Strawberry Cupcakes by Wee Bit Trendy

Don't forget that favors can be edible.  Cupcake sticks are sold in Wee Bit Trendy's Store!  You can add mini cupcakes, or full size or even jumbo cupcakes in addition to your food items, even instead of a cake.  Cupcakes make for easier clean up (no cutting a cake), and great for single servings.

We baked 60 mini cupcakes for a baby shower that had a neutral theme.  The colors were blue, white, pink, yellow, orange and green.  All in the soft pastel color perfect for a baby shower.  Since our mommy to be is expecting a girl, we went with strawberry icing. 

We bake our own cake and cookies and cupcakes, but they are very special order for now! If interested, just contact us!

Baby Shower Tips: Planning the Menu

6 things to keep in mind when deciding on Baby Shower Food!  Don't know what to put on the menu? Below are six tips to help you narrow some food choices that are best for the shower you're hosting and mommy to be!

1. How many people are coming?

If many people are coming (15 or more), it would be a LOT of work to plan an entire meal for everyone. Rather, fingerfood, beverages, and appetizers would be perfect. Sandwiches and soups might be a good idea. But if you only have a small group coming (less than 10), then a full meal might not be too much work. It all depends on how much effort you want to put into the baby shower menu.

2. What time of day is the baby shower?
You want your food and menu to reflect the respective time of day. For example, if you have a baby shower in the evening, dinner type of foods would be more appropriate than breakfast foods.

3. What is the baby shower theme?
There are some of the cutest ideas to incorporate your theme into the baby shower food. Click here for some themed baby shower food ideas. Making food to match your theme adds an extra touch to your baby shower that really emphasizes your theme, adds to the atmosphere, and impresses everyone who sees it. This is a party! Food should be fun!

4. What type of people are coming to the shower?
When I say "type" I mean: are your guests more the "BBQ chicken and potato salad" type or "Shrimp platter with vinaigrette salad wraps" type? Know your guests and choose the baby shower menu accordingly.

5. How much time do you have?
Most likely, you don't have much spare time. So, simple is best. Simple doesn't mean plain or boring, it just means choosing baby shower menu items that are easy and fast to prepare. The recipes found above are a great collection of quick and easy baby shower food items to choose from that are simple yet delicious appetizers, snacks, and beverages. Make as many or as few as you think will satiate your guests.

6. Is anyone going to help you prepare the baby shower food?
If there is one area that I would suggest that this be the one! Assigning several other friends or family members of the expectant mother to prepare food will save you a LOT of time and work. Not that preparing baby shower food is hard, it isn't. It's just that you, as the hostess, have so many other things to plan for. So having a few people each bringing one or two baby shower menu items will save you a lot of work. Plus, you won't have to be running around the day of the shower making sure that the food is ready. You can take comfort in the fact that the party food is taken care of and you can focus on finishing everything else!

More Mocktails!

Just a few more quick Mocktail Recipes! We love these, and hope they can make a great addition to your shower!


Mimosa Mocktail Recipe


Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup orange juice

• 1/4 cup chilled seltzer

Recipe:

Pour orange juice into glass, followed by chilled seltzer.

Serve:

champagne flute

Chocolate Martini Mocktail Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup milk

• 3 Tablespoons chocolate syrup

• crushed ice

Recipe:

Place milk, chocolate syrup, and crushed ice in blender. Blend until icy and slushy. Add ice as needed.

Garnish:

Coat the glass rims with cocoa powder or chocolate sprinkles. Top with a chocolate covered cherry.

Glass:

Martini glass

Strawberry Daiquiri Mocktail Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup fresh strawberries, de-stemmed and halved

• 2 Tablespoons sugar

• 1 Tablespoon lime juice

• 1/4 cup water

• 4 medium sized icecubes

Recipe:

Crush icecubes in blender. Add all other ingredients, blend until icy and mixed.

