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Cute as a Button Baby Shower Ideas

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Cute as a button themed baby shower ideas! Chocolate button party favors, coconut cupcakes with buttercream and edible buttons. Perfect for celebrating baby! This post contains affiliate links.
If you like this baby shower idea, you’ll love our April Showers baby shower complete with umbrella diaper cake!
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My friends and I recently hosted a cute as a button themed baby shower for our friend Rachael. It turned out so darling and was super simple to plan. We had games and activities, but I was in charge of the dessert and handouts. I kept it simple by combining them into one element: chocolate buttons!
cute as a button cupcakes
I made a giant batch of molded buttons using a chocolate mold. They take a bit of time, what with waiting for each batch to set up, but they really are easy to make! Chocolate molds are such a simple way to take any dessert up a notch. Check out Ruby’s beach themed birthday cake with chocolate turtles and crabs and our lemonade cupcakes with white chocolate popsicle toppers!

How To Make Cute as a Button Chocolate Buttons

Step 1: Fill disposable candy piping bag 1/2 way with melting chocolates. Melt for 30 seconds in the microwave. Work chocolate bag with your fingers to press and mix melting chocolate. Microwave for an additional 10 seconds at a time, if necessary.

Step 2: Place chocolate molds on a baking sheet.

Step 3: Cut the tip off of the piping bag using a pair of scissors and fill each button hole with melted chocolate.

Step 4: Gently lift the baking sheet and tap it against the counter to even out the chocolate and remove air bubbles.

Step 5: Refrigerate until hardened.

I printed out a design that I made on my computer along with the baby’s birth info. I cut out each tag, folded it in half and stapled it across the baggie just like a bag of buttons that you would find in a craft store. The perfect party favor!

Cute as a Button Baby Shower Coconut Cupcakes

I served our cute as a button chocolate candies on homemade coconut cupcakes. You can add coconut flavoring to a boxed cake mix and it is delicious, but these homemade cupcakes are my favorite. A slightly adapted version of one that I found in Martha Stewart’s cupcake cookbook.
cute as a button cupcakes

Coconut Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting

Deliciously moist coconut cupcakes with rich and creamy buttercream icing. Perfect for a baby shower. Add chocolate candy buttons for a "Cute as a Button" baby shower theme!
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
cool: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings: 22 cupcakes
Calories: 331kcal

Ingredients

Cupcakes

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup packed sweetened shredded coconut
  • 1 1/2 sticks butter
  • 1 1/3 cups sugar
  • 2 large eggs plus 2 large egg whites
  • 1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp. coconut extract

Buttercream Frosting

  • 1 c. butter
  • 1 lb. powdered sugar sifted
  • 2 T. milk or water
  • 1 tsp. clear vanilla

Instructions

Cupcakes

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners. Whisk dry ingredients in a large bowl. Put coconut flakes into a food processor and pulse until finely shredded. Wisk into dry ingredients.
  • In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, and beat.
  • Reduce speed to low. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture in 3 additions, alternating with coconut milk and ending with dry. Scrape sides of bowl. Divide batter among muffin cups, filling each 2/3 full.
  • Bake cupcakes until testers inserted into centers come out clean, about 20 minutes. Let cool in tins on wire racks.

Frosting

  • Place ingredients into a mixing bowl and beat. Scrape sides, then continue beating until smooth.
  • Frost cupcakes.

Notes

Cupcakes will keep, covered, for up to 3 days, or freeze for one month.

Nutrition

Calories: 331kcal

This post is a refresh of a post originally shared in 2010.

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About Brandy

Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

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  8. Patti says

    Great post…love the button idea and I just went to that website and ordered a few molds…your cupcakes look so yummy and I love the favor idea!

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  15. Jessica says

    What a great idea. Those cupcakes look delicious and I love the chocolate buttons.
    All of the girls I visit teach right now and my partner are all pregnant with boys and I am going to throw them a shower in April and this would be perfect. I have a daughter and I don’t know much about boy things. Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂

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  20. kirstin & jordan says

    these are fantastic! I threw a ‘cute as a button’ baby shower a couple years ago and those favors would’ve been a perfect accent! maybe I’ll throw another one… 🙂
    we have a friday fun find party- if you’re interested, we’d love it if you’d link up tomorrow!

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  30. Alison says

    Hey Brandy~

    So i have been looking at A LOT of baby shower ideas but I just keep thinking about yours. I LOVE it!! I am wondering if you would be a guest author for Baby Week and feature this shower?? What do you think? If you shoot me an e-mail at [email protected], then I will send you all the info. THANKS Brandy. I have been looking for a guest to share a fun baby shower idea!

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  33. Robin says

    Holy Cannoli Girl!!!!
    Those cupcakes look gorgeous and scrumptious…and the buttons are the BEST party favor I’ve ever seen! They’d be darling for a little girls birthday party as a take home!!!!
    You’re soooo inspiring me. Thank you!
    xo
    Robin

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