It seems that not only is Spring the season for Weddings but also for baby births, at least in my part of the world. It seems some of my friends are having babies and my first reaction to a Baby Shower invitation is “Would you like some Cupcakes?”. I’m a bit lost when it comes to Lamaze or Baby Einstein whatever they may be, but in Cupcake territory I feel somewhat safe. So while everyone talks about Maternity pads, breast pumps and nipple chafing and other bodily occurances, I’ll be the one happily arranging the cupcakes in the corner.

Forgive me for the gender stereotyping here but I feel that I can’t impose just any colours on a baby girl. I love making decorations with fondant, it allows me to shape things in a less messy version of clay. I have seen some great baby booties made in fondant so I set about making some. I had no idea how to shape them and after several unsuccessful attempts I finally figured out how to make a decent approximation of them.

I have a stash of the little pink hearts also in red and white and I love using them wherever possible. Thankfully the weather wasn’t too hot today so there was no risk of the buttercream melting which is always a fear of mine after completing a wedding cake in Mid January where the temperatures reached almost 40 degrees. I had visions of pink booties floating down a Dali-like melting river of yellow buttercream. The cream centre is entirely optional, if you have hot weather or cannot be bothered with that extra part, you could certainly eliminate this step.

I follow the cupcake recipe with a step by step guide on how to make the booties, it’s a cinch once you have the pieces together. The reason why the booties in the pictures below are in purple are because I accidentally deleted the photos of me making the pink booties and all I had left was violet fondant. So you see not everything went smoothly with these although I’ll take a bit of photo deletion over a melting buttercream river any day.

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