Garnish:

Slice a whole strawberry half-way through and place on rim of glass. Sprinkle with sugar.

Serve:

daiquiri or cocktail glass

Vodka Sour Mocktail Recipe

This Vodka Sour recipe is perfect for sharing with the guys or drinking with Mexican food. It’s simple and refreshing.

Ingredients:

• 2 Tablespoons lemon juice

• 1 teaspoon sugar

• 1/4 cup water

• ice

Recipe:

Add ingredients to cocktail shaker and shake over ice. Strain.

Garnish:

maraschino cherry and lemon twist

Serve:

cocktail glass





Mojito Mocktail Recipe

Break out the chips. This Mojito mocktail recipe goes well with snacks and appetizers. It’s also perfect on it’s own.

Ingredients:

• 2 teaspoons sugar

• 4 mint sprigs

• 3 Tablespoons lime or lemon juice

• 1/2 cup club soda

• 2 dashes Angostura Bitters

Recipe:

Add mint, lime juice, and sugar to the bottom of glass. Crush with muddler. Add remaining ingredients and stir.

Serve:

Collins glass.

Pink Shampagne

This sparkling celebratory drink will add a little spark to any romantic occasion. Serve your significant other a flute over brunch or with strawberries. This recipe makes enough for two.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups Sparkling apple cider, chilled

• 1 1/2 cups Sparkling cherry-flavored mineral water (or club soda mixed with cherry flavoring syrup)

• 1 cup Cranberry juice

Recipe:

Stir all ingredients until thoroughly mixed.

Serve:

Champagne flute.

Baby Shower Signature Drink

For  unique touch to your baby shower, offer your guests a Signature Drink. This can be in addition to your original beverages, or even something your Baby Shower Bartender can serve.

Check out our recipes for mocktails, decide on one that fits best for your guests or your theme and name it!  It's always great to use the name of the guest of honor in the drink title, but below are some quick fun names:

• Baby-tini
• Mocktini
• Preggatini
• Baby Bliss
• Pink Punch

To find a list of mocktails, click here.

Have fun!

Baby Shower Bartender

Wee Bit Tip! Have a bartender at your baby shower!  Sounds a little weird? Not really.  The Baby Shower Bartender serves mocktails (non-alcoholic drinks).  Just put someone in charge of serving the drinks, in addition to punch or whatever other beverages you may serve.

Just stock up with these basic ingredients

• Ginger Ale
• Grenadine Syrup
• Ice
• Cherry
• Lemon Juice
• Lemonade
• Orange juice
• Line Juice

Grab someone to be the bartender

Give them this list

Let them help to keep the guests happy!

Here are a few recipes to get you started!  Also, be sure to check out our mocktail recipes for more drink ideas!  Or even make your own (as long as there is no alcohol) :-)

Shirley Temple Mocktail Recipe

Ingredients:
■1/2 cup chilled Ginger Ale
■1 tablespoon Grenadine syrup
■ice

Recipe:  Stir ingredients, pour over ice.
Garnish:  maraschinos cherry
Serve:  Frosted high ball glass.


Margarita Mocktail Recipe
Ingredients:
■1/4 cup sour drink mix
■splash of lime juice
■splash of lemon juice (or orange juice for a different twist)
■ice
Recipe:  Put all ingredients in blender. Blend until icy and smooth.
Garnish:  Rim a glass with margarita salt. Place a single lime slice on the rim.
Glass:  Margarita glass

Strawberry Lemon Daiquiri Mocktail Recipe
Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup lemonade
• 1/2 cup strawberries
• crushed ice
Recipe: Add lemonade, strawberries, and 5 ice cubes to blender. Blend until slushy. Add more ice if needed.
Garnish: Place a sugared strawberry on the rim of the glass. Add a little umbrella.
Serve: Margarita glass.


