These are cupcakes that I made last night for a coworker's office baby shower. Yeah, we still manage to throw baby showers in the technology sector. I'm really pioneering this whole pink in the workplace thing for Women in Technology ;) There will be plenty of posts about Women in Technology, but for now we need to get on to the delicious world of cupcakes.
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Yellow, plain, naked cupcakes |
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Dressed w/ a whipped chocolate cream ganache frosting. |
Normally I make everything with chocolate... I'm kind of a chocolate freak, but I know that the mother-to-be is a yellow cake and chocolate frosting kind of a girl, so I decided to deviate from the chocolate on chocolate world and go with it :)
I topped them with a whipped chocolate cream frosting. This is always the best part ;)
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Vanilla candy melts A, B, C letters to decorate |
I melted some "candy melts" and wrote out some pink alphabet blocks... surprise, she's having a girl! lol. They made cute baby shower themed decorations... right?
I used some princess tiara cupcake wrappers to make them all pink & princess like. It's kind of my thing ;)
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An assembled cupcake - B is for Baby :) |
Now, for the pregnant part, I baked a chocolate chip cookie into the cupcake. Years ago I saw some idea from Nestle about baking with kids and throwing cookie dough into the cupcakes to make "surprise cupcakes".
When trying to think of something fun to do for a baby shower I thought of this idea and decided that I could use that to make "pregnant" cupcakes. It's pretty easy to do as far as the technique is concerned. You fill the cupcake pan/papers as usual, then place a rounded tablespoon (rolled up) piece of raw chocolate chip cookie dough into the cupcake and push it to the bottom. I smoothed the batter over the top and baked as normal after that. You can use one piece of cookie dough from the prepared/refrigerated cookies in the supermarket.
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Pregnant with a cookie baked inside of it. |
You are so creative! I love the pregnant cupcake idea... and these were beautiful and delicious!
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