Baby Shower Decor
When you’re holding a Baby Shower one of the most important items that you’ll serve is the Baby Shower cake. Cakes should be the highlight of the food lineup and should be served with a selection of desserts, finger food and cookies. Cakes can come in all shapes and sizes, including baby cakes, diaper cakes and bootie baby cakes.
When you’re planning what type of cakes to prepare for the shower you’ll find many cake cookbooks from which to make your selection. If you know the baby is a girl you can decorate the cake in a pink style. The same goes if the baby is a boy, in which case you’ll want to focus on blue or green colors.
Cakes can be either one large cake, or you can make several smaller individual cakes which can be created for each guest that is invited.
The main focus of cakes is of course the expectant mother. Baby cakes make a great centerpiece that will bring a smile to any expectant mother. Diaper cakes also continue to be popular and are easy to make and assemble.
When you’re planning which cakes that you want to make you can be as creative as you like. There are cookbooks available that feature some great ideas for cakes that you can adapt to fit your theme. If the theme of the baby shower is the alphabet you can find cakes that highlight this theme. There is no limit to the types of cakes that you can choose from for the shower.
Many times the cakes themselves create the theme for the shower. This is because the cakes can be the focus and centerpiece of the entire party. You can plan all the decorations, food and themes around the type of shower cake you decide to feature.
When you’re looking for cake recipes you can find cookbooks in the recipe section in your local bookstore or library. You can also find a selection of recipes for cakes and diaper cakes on the internet. If you can’t find the exact cake that you have in mind for your shower you can make any adaptations that you need to modify the cake to your liking.
Cakes should be as fun and creative as possible. There may be times when you want to hire someone to make the perfect cake. But keep in mind that half the fun of a shower is doing things yourself. Using your imagination, and a little help from cookbooks you can come up with the most amazing cakes imaginable.
There are many different types of cakes that you can choose from or that you can use as a starting base for your own cake ideas. Diaper cakes can often be paired up with edible cakes. This way you have the fun of a cake made from diapers and the deliciousness of an edible cake that everyone can enjoy.
Some themes you might want to use include:
1. Sports theme for boys
2. Princess cakes in pink for girls
3. Jungle animals for boys
4. Fairy theme for girls
No matter what type of cake you take into consideration your final choice should somehow reflect the theme of the baby shower.
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As the host of a baby shower what are you responsible for money wise?
Do you pay for EVERYTHING in full? If there are co-hosts do you you just split it even. Is the mother to be responsible for anything other then giving you names/addresses of those you want to invite?
Does the host pay for…
Invitations?
Cake?
Food and Bevs?
Decor?
Stamps for invites?
I just want to know proper etiquette so I can know what to expect 
Everything!
But you can get things pretty cheap at Party city, even cheaper online.
If you have an Albertons near you, they make the CUTEST ORIGINAL cakes for $40.
Some are shaped like presents, while others are shaped like pirate ships. They have a few Babyshower ones, like one’s shaped like rattles and such. Or you can head to Joanne’s or your local crafts store and my a duckie shaped cake mold and some frosting tips for a piping bag and make your own….it’s super easy!!!!
And for party favors, Joanne’s also has these chocolate molds of little duckies. All you do is melt white chocolate, add yellow food coloring and place in mold and refrigerate and done! It’s SUPER easy and REALLY cheap (even if you have a lot of people coming). You stick a lollipop stick in it, wrap it in decorative plastic and tie a little ribbon around it and its the perfect favor!
Plus, food, Baby Shower Food should be elegant, not like Monday night football. Make some sandwhiches, have a fruit plate and make some punch.
Hope this helps!
Oh, and if you want a really nice invitation, go to Staples…they have blank invitations with little baby feet on top for cheap! Just run it through your printer and voila! Invites!
And a REALLY REALLY fun game to play (cuz that toilet paper game around the belly is kind of embarassing for the mom to be because she doesn’t want people guessing how big she has gotten) is take a bowl of uncooked, white rice, and place 20 baby safety pins (the tiny metal ones). They person gets blindfolded and sits in front of the bowl and has 30 seconds to fish out as many pins as she can. It’s hilarious! It’s alot harder than you think! Buy some nice candles as a prize!
Hope this helps! Good luck!