Cake and cookies come together

During my time in Vancouver, I've been lucky enough to have some great people become a part of my life. One such person has allowed me to not only become a friend, but also a part of her family. We celebrated her baby shower last Sunday and I was honoured to be able to assist in the preparation. This of course meant some baking amongst other things. I was charged with making mini cupcakes so I decided on a funfetti cupcake using the recipe found here, topped with a mini sugar cookie courtesy of this recipe. I baked the cupcakes using vanilla yoghurt and regular milk where choice was necessary. I managed to make fifty-one mini cupcakes using just a single recipe batch and found I needed to bake them for 11 - 12 minutes. For the frosting, I did my usual experimentation in combining icing sugar, butter, vanilla essence, milk and pink colouring to tint for a buttercream variety. For the sugar cookies, I did not add any almond extract, but otherwise followed the recipe as written. I did however make the mistake of adding pink colouring to tint at the end instead of before the dry ingredients. This is why the cookies turned out more tie dyed than actual pink, but cute teddies and feet nonetheless.

I was also responsible for this guy (courtesy of a recipe provided to me) sans the eyes and his ducky friends, which were all done by the guest of honour's best friend and amazing chief baby shower organiser:

What I am most proud of was the candy bar that I got to source and create. Who would have thought that pink candy wouldn't be so accessible, but I had a lot of fun scouring the stores for it and doing a few visits to Party City. I cannot take credit for the tablecloth, white owl, the main candy bar sign or the cookies you can spy. However, the rest was all me with a sprinkling of assistance in set-up from the guest of honour's two adorable nieces.

It was such a lovely shower that took a well-led army to create and pack up, but it was definitely worth every minute of it. We all cannot wait to meet this baby girl!