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Make your own Baby Shower cake!

Ingredients

  • 1 (9-inch) round cake
  • 1 plain bread stick
  • 1 roll red Fruit by the Foot
  • 1 tube (.75 ounces each) decorating gels; blue, green, red, yellow, and orange
  • 1 large orange spice drop
  • 1/2 cup light blue jelly beans

Tools:

  • A bread knife
  • 3-inch round cookie cutter or glass
  • 1 freezer-weight zip lock bag
  • 1 small clean paintbrush

Trimming the cake:

  1. Place the cake on a clean work surface. Using the bread knife cut the cake to make the top level. Cut the cake in half crosswise to make 2 semi-circles.
  2. Spread some vanilla frosting on top of one cut side of cake. Place the other piece, cut side down and sandwich cakes together.
  3. Use a cookie cutter or glass to cut 3 scallop pieces, 1 inch deep, along cut side of cake. Transfer the cake to a serving platter.

Frosting the cake:

  1. Spoon 1/2 cup of the vanilla frosting into a zip lock bag.
  2. Spread the remaining vanilla frosting over the top and sides of cake and make smooth.
  3. Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting and pipe and outline along edge of cake. Pipe 5 more lines of vanilla frosting to make even sections on top of cake.

To complete the cake:

  1. Wrap the fruit leather around the bread stick, overlapping slightly, to cover completely. Press the breadstick into the base of the cake to look like the handle.
  2. Press the large spice top at the top of the cake, adding more frosting if necessary.
  3. Use the colored gels and fill in each section on top of the cake with a different color to create the stripes. Use the small paintbrush to help spread the gels evenly.
  4. Arrange the blue jellybeans on the serving platter to look like raindrops.

Serves 12

Jessica Simpson Gets Celeb-Filled Baby Shower

With Jessica Simpson not far from her due date, the singer’s friends and family gathered over the weekend to celebrate her impending motherhood.

Simpson celebrated on Sunday with other famous Mum’s like “Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo, Jessica Alba and little sister Ashlee, People reported. The party was held in Los Angeles and was organized by celebrity party planner Mindy Weiss. “Jessica looked pretty and very happy,”. Another source added, “She’s so excited to be a Mum. She can’t wait to meet her little girl.”

Simpson recently revealed she and her fiancé, Eric Johnson, are expecting a baby girl.

“It was a kid-friendly shower with many of her friends bringing babies,” another source told Us about the fete. “Jessica Alba brought her baby Haven, 7 months, and Ashlee brought Bronx, 3. She received tons of gifts mostly wrapped in pink wrapping paper and boxes. There were several books, stuffed toys and clothes among other items.”

In photos posted online, Simpson is looks great with her wavy hair and braids throughout and wears a blue lizard-print maxi gown with her usual sky-high platforms.

In an interview with Elle, Simpson shared that she wants to pick a name that’s personal and unexpected. In Touch reports that the couple’s top contender is Maxwell, which happens to be Johnson’s middle name and his grandmother’s maiden name. “They’re going to call her Maxwell, Maxi for short,” a source said. “Jessica wanted a name with meaning.”

Jessica has reportedly been wearing an “M” pendant around her neck and had clothes ordered with the name personalised on it. “She’s gained so much weight and the baby is so big that doctors pushed up the date,”. “Jessica and Eric are so eager to meet Maxwell!”

Would you like your pregnancy filmed?

We have been approached by Sky Living TV to see if we know of any expectant Mums who would like their pregnancy filmed.  This would involve filming key moments and preparations such as scans, visiting pre-natal practitioners, decorating the nursery, the baby shower and so on.

If you are interested please contact Simon on 0207034 9681 or email bumps@nutopia.com.

Please let us know if you take up this opportunity.  Good Luck!

Great ideas for your baby shower invitation

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Information to include on your baby shower invitation                           

There is certain information that you must include on your baby shower invitation:

Name of the mum to be – just so that there is no confusion as to who the party is for

Date – the date that your baby shower is to be held on

Time and duration – aim for 3 to 4 hours maximum as mum to be will be exhausted after that

Address – include a map and directions if necessary. If is to be held at a venue you could also include a telephone number and website details

Gift list – if you know that mum to be has a list of items that she wants for new baby you could include some suggested items to purchase as a gift

Surprise – if the arty is a surprise please remember to inform your guests

Sheree Murphy Attends Alex Gerrard’s Baay Shower

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Alex Gerrard’s baby shower was held at the Vincent Hotel in Southport recently. Pregnant actress Sheree Murphy looked radiant as she turned up to celebrate her friend’s Baby Shower. Alex is due in nine weeks and Sheree is a couple of months behind her. The couple compared bumps and the size of their bums! This is Sheree’s fourth pregnancy with former Liverpool player Harry Kewell and third pregnancy for Alex. Sheree is expecting the new addition to the family in January to join their children Taylor, 10, Ruby eight and Matilda, three.