Sleeping baby cupcakes
Shh…the babies are sleeping. Under blankets made out of Starburst. Now those are sweet dreams.
ingredients:
cupcakes (I like to use Brown Sugar cupcakes – recipe, here.)
frosting
mini nilla wafers
little heart sprinkles
melted chocolate or black frosting
marshmallows
starbursts
Bake cupcakes and frost them. I’d say a dozen is manageable. Don’t do 3 dozen like I did or you might go insane.
Then lay out the mini nilla wafers and put some frosting or melted chocolate in a bag with the end cut out, or in a piping bag and pipe the faces. You can also used the premade crap in the tube which worked out well for me – as I was under the gun, time wise. A tiny dollop of frosting will hold the heart sprinkle in place which will be the mouth.
I found that hair really made these stand out, so some babies were bald, some had hair. They all looked sleepy and happy.
Cut the marshmallow in half and lay them in a ‘T’ formation. One side will be the pillow for the head, the other will be the body under the blanket. Use another dollop of frosting to glue the nilla wafer ‘heads’ down.
Now the blanket, again, a dozen shouldn’t be that bad, but a mass quantity – and it was kind of a headache. Take two matching Starburst colors and melt them in the microwave for 5 seconds. Then between two sheets of wax paper or plastic wrap, roll out the Starburst into a square, cut to fit the size of a blankie for the baby. Use an alternate color to do the top of the blanket. You can use crafting scissors to make the nice blanket edges. Clean ones, of course.
Again use frosting to hold down the blanket. You can add even more decor on the blankets, or add teddy grahams as bedtime buddies. These things are really adaptable.
They are impressively cute at parties and surprisingly not that much work, just some assembly time. I am trying to think of other parties to make these for, just because they were so fun. Try it! If you do make them, I’d love to see yours!!
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My oldest child is looking at this and saying “I want to eat the baby” while laughing an evil laugh, LOL! Seriously, I have a lot of respect for people who have the patience to do this. I made choo choo train cupcakes that involved tootsie rolls once, years and years ago. I’ve never wanted to repeat the experience. These are really cute though. They would be a fun Sunday School project.
I made them- they turned out great!
http://simplymade.blogspot.com/2008/09/baby-cupcakes.html
Someone at the party we made them for warned us that starburst can blow up in the microwave if you’re not careful though- that’s one mess I don’t want to clean up!
I’m making these tomorrow. I’ll let you know how it turns out. My son’s teacher is having triplets, can you believe it?!?!?!
these are so cute,my daughter made them for a sleep over and they loved them
Sooo cute I love this idea. Thank you.
I used Make-My-Baby.com to see what my baby would look like. I just uploaded a picture of me and my husband and done.
I went to a friends baby shower yesterday. Your blog was the first place I came to for recipe ideas! I made the sleeping babies, just the face on the top though. An idea which I thought I saw on your blog but can’t seem to find anymore.
Thanks!
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