Baby Shower Cupcakes

Baby Shower Cupcakes


What you need:

Reynolds® Baked for You Baking Cups (Hearts)
1 package (18.25 oz.) cake mix
1 container (16 oz.) ready-to-spread white frosting
Pink, blue, green, and yellow food coloring
Pink, blue, and brown decorating icing
Yellow and/or brown decorating icing, with start tip (for hair)
Round ring-shaped hard candies (1 per baby)
Worm-shaped chewy fruit snacks (1/2 per baby)
Fruit chew squares (4 per baby block cupcake)
Mini chocolate covered candies (1 per umbrella)
Reynolds Wrap® Aluminum Foil for umbrella handle

Instructions:

PREHEAT oven to 350 degrees F.  Place Reynolds Heart-Shaped Baking Cups on 2 cookie sheets with sides; set aside.

PREPARE cake mix following package directions for 24 cupcakes.  Spoon cake batter into baking cups.

BAKE 20-25 minutes.  Cool.

DIVIDE frosting into 4 bowls, then divide one of the four bowls in half to make a 5th bowl.

TINT the first three bowls of frosting pink, yellow, and blue. Tint one of the smaller bowls of frosting green.  Tint the last bowl of frosting flesh colored (use red and yellow to make peach).

MAKE baby faces

  1. Turn heart cupcakes upside down, so points are at the top.  Frost with flesh-colored frosting.
  2. Use decorating icing to draw on eyes, nos and mouth.
  3. Place hard candy on mouth
  4. Cut a section of a worm-shaped fruit snack.  Form a loop and insert into candy to make a pacifier.
  5. Use a star tip with yellow or brown decorating icing to make a tuft of hair.

MAKE baby blocks

  1. Frost cupcakes with pink, yellow, or blue tinted frosting.
  2. Place 4 fruit chews on each cupcake, to resemble blocks.
  3. Orient cupcakes to look like hearts (right-side-up) and use decorating icing to make block letters (B-A-B-Y) on the fruit chews.

MAKE umbrellas

  1. Turn heart cupcakes upside down, so points are at the top. 
  2. Dividing cupcakes into four different color sections, frost with pink, blue, yellow, and green frostings
  3. Place a chocolate candy at the top point of each upside-down cupcake.
  4. Twist a small strip of aluminum foil to make the umbrella handle and insert into cupcake just above rim of cupcake.

MAKE customized messages

  1. Frost cupcakes with pink, yellow, or blue tinted frosting.
  2. With cupcakes oriented to look like hearts (right side up), use decorating icing in a variety of colors to write messages of your choice.  Short messages work best so a name, "It's a boy/girl", and "Welcome baby!" are all great options