Baby Shower Cake Decoration Ideas

Baby showers are beautiful occasions for friends and family to participate in the happiness of the expectant mother. Baby showers are usually planned by close friends or relatives of the parents-to-be. If you are planning to have a baby shower party for your friend, you would definitely try it to make it different and memorable. The cake is the most important element in all the baby shower decorations. The traditional chocolate cakes, sponge cakes, carrot cakes or pineapple upside down cakes are the most favored baby shower cakes. But, instead of buying a cake, you can always be creative and bake your own cake. Once you have baked the cake, you need to decorate it. There are several patterns or ways for decorating a cake.

Tips for Decorating Baby Shower Cake

• The belly cake, i.e. the shape of the cake like a pregnant belly, is very famous and apt for the occasion. You can do this with a round cake and sugar icing.
• You can also cut the cake into a unique design such as the face of a baby. Baby shower cakes in the shape of numbers or alphabets blocks can also be made. They are quite simple to make as you only need colorful icing and an icing pen to write.
• If you are planning a baby shower party, decide a theme and decorate the cake according to the theme. If it is a cartoon themed party, you can make the cakes in the shape of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck or Winnie the Pooh. Place a toy on top of the cake, according to the theme.
• Bake a simple square, round or heart-shaped cake; and write names of the new parents-to-be or even the baby. You can even write messages or quotes appropriate to the occasion. Icing pens can be used for this purpose.
• Design the cake with the patterns of babies, sleeping babies, baby clothes and shoes, baby pacifiers, etc.
• Another idea is to make a butterfly cake using two different heart-shaped cakes and 3-4 cupcakes. Colorful and attractive candles of different shapes are available in the market, which can add to the beauty of the cake.
• There are ready-made plaques available in the market that can be used for cake decoration. You can top your iced cake with baby shower themed plaques like teddy bears, toys, angels, ducks, etc. A stork carrying a baby, is the most favored and widely used.

The above mentioned ideas are for homemade, edible baby shower cakes. Apart from these, cakes made of disposable diapers are also prepared for baby showers. The diaper cake is a unique, inedible baby shower cake. You have to roll disposable diapers and tie them with fancy ribbons. Put all these rolled diapers together and tie them with a rubber band. This way you can make a 2-3 tiered cake. Various useful things like baby soaps, shampoos, bibs, etc. can be placed on it. Such a cake is prepared to gift the mother with some of the things required, once the baby is born. You can also place a toy on the top of the cake.

A cake is usually the attraction and the centerpiece of a baby shower party. You just need to be creative and spare some time, to prepare a beautiful baby shower cake. The expectant mother will surely appreciate your work and you are certain to earn a lot of praises.