3:16 am

Le Petit Prince Baby Shower

Looking for unique baby shower themes for a soon-to-be-baby-boy? We just fell in love with “Le Petit Prince”, or “The Little Prince” storybook for our theme. Growing up, I just loved the book, and reading back to some of the passages really makes me think about my love for my children. While I heard there was a newly released animated film based on the book, I incorporated the original animations from the book in my baby shower. Such a beautiful and captivating story, and the author’s animations are delicate enough to be incorporated into a lovely baby shower.

I almost always prefer cake to cupcakes for all our parties, and saw the most stunning Petite Prince cake on Pinterest while initially planning my son’s baby shower. Although I love a good challenge and try to bake and decorate all our cakes, my husband firmly dissuaded me from trying to make this cake. He knows how much of a perfectionist I am which can be hard to deal with as a spouse I suppose! First of all, whenever I try my hand at a new cake I have to do a demo cake first, and each cake takes at least a week to design, shop for the ingredients and create my masterpieces. Being that I was right around 30 weeks pregnant, I begrudgingly gave in, and let one of our favorite pastry chefs at Conti’s in the Bronx make the cake. Look at the amazing work they did!

And might I add, one of the moistest cakes ever! We decided to have a whipped strawberries and cream tier, and a decadent chocolate-ganache tier. The planet was actually a formed rice-crispy treat covered in fondant of course. Very yummy.

Christina, my husband’s childhood friend who is part-owner at Conti’s Pastry Shop, captured “The Little Prince” perfectly, handwriting excerpts from the story.

Each character was delicately made using fondant, and each star hand-painted with gold.

On to the decor. For the wooden airplane centerpieces, I ordered wood popsicle sticks, clothing pins and beads, painting all parts red. I also added a single red rose in a vase for each table, keeping in line with “The Little Prince” story.

I actually ended up making quite a few of these little biplanes, so added them throughout the catering hall. So sweet!

For the shower favor, each child could take a copy of The Little Prince, and each adult could take an Eiffel Tower can opener. So cute!

I arranged the Eiffel tower bottle openers on a three-tier pasty stand.

In terms of the dessert-table, I actually decided to be a minimalist here. I wanted the cake to really shine, so I kept it simple.

I did, however frame some of the excerpts from the book that I just love.

One quote in particular, “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of shower games, but one I think is just hilarious is diaper changing challenge among the men! Had to do at least a couple games at a shower, even if it is a “sprinkle”.

My husband actually put together a movie for the main entertainment, a mix of childhood videos from when Carl was younger and some of mine. The theme was “what will Carl Dante III be like?” It was hilarious!