Fuzzy Navel Mocktail Recipe
Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup orange juice (fresh is best!)
• 1/2 cup peach nectar
• ice
Recipe: Pour the peach nectar and orange juice over ice. Stir until mixed.
Garnish: Put a single mint sprig in the glass. Put an orange wedge on the rim of the glass.
Serve: Highball glass

Pink Cake Box Baby Shower Cakes!

We are planning a baby shower, and check out the cakes that we have come across for inspiration from Pink Cake Box. These are our faves, but they have tons more....

Check out the "little brown bag" .. we love this cake

Pink Cake Box's cakes have been featured in Modern Bride, Brides NJ, NJ Bride, InStyle Weddings, Bride & Bloom Magazine, Brides Magazine, People Magazine, Elegant Bride, The Knot Magazine, and several other local magazines. Anne has also appeared on two segments for Daily Connections, a talk-show featured on Ebru TV (a new Satellite network), as well as on CNN as a “Small Business Success Story.”

These cakes were also included in the “The Art of Wedding Cakes II,” a special produced by Martha Stewart and WE's My Fair Wedding tv show. Additionally Anne and her staff have competed in two Food Network Cake Challenges and two cake challenges for the TLC network. The team recently won one of the TLC Cake Challenges with their legoland themed cake.

Pink Cake Box, 18 E Main St Suite 101, Denville, NJ, 07834 USA

Make it Juicy! Add a Little Fresh Fruit!

Fresh Fruit
Everyone loves fruit! Fruit is a great addition to any menu, let alone a baby shower! Safe and healthy for guest, especially mommy-to-be.  An affordable way to spruce up any menu!  A great addition that will leave your guests wanting more :).

DIY!

Fruit Kabobs/Swekers
Cut up some in-season fruit and slide it onto some skewers for instant fruit kabobs! Slice and dice! Use cookie cutters to shape the fruit, or a small knife if you're brave!

Pineapple, watermelon, kiwi, honeydew, grapers, cantaloupe, strawberries, oranges...all make for great skewers.


Fruit Bowl
Hollow out a watermelon and fill it with scrumptious fruits.

OR

Present a fruit salad, with all different fruit mixed together.  Makes for great "sauce" when juices mix together.

And as always, you can always search for someone to make them for you, or pick one up at your local supermarket.

Inspiration:

Cakes by Linsay

Surfing the net, I came across Linsay Jarvis' blog "Cakes by Linsay" Linsay got into cake decorating when she was planning her wedding!  Here are some cute cakes she decorated herself!  We loved them so we just wanted to share (as you know how crazy we are about cakes) ... and unlike our diaper cakes... Cakes by Linsay are edible!

Mocktails Recipe: Mock Champagne

Look what we found over at allrecipes.com. When they say they have all recipes, they aren't kidding. This "mocktail" can be an added treat to your baby shower menu. Safe for everyone involved, especially if there are children around, and perfect for mommy to be!

Check out this recipe for Mock Champagne, it good for 40 people!

Mock Champagne
Prep Time: 1 Day 15 Min
Ready In: 1 Day 15 Min

Original Recipe Yield 40 (4 ounce) servings Share

Ingredients

- 2 (2 liter) bottles ginger ale, chilled

- 1 (46 fluid ounce) can pineapple juice, chilled

- 1 (64 fluid ounce) bottle white grape juice, chilled

Directions

To make Ice ring:

Fill a ring-shaped cake pan to 1/2 with ginger ale. Freeze until partially frozen. At this stage you can place edible flowers, or pieces of fruit around the ring. Fill pan with ginger ale and freeze until solid. Place in punch bowl just before serving.

In a large punch bowl, combine 1 bottle ginger ale, pineapple juice and white grape juice.

Nutritional Information

Amount Per Serving Calories: 83

Total Fat: 0.1g

Cholesterol: 0mg

Sodium: 14mg

Total Carbs: 20.4g

Dietary Fiber: 0.1g

Protein: 0.4g

Photo Source & Recipe Source: http://www.allrecipes.com/