justJENN recipes

Inspired by the book ‘Hello, Cupcake!’ I took their slumber party kids cupcakes and made sleepy babies instead.

ingredients:
cupcakes
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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