Most people blog about the beautiful dishes and desserts they cook up in their kitchens, well, I'm going to have to blog about my ugly cupcakes...
I'm sure there's a store out there in Paris somewhere dedicated to everything Baby Shower, but since I'm not supposed to be travelling far these days, I went to the supermarket in my quartier. Actually I went to all four of them and just about killed myself looking for anything related to "cute".
Conclusion: your best bet is still probably Monoprix. But not during Christmas season, otherwise you'll have your dose of reindeers, snowflakes, christmas trees, and elves...I know what you're saying, "Elves could do the trick!" I guess so, except they are all green and have beards...I couldn't even find just boring pink paper plates or napkins!!! I should have gotten the hint when I realised I couldn't even get proper cupcake gear at Monoprix. Come on!!! It's Monoprix! You can get anything at Monoprix!
Well no.
I got up bright and early (ok, 9h30...) to make them. Found a nice recipe for vanilla cupcakes, found a video on how to swirl frosting, and headed to the kitchen feeling quite confident....
You must be wondering what on earth that is on that poor cupcake on the bottom right. Well, since I couldn't find any sort of baby shower decor, I decided to garnish them with a few pieces of chocolate chip. That idea was short-lived because I realised it looked more like doodoo than anything else.
I would have whole-heartedly labeled this baby shower cupcake ordeal as an epic fail but there is one silver lining to every cloud: the icing color is 100% natural! It's made from organic beet juice! And these cupcakes actually taste good (none of that nasty beety taste)!
Sorry Baby, yo mamma ain't no good at cupcakin'. But hey! It's the thought that counts ;-)!
Who knows, maybe people will catch on to chocolate-chip-for-baby-doodoo decor on baby shower cupcakes...Spread the word!