Cupcakes to welcome a new baby girl…
My husband’s ex-colleague and his wife, who coincidentally just stays a couple of floors below us, recently gave birth to a baby girl who is the cutest little thing.
As they are both really nice and did my hubby and I a favour while we were on holiday, i decided to surprise them by making some cupcakes for them to welcome their new baby girl 
After surfing the internet to get some inspiration, i finally settled on the toppers i wanted for the cupcakes. Next was to decide on what sized cupcakes to make for them.. after considering, i decided to make some little mini cupcakes for them as they would go well with the new baby theme and in addition i thought if they do have friends or family over to visit the new baby, these little cupcakes could be used as snacks for their guest since the mother is still in her confinement period and won’t be able to eat the little cupcakes.
So after deciding on both the design and size of the cupcakes, i now was left with deciding the flavour and of course decided in favour of chocolate cupcakes.. simply cos who can resist a chocolate cupcake right?!
So off i went to make the little toppers which included baby shoes, a bib and baby rattler, a baby bottle and lastly, and what i thought was the cutest, a little baby in a pea pod I dusted the completed toppers with some edible glitter just to give them that extra shine and went on to make my cupcakes.
Deciding that babies are always associated with pastel colours, i frosted the cupcakes with a pale yellow frosting using the grass tip and placed the completed toppers on top of frosted cupcakes. Overall i think they turned out really cute although i think i might have underestimated the size of the mini cupcakes and made my little toppers a bit too small :p The weather was again playing havoc with my frosting so they looked more shiny and were a little droopier as compared to my usual batch. I had decided against adding more icing sugar to stiffen up the icing as i didn’t want the cupcakes to turn out too sweet… but on a whole, i was quite happy with the way they looked
Off my hubby and I went to pass these little cuppies to Alan and Rosaline and had a little visit with their new baby daughter Rachel. She was a delight and so cute! And most surprising of all, very awake and alert for someone who is only about a week old. While we were there her eyes were wide open and was looking all around as she heard our unfamiliar voices.. It wasn’t until about a half hour later before she finally closed her little eyes for a nap. So cute she is! Congratulations Alan and Rosaline on your brand new baby girl!
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