Babylicious 'Fullmoon' Cupcake Giftbox

I remember I had babies in the days when the best personalisation offered with 'fullmoon' giftboxes are crudely rubber-stamped names of your newborn. I ended up choosing the best-tasting supplier and consoled myself that at least the food inside was delicious.

For the uninitiated,'fullmoon' gifting is an age-old chinese or rather Malaysian-nyonya tradition of announcing the birth of a baby with gifts of symbolic food - red-dyed eggs, 'angkoo' (steamed glutinous rice 'cake' with a mungbean filling), curry chicken and turmeric glutinous rice. Of course modern moms would more than gladly do away with these fattening and not-so-pretty selection in favour of something appropriately pretty and babyish ... thus the cupcake option.

Pretty decorated cupcakes are perfect for baby-themed celebrations. Everyone coos at buttercream prams and booties, babypink fondant blooms and the new symbol of babyhood - the yellow duckie! Perched on top of delicious cupcakes, these are almost too pretty to eat!

So I started to offer it as a 'fullmoon' gift idea to friends and customers ... with a twist. That is to have tradition and beauty in one box! The giftbox thus consists of 4 pretty cupcakes, plus some of the classic symbolic food such as red eggs and preserved ginger, and sweet potato 'angkoo' - all deliciously homemade. Meanwhile, omitting curry chicken diminishes the anxiety over it turning bad if not delivered on time.

Being particular about presentation, I also made sure the boxes had the ideal trimmings and the all-important baby profile card! Basically, everything's handmade with love ... as I would for my own baby. The end results - proud parents are usually thrilled to bits, and many have told me that their lucky recipients totally loved them as well.

These are premium giftboxes, and are priced at rm27 per box (complete with computer-generated baby card with baby pic), minimum order of 10 boxes. For parents who prefer the handcrafted hand-embossed baby profile card with sticker photo as shown, an additional rm2.00 is charged per card.