A few months back, I posted
here about some little baby clothes I'd printed for my step-sister's baby shower. Because I sometimes like to make the presentation of special gifts look outstanding, I started shopping for ideas on how to package the gifts.
Cruising
Pinterest, I found several pins about baby shower gift boxes available on Etsy (and other places) made to look like bakery boxes full of cupcakes. (Try
here,
here, and
here for examples.) Since I already several little onesies printed and ready to go, I just needed to buy a few more things to pull together my own cupcake box, which makes a really lovely alternative to the
ubiquitous diaper cake.
Here's how you can put one together, too!
Start with a
window-topped treat box, 3 for $4.99 at Joann (buy them with a coupon, and you'll get 40% off).
Also pick up some
king-size white baking cups. They come in a package of 24 and you'll pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 for them.
You can buy fancy baker's twine here too, but it's expensive. I had some left from a project a couple of years ago, so I just used that. Make your own using
this tutorial, or buy a big cone
here for about $10, to avoid feeling like you're overspending for
string.
At Target, I picked up a three-pack of elastic headbands for babies for about $3. If you're building a cupcake box for a boy, you can use rubber bands or the same twine listed above. You'll also need four pairs of baby socks (or, if you're
really trying to budget, four socks {two pairs} total, but baby socks can be found at
Target or
Old Navy for $1 a pair) and four onesies or baby t-shirts. My cupcakes were made using onesies.
To make: if you're printing your own onesies
as I did, wait for them to dry and heat set them, of course, so you don't mess up your hard work. Fold in the sleeves, then fold each onesie into thirds, lengthwise.
Take a pair of socks (or a single sock, if you'd prefer) and place it at one end of the folded onesie or t-shirt. The toes of the socks will look a little like cherries in the center of your cupcakes, so keep this goal in mind as you roll the socks up inside the onesies. When rolled, make sure the onesie will fit inside one of your king-sized baking cups, then bind with one of your headbands or some baker's twine.
Repeat for all four onesies, then place each inside a baking cup. Place all four cupcakes into your assembled bakery box, then tie the box with baker's twine. Add a tag, and you're ready to go!
This one is packed and ready to ship inside a priority mail box, surrounded by crumpled construction paper.
Happily, you'll have enough bakery boxes, baking cups, and baker's twine leftover for a couple of more gifts, so if you find you suddenly have a baby boom among your friends (or at your office, like we had at mine!), you'll be set to put together a couple of more on short notice.
Of course, I have a couple of other tricks up my sleeve for ways to use these cute bakery boxes. Stay tuned!
(p.s. you can make these photos bigger by clicking on them . . . but you probably knew that!)
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