Ipso Fatto Instant Photos: Cecelia's Baby Shower

I love baking for parties, no matter what the occasion -- but is there anything more fun than baking pink things for a girl's baby shower?  I went to Little Bitts in Wheaton, MD, and picked up a nice assortment of pink sugar decorations -- pacifiers, teddy bears, baby carriages, baby faces, bibs, booties, and safety pins.  I made cupcakes using the recipe for Restaurant Eve's Cake, and tinted the frosting pink. 

I can't believe I never figured this out until now, but I just discovered that if you frost cupcakes in a swirl pattern using a closed star tip (I used a Wilton 2D drop flower tip), you end up with something that looks a lot like a rose.  This technique requires virtually no effort and is perfect for someone like me who couldn't make a frosting rose if my life depended on it. 

 

Congratulations Will and Cecelia!  

Recipe: "Restaurant Eve's Cake" from the April 23, 2006 Washington Post. 

Previous Posts:

• "Think Pink!," November 15, 2008.
• "When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best," March 22, 2009.