We're pretty excited.
We had a few people over to participate in the reveal. We got some great baby name suggestions in our baby name jar, the overwhelming vote was for a boy (its like everyone already knew) and we had some pretty fabulous lips and mustache straws for our lemonade.
Out of the 15 cupcakes with white vanilla filling only one had the blue colored filling. And wouldn't you know, Grandma Julie was the one with the lucky cupcake!
How to make tailor-made cupcakes with a filling you ask? Its super easy!
A container of vanilla icing
Food Coloring
A box of chocolate cupcake mix
Marshmellow fondant ingredients: Crisco, 1 lb Powdered Sugar (usually bags are 2 lbs) and 1 bag Mini Marshmellows
After baking the entire box of cupcake mix, I let them cool. Take a 1/2 or 1 tspn and scoop out a small hole from the top of the now cool cupcake. I dropped vanilla icing in each one, and the one that was blue I set a small bit of the vanilla icing aside and mixed it with the desired food color, and placed it inside the cupcake just like all the others. Keep the tops that you scooped out and place them back on each of the cupcakes. I then did a very very light layer of the vanilla icing on top (it helped the fondant stick to the cupcake).
The fondant was easy to make: Melt the half the bag of mini marshmellows in the microwave with about 2 Tbsp of water. (30 secs, stir, 30 secs, stir, until creamy). Once melted pour about 2+ cups of powdered sugar into the mix and stir, until the melted mixture isn't as much sticky as it pulls apart and is powdered well. Lather your counter and your hands with crisco. Knead your ball of fondant like bread for about 8 minutes. If you need to set your fondant aside for a while crisco up your plastic bag before putting your fondant to the side. This fondant recipe made enough fondant to cover 30+ cupcakes.
Once you are ready to put your fondant on your cupcakes, roll it on your crisco'd counter to about 1/8". Use cookie cutters to cut it into your desired shapes. Its got an elasticity to it so you can cover and press it as the topper on your cupcakes or cakes. Waa-laaa!
I think I had just as much fun planning our reveal as I had at it. We loved getting to celebrate with a small group of family and friends. And we're glad our baby boy will be surrounded by familial and friendly support. Here are just a view iphone photos of the event-More to come as I get them!
Our sono-tech kept giggling because our baby boy was a pretty obvious boy. We were glad there wouldn't be any confusion since we had already invited everyone to do the reveal. :) He'll probably be embarrassed if this post still exists in 10 years. Oh well!
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