Contented Baby Cupcakes

I threw a baby shower for a friend of mine over the weekend. It was a great time to catch up with her and spoil her with this day. It was going to be an afternoon tea and i knew i had to find some form of baby related cupcake to make for the afternoon tea.  I found these cutest cupcakes on the net and i knew i just had to try and make them. 

I found that they were quite easy to make and weren't too fussy to decorate which i was happy about! I made chocolate cupcakes for the base but you could use any flavour. They were a real winner at the shower and i received many comments about them!

Aren't they just adorable??? 

 

(Download & Print Recipe)

Ingredients:
 

Chocolate Cake-
150g Butter
1 ½ Cups Sugar
2 Eggs
1 Tsp Vanilla Essence
1 ¼ Cups Water
2 ¼ Cups Plain Flour
1/3 Cups Cocoa Powder
1 ¼ Tsp Baking Soda
¼ Tsp Baking Powder
1 Tsp Salt

Butter Cream Icing-
125g Butter
250g Icing Sugar
2 Tsp Hot Milk
1 Tsp Vanilla Essence
Food Colouring

Dummies
Musk Lifesavers
Peppermint Lifesavers
½ block Cooking White Chocolate
Food Colouring (Blue, Red)

Dark Chocolate, to pipe facial features


Method 

Cake:

1.    Beat butter and sugar till creamy. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until well combined.
2.    Sift together in a bowl, flour, coco powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
3.    Transfer wet ingredients to a large bowl and carefully mix in dry ingredients and water.
4.    Pour into prepared cupcake papers and bake in 180 degree oven for approx 25 min. Set aside to cool.

Icing:

1.    Beat the butter until light and fluffy.
2.    Sift in icing sugar, milk and vanilla. Beat until smooth
3.    Place in an air tight container until ready to use.

Dummies:

1.    Melt white chocolate until smooth. Divide between two bowls and colour with food colouring to pink and blue.
2.    Place coloured chocolate into piping bags and pipe circles onto grease proof paper placed over a oven tray.
3.    Place the musk life savers into the pink chocolate circles and the white ones into the blue chocolate.
4.    Place in fridge to set.

Assembly:

1.    Cut the tops off the cupcakes if they are too rounded. Ice with butter cream icing all the way to the edge of the cupcake.
2.    Place the chocolate dummies in the lower center portion of the cupcake.
3.    Melt the dark chocolate and pipe the smile, eyes and nose.
4.    On grease proof paper using the dark chocolate pipe small swirls for the hair. Let it set. Place in the top of the cupcake.

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If your serving these cupcakes as part of a "high tea" or afternoon tea for a baby shower i would suggest serving two types of tea. A nice strong black tea always goes down well as part of a afternoon tea and our "Simply Tea" blend suits that. It is a good strong fine leaf blend of Ceylon tea . You can purchase our Simply Tea for $7.00 for 100g or our sample pack for $2 (which make one pot of tea). 

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The second tea which i would recommend serving is our "Vanilla" tea. It is a China and Ceylon tea blended with the finest natural vanilla flavour, aroma enriched by vanilla pieces from Madagascar. How devine does that sound. You can purchase our vanilla tea for $11.00 for 100g or our sample pack for $2.

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