Celebrate the new baby with baby themed decorative foods.
If you are planning a baby shower for a pregnant woman in your life, you probably want to make it as memorable and appropriate as possible. Making adorable baby themed foods for the baby shower is one way to do that. Whether you pick a decoration theme based on a certain food decoration idea, or chose a kind of food based on a decoration theme you already have in mind, decorative food adds to the fun at a baby shower.
Instructions
Guest Decorated Cake
1. Frost the sheet cake with the white frosting.
2. Set the cake on a table with the writing icing tubes.
3. Have the guests sign the cake with the writing icing tubes throughout the baby shower.
4. Serve the cake at the end of the shower. Take a picture of the cake as a keepsake before cutting.
Rubber Ducky Cake
5. Frost the entire sheet cake with white frosting.
6. Frost the top of the sheet cake with colored frosting, swirling two or more shades of blue together to mimic water.
7. Set the rubber duckies on the cake.
8. Add lots of white frosting "bubbles" with the decorating tube and round tip to complete the bath time theme.
Alphabet block mini cakes
9. Trim the top of the sheet cake to make it level. Cut the cake in half the short way and layer the pieces together with frosting between the layers.
10. Cut the cake into 12 squares, with sides of about 2 ½ inches.
11. Frost the cake square with a thin layer of white frosting, and put the squares in the refrigerator for an hour.
12. Lightly dust your work surface with cornstarch. Roll a small amount of fondant into a circle. It should be about 1/8 inch thick.
13. Cover a cake square with the fondant circle, gently pressing the fondant into the icing on the cake square. Wrap the fondant around the cake like wrapping a present---fold the excess fondant at the corners toward one of the sides.
14. Trim the excess fondant from the bottom.
15. Decorate the cake squares like alphabet blocks with the colored icing and the decorating tubes.
Bib shaped sugar cookies
16. Roll out the sugar cookie dough.
17.Use the bib shaped cookie cutter to cut out bibs. Alternatively, cut out large oval shapes, then cut a small circle out of one end of the oval to form a bib shape.
18. Bake according to the sugar cookie recipe's directions.
19. Decorate with colored icing and the decorating tubes.
Baby carriage fruit salad
20. Set the watermelon on your work surface with the longer side perpendicular to you.
21. Make a cut halfway down the long side of the watermelon that goes halfway through the watermelon.
22. Turn the watermelon sideways and make a cut through the end that meets the first cut. You should have cut out a fourth of the watermelon. The remainder of the watermelon should resemble a baby carriage.
23. Use the knife to make a zig-zag pattern around the cut edges of the watermelon.
24. Scoop out a cavity in the baby carriage.
25. Slice the oranges to make 4 slices, about ¼ inch thick. Use the toothpicks to attach the orange slices to the baby carriage as wheels.
26
Attach the maraschino cherries to the end of the toothpicks.
27
Cut the rind from the piece you removed into the shape of a baby carriage handle. Secure in place with toothpicks.
28
Cut the assorted varieties of fruit into bite sized pieces. Mix them together.
29
Fill the baby carriage with the fruit mix.
Tags: baby carriage, cake with, sheet cake, white frosting, baby shower, cake square, sheet cake with