Ideas For A Unique Baby Shower Cake
A baby shower is a party usually given for the mother a couple of months or just within a month before the baby’s delivery date is due. This party is usually filled with decorations, gifts and cake. Many mothers to be want to have a unique baby shower cake to mark the occasion. This may be a difficult thing to achieve since baby showers have been around for decades and many baby shower cake ideas have been tried already. A unique baby shower cake design idea may need more thorough thinking as well as some thinking out of the box to achieve.
More Than One Cake
One idea to have a unique baby shower cake is to have more than one cake. The idea is to have two or three smaller cakes which complement each other or go together as a representative of the baby shower motif or theme. An example is that of a baby boy shower in which the cakes are semi spheres made to look like different kinds of balls. Three “balls” are ideal for this kind of unique baby shower cake, and all three should have different colors. There can be an orange basketball, a blue and white soccer ball as well as a white and red baseball. Other balls can also be used to make up this unique baby shower cake.
Other examples for this kind of unique baby shower cake are fish shaped cakes (each with different bright colors and shapes), shoe cakes (ballet slippers, stilettos, pumps, etc) and a group of carton characters. The cartoon characters can also feature each character as a baby shower cake topper for each cake. Disney princesses are ideal for this unique baby shower cake idea. Other carton characters which can be used for such an idea are Precious Moments, characters from the movies Aladdin, Bambi, Lion King and many more.
Cupcakes are also a great idea for a different kind of baby shower cake. A cupcake or muffin stand is a unique baby shower cake design idea which can be very colorful and can supply each guests with one cupcake each. The triangular shape of the cupcake stand serves as the cake shape and shows off each cupcake to advantage. Cupcake toppers can serve as additional decorations for the cupcakes which may also have colorful cups or wraps. The topmost cupcake or even some at the sides cam also feature small sprays of edible beads or edible flowers to serve as decorations and enhancement.
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