes (same or different flavors)
Icing (enough for 3 cakes)
Food coloring, cake decorations
Cardboard
Foil

Instructions-

The heart shaped pan will become the wings of your butterfly, the rounded muffin tins will be the body. Be sure to grease the pans very well. I choose to use the spray that is the grease/flour combined. If you want you can have the entire cake be one flavor or you can make different flavors. For the cake you will see, it has a body of strawberry, and wings of chocolate and white cake.

Prepare all cakes according to the mix. Since you only have one heart tin you will need to prepare the wings separately. All cakes must be very cool prior to starting. Some choose to bake the cake the night before to allow for maximum cooling.

While you are baking or waiting for the cakes to cool, take a large piece of card board, we used he middle t section of a school project board, and cover it in foil. This will be your cake board.

Once the cakes are cooled and your board is ready, you need to level the cakes. To do this take your cooled cake and a very sharp knife (Be very careful!) and take off an jagged edges on the bottoms of the cake. This is more important with the muffin tins.

Baby Shower Cakes Recipes

When you have done this on all of the cakes from the muffin tin, take a small amount of icing and place it on the bottom to secure the cake to the foil covered board. This will keep it from moving around while you're working or during the party.

Remember to mentally plan how you will lay this out prior to securing the cakes.

Choose an icing color and either make it using food colors or buy it prepared. I actually purchased frosting that was whipped and added green food coloring until it was a pale green. I used this for the wings. I choose a pure white icing for the body. I iced the body before placing the wings.

Baby Shower Cakes Recipes

Once the body is iced, you can place the wings. Be sure you've leveled them out and added a bit of icing on the bottom to secure them to the board as well.

After you've place the wings, ice them with your icing. Then you can choose to decorate them a variety of ways. We actually purchased some colored frosted packets and intended to do some intricate designs, but the icing bag broke. We quickly substituted colored sugar crystals which turned out to work nicely. You could also use small candies. We choose to add the eyes and antenna in black icing.

As you can see this cake is easy and fun to make. It was a big hit at our party. You can also do variations on this theme, including using the muffin tins to make a caterpillar. Enjoy!

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