I made these baby full month cupcakes for a baby girl's full moon party celebration. They come in 4 main designs i.e. a baby bottle, stroller, onesie and rocking horse, plus 2 cupcakes with the baby's name and date of birth . The cupcakes are decorated in fondant and are very easy to make.
The celebration was for a baby girl, I chose pink and purple as the main colors. I accented them with green and brown background.
As for the design, I decided on 4 different ones along a similar color theme – a stroller, baby bottle, infant bodysuit and rocking horse. And there were 2 special cupcakes with the baby girl's name and date of birth on them and so I have these 2 made for her:
All in all, this was an easy decorating project. I had the special cutters for the stroller, baby bottle, onesie and rocking horse, so that made it easy for me. All I did was add some deco on these to customize them and the cupcakes were ready.
If you like these cupcakes, you should also check out my other tutorials for baby shower cake, how to make a baby stroller cake topper, princess castle cake, Belle cake design, unicorn cake and doll cake.
🧾Supplies required
- Cupcakes - The cupcakes were a combination of vanilla and chocolate ones. I used my butter pound cake recipe for the vanilla cupcakes and chocolate cake recipe for the chocolate cupcakes.
- Buttercream - I covered all the full moon cupcakes with a thin layer of buttercream before putting on the fondant covers.
- Fondant - I used homemade fondant for this project.
- Wilton food colors in pink , red , moss green and Americolor White .
- Fine tipped cake decorating brush
- Baby themed cookie cutters - these came in 4 different designs.
- Heart plunger cutter
- Triangle plunger cutter
- Alphabet and number imprint mold from Purple Cupcakes (https://www.purplecupcakes.co.uk/)
- Plain round cutter set
- Round scalloped cutter set
- Fondant glue
👩🍳How to Make:
Step 1: Bake the cupcakes and make the buttercream
Once the cupcakes were all baked and have cooled down, level the tops and apply a layer of buttercream on each cupcake.
Set them aside to prepare the fondant covering.
Step 2: Cover with fondant
To start with, cover all the full moon cupcakes with green and brown fondant. Half of the cupcakes are in green and the other half in brown.
Cut the fondant into circles using a plain round cutter. Attach these to the top of the buttercream covered cupcakes.
Next, using the same fondant colors, but this time with a smaller scalloped round cutter, make the scalloped circles.
Attach these to the plain rounds in contrasting colors, with fondant glue. The green ones went on top of the brown and vice versa. Once all are done, divide each set into 4, one set for each design.
Step 3: Make the onesie toppers
Cut the onesies with the cookie cutter on pink and purple fondant. Make equal number of pink and purple onesies.
Attach each one to the cupcakes with fondant glue.
And then, dipped a fine-tipped cake decorating brush into white food coloring (undiluted) and paint white lines for the hemlines at the neck, sleeves, and legs.
And then, using the same brush and white food color, mark tiny polka dots all over. To complete the onesie toppers, I cut out a medium-sized red hearts and attach one to the center of each onesie.
Step 4: Make the baby stroller toppers
This is the second of the 4 baby full moon cupcakes design. Similar to the onesies, cut the strollers with a baby stroller cookie cutter in pink and purple (in equal numbers). Attach to the cupcakes.
Paint the frills in white (using the cake decorating brush and undiluted white food coloring) and attach a little red heart in the center of each stroller.
To finish off the strollers, mark tiny polka dots on the border of the cupcake covering.
Step 5: Make the rocking horse toppers
This is the 3rd of the 4 baby full moon cupcakes design of this project.
And similar to the above 2 toppers, cut the rocking horses in pink and purple fondant (in equal numbers). Attach to the cupcakes.
Next, paint the saddle and the rocker in white. Use the same white paint and add tiny polka dots in the background with the brush.
To finish off the decoration, cut out tiny 5-petal flowers in red fondant and attach them to the rocking horses’ heads.
Step 6: Make the baby bottle cupcake toppers
This is the last of the 4 full moon cupcake designs.
Cut the baby bottles in equal amounts in pink and purple fondant with a cookie cutter.
Attach to the cupcakes with fondant glue.
Next, paint the teats of the bottle with white food coloring. And then add the polka dots in white to the top part of the bottle.
And then add the same polka dots to the edges of the fondant covers on the cupcakes. To finish off the decoration, attach a tiny red 5-petal fondant flower to each of the bottles.
Step 7: Complete the remaining 2 cupcakes with the name and date
Roll some brown fondant thin. Cut out 2 circles with a round cutter (the same cutter used for the rest of the cupcakes). Attach to the cupcakes.
Next, cut out 2 smaller pink scalloped fondant circles.
Imprinted the name and date of birth on each of the pink circles with the alphabet and number imprinting tools.
Attach the pink circles to the brown fondant on the cupcakes.
Make 4 ribbon roses using red fondant and attach 2 to each cupcake. Add green fondant leaves to the roses (cut with an oval plunger cutter).
Also add 2 tiny red hearts onto the cupcakes before finishing off with a circle of tiny white polka dots all around the background.
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